Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[geebs]

You let me know Pink... I will send up whatever your heart desires.... Did that gal ever ship out the BLRW eggies??? I will get custody of the BLRW's back this spring...

Pink.... did you get snow???? We didn't get a flake here at all!!!

 

[pinkchick]

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No....no eggies. But I'll sure take 'em when you've got 'em!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[geebs]

Crap... Why didn't you say something... DANG!!! I will get on the horn with her and see what's crackin..

Hey check this out: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=435804

I will likely hatch the little buggers and bring em up... Will that work??? At least that way I can guarantee hatchies.... I want to come up and see your place anyway... I don't know if she is using light... I know she was having trouble keeping the roosters separated and I told her NO MIXES>... maybe she didn't get enought to send that weren't a possible cross... I will call her.. I am supposed to see her to give her some Ivermectin for them anyway...

 

[math ace]

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I was talking to someone on the another thread and they said you could still get eggs from non NPIP members. How do I find out for sure ? ?

 

[pinkchick]

No....no shnow yet! They think tonight and that is a drag because we have to travel 1.5 hrs to work tomorrow out in the backwoods, hoping for whatever they expect to hold off for a few days, so we can work for one and don't have to travel while the roads are snasty.


Oh and I'll be happy to let you call my dad and explain to him that it is a weeks worth of work, with just my DH and myself I see it turning into more than that. Dad said he'd be happy to hook the splitter up to the hoe and sit inside the enclosed heated cab and that my mom would be more than happy to take loads up to the house in the "ladybug" her RTV thingy....

"okay dad, that helps.....helps alot.......mom is going to be making a thousand trips carrying 8 pieces each trip all day"......his response was....."well it will keep her out of trouble anyway." Gotta love my pop!

Thanks for offering up help with from your little woodchuck but I think I am going to borrow one of my sons that owes me money and take him with us today. Work it off or pay it off, either works for me.

 

[pinkchick]

I will likely hatch the little buggers and bring em up... Will that work???

Chicks work for me.....just let me know in advance when you are planning to hatch so that I can be sure to have brooder space available for them.

 

[geebs]

Genuine offer on the good boy: Let me know... I would drive him up to ya... no joke!!!

he is trying to look like a cool dude here!!! ha ha ha... you never see him without a smile so this picture is hysterical!!!!

 

[geebs]

If you have a cute nieghborgirl... he works even harder!!! LOL...

 

[sewandgrow]

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So Cute!!!!

 

[sewandgrow]

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I feed 17% all purpose poultry, I do not use oyster shell (the roos don't need it and they get enough calcium from other sources), I do provide chick grit in the runs from time to time but it is not used as a feed. I supplement suet cakes, one per week each coop depending on size of flock in a coop, some coops get 2 suet cakes per week. Once a week they get a nice warm gruel that has all sorts of goodies in it:
Oatmeal, steel cut groats, whole groats, a little flax (not too much flax), millet, rooster booster vitamins, cooked mashed bananas, apple, CRANBERRIES, finely chopped and cooked pine nuts if I have them or peanuts, sweet potato, tumeric, cinnamon, garlic, thyme, scrambled eggs, finely ground pumpking seeds, some plain yogurt and whatever else I think I can cook in the same pot that I think may be good for them. I let this cool and mix it with a little feed and disperse to the chooks. They love it.
The rest of the week they get all purpose feed with fresh greens....lettuce, chard, keil, fresh pumpkin if I have it, zuchinni, squash or whatever they can have out of the fridge or storage.
Once a month I treat with an all natural wormer that my girl friend makes, she makes all natural human and animal health products and human beauty products, this wormer is the sludge at the bottom of the barrel that she divides 3 ways between her, my best friend and myself. The chickens love this and eat every last bit of it......I don't know what is in it but I can tell you that I love it and it makes the coops smell like Christmas baking for days.
I feed very little scratch grains....a 50# bag lasts over 2 months here with just less than 200 birds.
I also use Apple Cider vinegar in the their water maybe once every 3 weeks and I also put a few drops of effective microorganisms in their water every other week. (effective microorganisms = lactobacillus casei) I make a brew of this once a month from a mother source that I ordered a bottle of off line.
I feed pretty much the same things as geebs does and if I missed something she will chime in and tell us what I forgot.

WOW................Kim. That's what I am talking about. I knew there were people out there with special formulas. I do hope I can get myself with the program & try to do a better job for the chickens health wise. We usually have a garden in the spring/summer & certainly have the room to do more. Our area is mainly agricultural & we have alot of different crops available to glean. I guess I need to get busy. I try buying the best that is recommended but I need to do alot more it sounds like. Thanks so much for all that information