Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[lwarctic]

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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!

Becky,

Good hatching vibes going your way from Idaho, be sure you let us know how they travel and we want photos too.

Les

 

[geebs]

eWow busy bees... Gosh where to start...

Ruth has posted a thread on Bumblefoot...I don't know what more to do

Congrats Raven on the eggies!!!!

More pictures of Charles... Okay.... ya don't even have to twist my arm...I just love to look at him.

It was windy out...

 

[math ace]

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When I was researching the problem there were many comments about how the threads on bumblefoot have been removed

Thanks anyways geebs

Maybe somebody else will chime in this evening with some advice.

I suspect this naughty girl got a blackberry thorn in her foot one day when she flew over our fence for the free range area and decided the grass was greener on the other side of the fence !

 

[Ivywoods]

I had never seen a case of bumblefoot, but I read the thread on it, and is seems like you are doing all you can do. I have an aerosol spray can of stuff...nitrofuro-something... can't find the can right now in the dark, but that stuff seems to work wonders. We had a boer goat that knocked a horn off right down to the skull. It was during the summer, and in no time his head was full of (gag!)

maggots clear down to his eyeball. We sprayed that stuff in there and the maggots evacuated like they were on fire, and the wound healed after spraying it one more time.

I've been having a BCM chick (one of the 3 I just hatched 12/1) that keeps getting a poopy butt. I've cleaned his hiney several times, so I did a search on this site for threads on poopy butts. Someone suggested putting vaseline on it's rear so the poop would slide off.

After cleaning his caked up bung, I smeared vaseline on with a Q-tip. I watched......

..... next time he pooped it slid off slick as a whistle.

After continuing my watch, I noticed that he was not happy with the sticky vaseline on his rearend, and was trying to peck at it. I was afraid others might join him on his mission, and sure enough... the other two wanted a taste. Their taste-test proved to them that they did not care for the taste of vaseline, and that was that.

Hopefully, this little story ends here.

 

[math ace]

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Oh where do I start with this post ? ? ?

LOL

Slick as a whistle LMAO

Hopefully, the story does end here !


Nitrofuro-something - - - When the lights come on and it warms up - - - try to get me the full name of that stuff.
I am hoping I am not the only one with a Naughty girl that likes to go places she shouldn't i.e. The blackberry patch!

I wish I knew more about antibotics

I wonder if the vet that comes to treat my pot belly pigs would treat the chicken at the same time? ? ?

I don't mind treating her and doing all this soaking as long as I am doing the right thing. . . but I would hate to find out I made the situation worse through my ignorance

 

[Tala]

I got me a new BCM roo (cockerel really...hatched last May) last weekend. I really really liked my squirrel tail guy - except for the squirrel tail part

so I sprung for another roo. Can't believe I BOUGHT a roo on purpose LOL
I'll hafta get some pix of him up soon. Perhaps in the spring I'll be having some BCM babies!!

 

[haTHOR]

so my FCBMs have been laying a bout a week, and today i got an ENORMOUS egg out of my mossy...picture HUGE (twice the size of the other pullets' eggs), and heavily speckled...just makes me love her more. i know i have said before i am in this for a utility bird with big dark eggs being the first priority...looks like i have a great girl for working on those qualities. exciting! will have to get a pic.

 

[Ivywoods]

Hubby just got home with a new bulb for the flashlight, so when I go out, I will see if I can find that can. It's almost empty, and we tried to find some at Orscheln's last time we were there, and they didn't have any. I'm not sure where he got it, but maybe it's something you can order if it's not available locally.

Okay.. got the flashlight working. Scratch the "nitro" part. It's Furazolidone aerosol powder.
Active Ingredient Furazolidone 4%.

It says it's for horses and ponies. We used it on that goat, and he healed up very well. I also used it on a hen that had a hole pecked about 3/4 inch deep just ahead of her tail. I figured she would die. She has done well, too.

I am wondering if perhaps you need to open the hole on the bumblefoot a little wider. I'm pretty sure stuff like that has to heal from the inside out, and if it scabs over, it just creates a pocked for infection.

There. That advice is probably only what you paid for it.

 

[math ace]

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Good Advice - - -

I did some research on this antibotic and found that it specifies that it is effective against staph.

So, I am trying to find the product locally. . . I HATE to open the sore AGAIN unless I am going to do something different than I have been doing. From the previous bumblefoot threads I read, it did not sound like they had to keep the wound open all the time. The last time I opened it I got blood out, but no puss. I THOUGHT that was a good sign, but it is scabbing over and developing a tough spot under the scab

I am AFRAID that I will make it worse my re-opening the wound every few days

 

[xyresicchick]

So I have been searching for bantam marans for some time with no avail. And naturally because of this I am entertaining the thought of sometime in the future possibly attempting to breed some bantams.

I am wondering what bantam to cross it to in order to get the size down first. I was thinking a serama roo would get the size down VERY quickly... but I also do not know if this cross would even be possible as seramas are such tiny birds in contrast to LF marans.

Any opinions on this? I am most interested in Golden cuckoo marans but i am interested in the dark eggs from wheatens more than just feather color. I have no idea where I would even begin if I DID begin... But I have spoken to many other people about this and a lot of them are very very interested in bantam marans as I am so any info would probably be helpful to all.