Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[LONDON HENS]

I have finally purchased some blue and black copper Maran hatching eggs this week and they are now under a broody!

Have always wanted Marans so hoping its good news in 3 weeks!

 

[Wynette]

BEST of luck, London! WE LOVE PICS...

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

I have finally purchased some blue and black copper Maran hatching eggs this week and they are now under a broody!

Have always wanted Marans so hoping its good news in 3 weeks!

Lovely dark eggs!

 

[lianamac]

Where did you get those eggs??!!

 

[justoldbobo2]

I have finally purchased some blue and black copper Maran hatching eggs this week and they are now under a broody! Have always wanted Marans so hoping its good news in 3 weeks!

Those are some beautiful eggs. Hope to try my luck at hatching some sometime soon

 

[LONDON HENS]

Where did you get those eggs??!!

Hey!
I got them from copperblack1011 on eBay here in the UK

 

[bardies]

I recently got some lovely dark marans eggs, and want to set them in the incubator - but I honesty cant tell which end is up! I hope that the seller set them into cartons correctly. I tried candling to look for the air cell, but can only see it on a few. I thought about floating them, but don't want to harm the bloom. PLEASE any ideas?
I am terrified of trying to hatch an egg upside down!

 

[gander007]

I recently got some lovely dark marans eggs, and want to set them in the incubator - but I honesty cant tell which end is up! I hope that the seller set them into cartons correctly. I tried candling to look for the air cell, but can only see it on a few. I thought about floating them, but don't want to harm the bloom. PLEASE any ideas?
I am terrified of trying to hatch an egg upside down!

Yes they do not tend to have the regular egg shape but if you just sit for a tome you will start to see that one end is smaller then the other and the shipper is probably use to looking at them and put then in the egg carton with the pointy end down and if you look at one end they might have even been marked with a pencil telling you the type of egg it is ........

Happy hatching these are a fun chicken to have .......

 

[gander007]

I have finally purchased some blue and black copper Maran hatching eggs this week and they are now under a broody!

Have always wanted Marans so hoping its good news in 3 weeks!

You have some very nice looking egg's there

Happy hatching

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

I recently got some lovely dark marans eggs, and want to set them in the incubator - but I honesty cant tell which end is up! I hope that the seller set them into cartons correctly. I tried candling to look for the air cell, but can only see it on a few. I thought about floating them, but don't want to harm the bloom. PLEASE any ideas?
I am terrified of trying to hatch an egg upside down!

Super dark room, let your eyes adjust, and you'll be able to see the aircell with a good candling light.