Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Hens and Roos]

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boy, if we were closer my kids would be happy to hatch them out for a 4-H project, that's what we have going on right now

best way to do chicken math!!

 

[The Point]

Hi all

Wow! It is quiet in here. Thought I would post some pics tonight
eggs from last week

 

[Debbi]

Hi Tannis!! Pretty eggs and pretty flock! Are you gearing up for more snow that way?

 

[The Point]

Yep, 3 inches tomorrow night. Ice, snow and below 0 wind chills tuesday night and then the storm hits Wednesday. Is it bad there? Your weather usually hits here the next day, just colder!

 

[geebs]

I have to gloat just a little (last year we had the lions share of weather)... I washed my horse today it was so nice... Ready for the show this week...I might not be on here much during the week through the next weekend.... I am hauling kids and horses to their competition...

 

[Harris5]

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Good luck!!! I hope you all 'clean house!'

 

[Mountain Mel]

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!!!! I had to set my clock early to get up before the rest of you folks... now I'm going back to bed for a while.

 

[pinkchick]

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Morning Mr. Mel!

Those eggs go into lockdown today, set for hatch on Thursday. I started out with 22 and removed 12 that were clear, the 12 that I removed were all from one or 2 of the youngest laying BCM's, I am going to downsize Gnarles' flock again to see if it helps, but I know the eggs were fertile as I had checked them. Don't know what happened, but I set another 2 batches of 10 eggs each to see if I get development this time around. This really puts a damper in starting to send out eggs.....if they aren't developing, I have to find the problem, get it fixed and try some more eggs so I can get on shipping.
I would like to keep a couple of these babies depending on how many hatch and you can come get the rest of the hatch if you would like....I will keep them about a week or two so you have plenty of time to get ready for them. I will keep you updated.

Do any of the little ones that you picked up a couple weeks ago look like roos yet? It's killin' me.....I have to know if I was even remotely close on my original gender guesses. Pic's later would be great.....remember to get one from the front and one full on side view if you can.

 

[Debbi]

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Well it's going to get worse if you get what we will be getting. Today rain, tonight freezing rain turning to snow. They are calling for at least 1/2" of ice first in my area, then between 10-14" of snow come Tuesday! Temps dropping to zero, with wind chill factors at minus 10-20!

20mph winds, sounds like fun, eh?? Glad I don't have anything in the bator right now, I can see a power outage in my near future. Hope I don't lose every dang comb I have out there, or any chickens for that matter! C'mon summer!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[pinkchick]

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Simply GAWGEOUS Tannis!!! Beautiful eggs and birds!