Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[flgardengirl]

My flashlights don't set off the security lights but they aren't that strong. There is a little red light on the security lights that I can see in the dark so I walk towards it and my movement trips it once I get close enough lol. I hate tripping around out there. I wish I could find one with a remote control. There is an old outbuilding out there that has electricity where the light is wired into it. Maybe if I ran the wires up to the house I could turn it on somehow from there manually. I just haven't gotten that far yet with all that stuff since we moved in here a year ago lol.
I'm like you, I like that dark nights out here but not when I'm trying to do something, there are so many little stumps and stuff to trip on around here plus I don't see that well at night anyways.

 

[sewandgrow]

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I have some solar panel walkway lights that work pretty well. They are not really bright but you can at least see where you are going without having to run electricity...............LOL. I am so afraid of falling I hate not being able to see where I am going, even in the house I have night lights.

 

[flgardengirl]

That's a good idea on the solar panel lights. A few years ago I bought some christmas light strings that were solar. I got them on clearance real cheap at Target the day after Christmas. I got 5 light strings and 2 netted ones that go over bushes. They are great but not much light (the lights are tiny) I mostly got them to use on the patio and I put one on the garden swing. I saved a few more for the tiki bar we are building (if it ever gets finished LOL). They are pretty and in the summer, the hummingbird/hawk moths are attracted to them. The bad thing on those is the little batteries wear out fast and have to be replaced. If Target has them again this year after xmas I am going to go get some more.

 

[Ivywoods]

One of my 3 new bc marans chicks has a tiny spot of brown on the back of its head. It is about 1/8 inch in diameter. I don't think I can get a very good picture of it.

Is this indicative of anything?

 

[haTHOR]

finally getting eggs from my FCBM girls. the big speckled one shown here is from my mossy hen. shown with a white (leghorn), robin's egg blue (EE), and light brown (java) egg.

 

[Debbi]

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Ivywoods ~ A spot of mossy maybe? One of mine in the last batch had one also, and now has one mossy feather on his neck area on the back. The spot on the head is gone, and the feather on his neck is fading out. Since it started to fade, he is now finally getting in some hackle color...

haTHOR ~ Pretty eggs!!!!!!!

 

[pinkchick]

Debbi~

That is a big'un! Congrats! So is it a double yolker? Was it nummy?

HaThor~ Congratulations on your pretty eggs. Doesn't it seem like it takes them forever to finally do it? I swear I get a few new grays waiting on every new batch of POL pullets.

 

[pinkchick]

Ivy~

I personally do not believe that one little speck or fleck of a brownish/rusty colored feather on the head is indicitive of anything. However, I will say that I believe if the chick has a whole head of that brownish color, they will be very mossy adults. When I had other lines of birds and not Davis line birds, I would have chicks pop up with the brownish heads, they did grow to be mossy adults and they laid the prettiest eggs.
Out of the birds that I have now, I have had 2 little babies come out with a random little fleck of a brownish /rusty feather, both birds are full grown and one shows copper and the other does not.

 

[Debbi]

Mornin' Pink!

I'm waiting for the other shoe, or egg, to drop! Looks like it may be lunch instead of breakfast!

 

[pinkchick]

Mornin'!
Am I hearing a fried egg sandwich in the makings for lunch? Yum! DH made me a fried egg sandwich for lunch yesterday, it was delicious.