Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[slick4591]

Thanks. That was pretty much my guess and I guess I needed to hear from someone else. I would have felt better about if it had been one of the Ameraucanas because I have plenty of them and they are still laying. The Marans have stopped laying and I was hoping to get my dark egg project off to a good start before they stopped. The good part of this is the other two have hatched and are doing okay.

 

[pinkchick]

Slick~
Merry Christmas to you too!

Sorry to read about your chick. Sometimes they pip the vein and bleed out and nothing can be done about it and it is sad. I have also seen a chick pip a vein and bleed an amount that I thought for sure would have done it in, but to my surprise the chick makes it. I don't know why it happens, but when it does I tell myself that this chick just wasn't meant to be and try to reassure myself that it was something I didn't have control over.


Are you going to be hatching again anytime soon?

 

[slick4591]

When these are finished a dozen of my SLW's are going in primarily to check for fertility. If it's good then I'll hatch what I have. If not, I'll probably wait because all my fertile lavender eggs have been spoken for until the 5th and I don't see a need to hatch any more splits. Wished I could get a fire lit under my Marans.

 

[pinkchick]

Thank you Zanna and a very Merry Merry to you too! Hope you have an AWESOME day!

I enjoy this thread and contributing back what I have learned from everyone here. I have learned the very little bit of what I know about Marans and chickens from this thread and BYC, this place is the greatest! I hope to learn more and more and more from all of you fine Marans and BYC folks!

 

[math ace]

. Wished I could get a fire lit under my Marans.

X 2....

Vicki, One of my sisters shares your birthday

Zanna, thank you

for the kind words.

 

[gilavina]

Yay, got a 400 lumens flashlight for my birthday and already spent a bit of time adapting it to a candler. I'm excited to try it out on both the Marans eggs and Ameraucana eggs.

 

[gilavina]

X 2....

Vicki, One of my sisters shares your birthday

Zanna, thank you

for the kind words.

yay!

 

[flgardengirl]

Merry Christmas to everyone and happy belated birthday to Vicki!
My Christmas hatch started last evening and a first happened to one of my three Marans eggs. When the thing pipped blood started running down the egg. I watched it for a couple of hours and when there was no movement I opened it. The chick was dead and there was a fair amount of blood on the inside. Haven't seen this in my limited experience and I gotta figure there was nothing I could have done, but does anyone have an idea what might have happened?

If you want to chance opening the bator and opening up the egg a little you can put cornstarch on the vein and hopefully stop the bleeding. I have saved a few that way.
One of my lavender silkie chicks had pipped the vein and I thought for sure that one was a goner due to the amt of blood, but since I wanted lav silkies bad- I did the naughty and opened the bator and peeled the shell a little to visualize the vein and put some cornstarch on it and it worked! I did another one since then and it turned out okay too. I don't know it it will always work but if it is bleeding really bad then its worth a try especially if they are gonna die anyways. It also works on the chicks with the really bloody, actively bleeding umbilicus- just dab a little on the umbilicus. Sometimes you have to do it a couple times to get active bleeding to stop.

P.S. Happy Bday Vickie!!
~Merry Christmas Marans folks!~

 

[gilavina]

If you want to chance opening the bator and opening up the egg a little you can put cornstarch on the vein and hopefully stop the bleeding. I have saved a few that way.
One of my lavender silkie chicks had pipped the vein and I thought for sure that one was a goner due to the amt of blood, but since I wanted lav silkies bad- I did the naughty and opened the bator and peeled the shell a little to visualize the vein and put some cornstarch on it and it worked! I did another one since then and it turned out okay too. I don't know it it will always work but if it is bleeding really bad then its worth a try especially if they are gonna die anyways. It also works on the chicks with the really bloody, actively bleeding umbilicus- just dab a little on the umbilicus. Sometimes you have to do it a couple times to get active bleeding to stop.

P.S. Happy Bday Vickie!!
~Merry Christmas Marans folks!~

Thanks Lynette!

I miss chatting with you! Gonna be collecting eggs here soon to start setting them. Hoping the birds get the memo and keep up the laying!

 

[slick4591]

Thank you! Hopefully, that never happens again, but if it does I now know what to do.