Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[H Diamond]

Finally got a tray filled for the incubator and will be setting them tonight. 96 little possibilties, now can I be patient for three weeks?

I set mine last night!! I'm so excited!

 

[Catman58]

Well good luck. Are they all bcm or what are they? I brand incubator?

 

[gilavina]

Well good luck. Are they all bcm or what are they? I brand incubator?

Thanks! The sp eggs are splash copper, the ones marked BCT are from a blue copper trio I held over from my hatch last year and the rest unlabeled are from a pen of 16 hens that are black, blue and splash copper with a black copper male and splash copper male. The darkest are from a couple of my blue hens and a few of my black hens.

 

[H Diamond]

I have some BCM, some BTB, a couple OE's, some CCL, and some CCL/EE crosses. The marans I got from ladycat and am REALLY excited about them!

 

[gilavina]

Well good luck. Are they all bcm or what are they? I brand incubator?

Oh, and both my incubator and hatcher are sportsman.

 

[elorraine52]

I'm getting ready to set mine tomorrow, very exciting!!

 

[Herlovlies]

Sweet! Three little broody bitties in their blue boxes!

 

[bamadude]

I have some BCM, some BTB, a couple OE's, some CCL, and some CCL/EE crosses. The marans I got from ladycat and am REALLY excited about them!

Ladycat just had a person with 100% hatch rate with her shipped eggs on the hatchalong thread.
That is very noteworthy

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

Ladycat just had a person with 100% hatch rate with her shipped eggs on the hatchalong thread.
That is very noteworthy

It surely is. Around Christmastime I had a contest on my facebook farm page, and the winner had 100% hatch on those shipped eggs from OR to NC. It's all about the USPS and who is handling the eggs along the way. I wish there was more we could do to get more viable eggs to customers.

 

[desertmarcy]

It surely is. Around Christmastime I had a contest on my facebook farm page, and the winner had 100% hatch on those shipped eggs from OR to NC. It's all about the USPS and who is handling the eggs along the way. I wish there was more we could do to get more viable eggs to customers.

If you pack them in live bird shipping boxes (like from Horizon) instead of flat rate shipping boxes, I have heard they will fare better.