By the way lady, you were close, this was Big Boy's son heehee
Sounds like a good day. I felt like a chicken with its head cut off
I need to get pics of that chick.... and order those leg bands... maybe I will do that now
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By the way lady, you were close, this was Big Boy's son heehee
There's nothing quite like finding your first dark Marans egg. Congratulations! It looks very pretty. I still get flutters everyday to see what my girls left me.
I had them too my "lines" are Wade and Davis and the ones that have more Wade tend to have the spot and the hens are too dark and lots of the Wade/Jeanne stuff has wheaten I'm always culling for too much red in the breast so I never noticed if that was one of the culls later or not just kept the hen she lays dark eggs and now 2 years old has a nice necklace the other one stayed dark so she's gone she did lay a nice egg.
Good Luck with your hatch! We ended up with 19 eggs due tomorrow out of 67 eggs set- not the greatest but we'll take what we can getWell, just did my last candling on the current batch of eggs and 95 are set to go into the hatcher on Saturday night. Some weren't fertile mostly because some of the girls hadn't been in with the males I put them with for very long at all. I'm not unpleased with what I have. 36 of those birchen eggs from Kansas are looking really good, so am very curious to see what I end up with. Now lets just hope they pop like popcorn!
I hear ya, I got to thinking that some of it may have been the extreme temps we had as well and the starting collecting three weeks out from when I set the eggs. Besides having just moved the girls in with the males, I think it still is a decent start. The hatching may be another deal, who knows. I did see where it looked like some of the chicks were developing slower than others, so may be a drawn out hatch, not sure.Good Luck with your hatch! We ended up with 19 eggs due tomorrow out of 67 eggs set- not the greatest but we'll take what we can get
Yeah, 2 1/2 mos seems really early to me. I've had a couple of pullets that didn't show the copper til about that mark though..and also had a couple that had mossyness and cock's with more in the breast but it did molt out. This is my first time having them though, with all of the reading I've done I do plan to wait out the males til about 18 mos just because I've read sooo many folks opinions/experience has proven to benefit them for waiting. Not to mention though I can't imagine getting much meat off a 2-3 mos old... JMOToo much red in the breast indicates Wheaten influence, is that correct? I just went through all my youngsters that are big enough to see what is going on and pulled about 12 of the males that are like that, the oldest are about 2-1/2 months now and already can see that. Butcher/processing day tomorrow! I also see quite a few pullets that don't show any copper at this age, would they be showing some by now if they are going to get it? I'd like to sell off the overmelanized pullets earlier than I did last year, if that is the case. I just wonder how many generations it will take to get rid of the extra breast color, I already culled heavily for that last year.