Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Debbi]

Boy, I sure hope they hatch, for you and the chick's sake. Going by the experience with my lone "Pip", I would almost rather see none hatch than just one. That is unless you have another clutch due to hatch sometime close to the loner's. Poor Pip was five weeks younger than the first clutch, and 5 weeks older than the one after his. He STILL has no friends in chicken land. Even the younger ones run him off. I wonder if they will ever except him?

 

[flgardengirl]

Sometimes the chicks in the eggs will respond to metal grating sound. I found this out on accident because I keep my bator on a metal low little table (tall enough so my baby-crazy pomeranian can stand on his hind legs and look in the bator or he will whine forever once he hears chicks..and he usually hears them way before I ever do so I usually know they are coming.. lol)
I have tubing running in the bator for adding water and I clamp off that tubing with hemostats. I accidently scraped the hemostats on the table and it makes a loud grating noise that probably vibrates a little. So when I did that the chicks usually rock or peep in the egg lol. I also whistle into the bator at them once they pip the egg and they will chirp back and sometimes crack thier egg more . Dh thought I was crazy till I made him do it and they responded to him lol.

 

[Debbi]

Ha! I whistle to mine too, and they do respond! I didn't see anything wrong with that, but try to explain that to non-chicken folks, and they think you've lost your mind!

 

[pinkchick]

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That's what they think......truth is, I didn't loose mine.....I know exactly where I put it, but with age sometimes the memory fails and now I can't remember!!!!!!

 

[Debbi]

Yup! That's what I call "controlled chaos". Everything is right where it's supposed to be...if I could just remember where the right place was!

 

[sewandgrow]

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OK Ok, twist my arm

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Your eggs are great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can only dream............LOL

 

[snowbird]

This morning reading some of the comments on the Marans thread and something dawned on me, The reason many are not going to worry about breeding to any kind of Standard is that most of the Marans have so many faults that it will be vertually impossible unless someone comes along with some info. to make it easier to breed them to standard. It would be much easier to just breed them to produce a large DARK egg. To compound this the APA could care less what color of egg they lay.

I can breed them to TYPE with no problem but the problem is with the colors that have been infused over the years. I believe I also can breed a few of the BC to color by the Standard. I can breed the wheaten female to Color and Type. I really do not know what to do about the Wheaten Males.

If anyone has any ideas now would be a good time to let everyone know. Thanks, Don

Walt will be back on monday and maybe will have some info. on the white wing and tail from the Standards committee. Don

 

[sewandgrow]

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Me to Illia.......I am sitting here practically drooling.......LOL

 

[sewandgrow]

I'll tell you if you don't keep up on this thread on a dailly bais (which I almost always do) it is brutal trying to catch up................ I have been so busy decorating the egg ornaments to get ready for Christmas Eve's dinner & ornament giving that I fell behind for just a day or 2 .................. Wow...Now I just can't seem to catch up & it's time to get back to the eggs again......LOL.
Love all those dark dark eggs you guys & gals are getting.
Karen in California

 

[geebs]

Snowbird.... that is quite and apiphany... I just keep in mind they are supposed to be dual purpose.. so they have to be hunky..

I am not a seller of eggs but I am an egg monger!! I do love those dark eggs...