Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Debbi]

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If he doesn't just send them to me

of course that would mean putting the incuabtor back together and having to watch bator TV

So, what's the problem??

That's become my favorite channel!

 

[Newyorkrita]

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So far all votes were for pullet. Sure hope that turns out to be so

Thanks!

 

[racuda]

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I have a pic of my chicks that looks exactly like what you are describing - inch long tail feathers and primaries an inch longer in one chick compared to another. I HOPE it is a gender thing, but the consensus was that, in my case (post 5055), both are male.

 

[Illia]

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I'd pin the one on the left male any day.

 

[Hens and Roos]

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If he doesn't just send them to me

of course that would mean putting the incuabtor back together and having to watch bator TV

So, what's the problem??

Oh there's no problem with that.... but we made an incubator out of a stryofoam cooler and I would like to up grade it to a cooler with a plastic inside(of course making one out the dorm size frig we have sitting in our garage taking up space would be nice too

) for ease of cleaning/disinfecting and that requires DH's help-not because I can't do it but he has all the needed tools on his truck..

guess I'll have to do a little hinting again(okay maybe big hinting!) and time seems to be at a premium these days for us.

 

[snowbird]

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I have a pic of my chicks that looks exactly like what you are describing - inch long tail feathers and primaries an inch longer in one chick compared to another. I HOPE it is a gender thing, but the consensus was that, in my case (post 5055), both are male.

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k304/racuda00/BCM/BCM4.jpg

Do you usually get a lot of the mossy colored chicks like the one on the right? He has a lot of brown mossy feathers coming in and would be worth looking into.

 

[math ace]

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You are thinking of the right types of crates. I only used the zippered bags because I don't know how rowdy the little ones are going to get. If they knock over the stacking crates, I would have chicks running all over the place. This way, I will still know who is who. The stacking is pretty solid, but I don't know what the little ones are capable of - - yet !

 

[math ace]

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X2! Must be the old fashioned kind?? Can't see the newer LEDs putting out much heat? What imaginations there are in here, wow!

I am kinda fond of the old fashioned types. I use them in the spring so that some of fruit bushes don't take a late freeze so hard . . .

You are right - - LED's would not do squawt for heating the little chickies !

 

[math ace]

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FIRST - - A BIG

MARANS THREAD

SECOND - - PROUD and DELIGHTED to see you trying to read all the past posts. IT is the BEST way to LEARN a lot of material. . . Those are not just gossip or social posts, there was a lot of " meat and potatoes" in those posts that you have to chew on for a while ! !

THIRD - - I can not help you with the K and k and other questions because I just have not had enough birds or experience to say anything. HOWEVER, I wanted to give you a BIG shout out - - so that you knew we weren't ignoring you

 

[VillageChicken]

Wynette and Pinkchick thanks for the welcome.
You asked for some pics. Here's what I mean.

Faster feathering at 10 days:

Slower hatchmate:

Fast chick again - see how long the wing feathers are. Slow hatchmate in front of her/him- see how the tail is significantly shorter:

Slow chick, (there's actually two like this):

Side by side: