Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[snowbird]

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Kim, No I was just saying on one of the Blue standards you can have ONE white feather and no penalty. It is funny about culling the males birds, I culled close to 300 this year of just males, and the few I kept should of been culled also. If only some of the people with the good ones would sell us some. Don

 

[Organics North]

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Kim, No I was just saying on one of the Blue standards you can have ONE white feather and no penalty. It is funny about culling the males birds, I culled close to 300 this year of just males, and the few I kept should of been culled also. If only some of the people with the good ones would sell us some. Don

Do they exist, or are they only in our imagination?

Geebs... More shots of Charles? His front side looks nice yes?

ON

 

[pinkchick]

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Squeezing every one out of them I can Becky! Thanks for taking them and test hatching for me, I know we have been talking about this for quite some time now. Thank you for your patience. Will be watching your hatch like a hawk so that I can start filling everyone's requests. Your a doll and Thank you again. Good luck!

To all of my Marans friends......let's get Becky some AWESOME hatching vibes going on. If all goes well with her test eggies I will finally be able to start on the list that many of you very fine folks have been so patiently waiting on and a very big Thank you to all of you for your patience too!!! You guys and gals here in the Marans thread mean the world to me! You're all the best!

 

[Raven1]

I got all three of my bators out and disinfected them this last weekend and they are warming up all the turners are still working and yeah with all the great Marans folks rootin for them we have to have a great hatch Kim

Are you hatching for NY?

 

[Organics North]

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Squeezing every one out of them I can Becky! Thanks for taking them and test hatching for me, I know we have been talking about this for quite some time now. Thank you for your patience. Will be watching your hatch like a hawk so that I can start filling everyone's requests. Your a doll and Thank you again. Good luck!

To all of my Marans friends......let's get Becky some AWESOME hatching vibes going on. If all goes well with her test eggies I will finally be able to start on the list that many of you very fine folks have been so patiently waiting on and a very big Thank you to all of you for your patience too!!! You guys and gals here in the Marans thread mean the world to me! You're all the best!

Ahhhh... I seeeee

I am defiantly tuned!!

Good hatching vibes going your way Raven!

Pics please... Can we see the eggs when you set them?

Pink, so what is this test hatch... Blues and Blue Coppers???

ON

 

[pinkchick]

ON~ All blue coppers and a few splash copper eggs.

She is going to see how they do after shipping, I am curious about hatch rate after travel. The last person I shipped eggs to has not repsonded as promised, so another try is in order. She is getting a whole mix of eggies( just before packing I gave them an ever so light and gentle brush with a fingernail brush that I can sanitize after using it in between different batches of eggs). Some Wellie eggs, some Olive Eggs and some Marans eggs. I can post a photo of them now before they leave my house and I will patiently waiting to hear back from her about how they appear in person vs the photos of them. Warning...they are lightening up a bit. Some of the girls haven't laid an egg in over a week now. Dadburnit....I really wanted to get her some of Bill's big blue dtr's eggs, but did I get one? Not! Stingy Stinkers!

 

[Chef]

Beautiful eggs Pink! I saw those eggs and it reminded me that my newest splash girl started laying for me and color is much better than moms. First pic is of gen1 splash egg and second pic is from her daughter. First 2 pics are in the sun. I have gotten a couple more eggs and they look just as good. One of them has some dark speckles.

Here is a pic with the flash

Chef

 

[Organics North]

Thanks pink...

Chef... awesome! any step in the right direction is a good one!!!

ON

 

[sewandgrow]

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Unfortunately there are no Marans eggs to do. My meager group of Marans stopped laying some time ago & up to then I was trying to hatch most of what I had. I did however take a picture of my BCM rooster & did a drawing of it & shrunk it fit the a goose egg size & am working on one of those but I am not happy with it yet & I am so unsavvy when it comes to compurters that I don't know how to post pictures on the forum & can only do that directly on email. I wish I could find a good line drawing of a BCM with proper conformation & I could work with that. I have been playing with the paint colors trying to get it right from the photo I took.

 

[math ace]

I would rather get advice from my trusted friends on the Marans thread than
post this question on the emergency and illness forum - - -

So, here is the question:

Does anyone have experience with bumblefoot ?

I have a hen that I have been working with for 2 - 3 weeks and I don't seem to be winning the battle with bumblefoot.

We soaked the foot in water with epsom salt. We removed the scab and removed the bumblefoot. We got lots of thick puss out.

We did the iodine rub, neosporin packed in the abysis and then bandage the foot. We soaked her foot in epsom salt and repeated the iodine, neosporin, and bandage process nightly for a few nights.

We thought she was on the way to healing and released her to the flock. My bad - - should of waited. We checked her foot after a few days with the flock and it did not look better. We brought her back inside and did the whole thing over again - -
soaked, iodine, removed scab - - - just a little puss was found this time - - iodine, neosporin, re-pack.

This time I used tylan 50 right in the wound and put her on a 3 day dose of it orally too. Also, soaked, iodined, neosporin, and rebandaged.

She is eating, drinking and laying eggs. SQUAWKS her head off about being separated from the flock. She is a very naughty leghorn who does not believe I should be messing with her!

NOW, I have started Duramycin. She has been on it 2 days. We looked at the foot tonight and it seems hard under the scab. I don't want to open it again it I don't have too.

ANY ADVICE ? ? ?


By the way, this chicken has taken to covering herself up with the mulch in the dog carrier that I keep her in at night. Have you ever seen a chicken pick up mulch piece by piece and throw it on her back ? ? ? Any idea if that is an "I'm content" or "I'm stressed" message ? ? ?