Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Mountain Mel]

Boy, there isn't much activity here anymore...I left & the place turned into a ghost town!

But seriously...I just sold ALL my chickens!

Now I need to get 'on the stick' and find some quail eggs to stick in Pinkchicks' 'bator.

I would like to get Bobwhite, California Valley, and Texas Blue Scale. I'm thinking about 30 eggs from each for a total of 100 eggs, hoping that out of 100, I might get 75 live fuzzballs.

I sure miss all my friends from BYC

...I had some fun times in this forum

. Maybe too much fun sometimes.....

 

[Wynette]

Hiya, Mel! Why'd you get rid of all your chickens?

Good to see you online!

 

[Mountain Mel]

I wanna raise quail & pheasants for a couple of years just to turn loose and populate my part of the river bottom. That, and I got tired of buying feed for chickens that were not producing!

 

[Wynette]

Gotcha. This is my least favorite time of year for raising chickens since they aren't putting out any eggs. I do not believe in using lights on them, personally. So, I'm lucky to collect 3 eggs from...geesh, I don't even want to say how many hens!

I'm really looking forward to the days getting a wee bit longer in the way of sunshine all the time now...

 

[Mountain Mel]

Me too!

 

[Raven1]

HI Mel!!

 

[Mountain Mel]

Hello, Raven

Good to see you here....

 

[Keara]

Your wrong Mel... chickens always produce! Just sometimes it's not eggs, sometimes they produce BBQ!

 

[KingR0o5t3r]

lol true

 

[Mountain Mel]

They were too nice of birds to BBQ....

One of them was a gorgeous XXL Blue hen that came from one of Pinkchicks' huge prize Roos that she had back in 2010 or 2011. (mine were born in 2011).
I wish I had been able to take pics before they left today.

After a few months with no Roo to ride them, their feathers are in perfect condition.