Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[ruth]

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I'm sorry to hear that. I know how dissappointing that can be. Is he in Baghdad? If so, maybe he and my son know each other. What's his name? I video chat with my son via Yahoo and I can ask. In the meantime, I'll keep praying. Per my son, they have moved his date up once already and I'm praying they'll keep moving it. Enough said - it's a chicken forum and I already get into too much trouble.

Monique

Debbi - it's a joyous morning here. Just talked to my son in Iraq and they are "beginning movement" TOMORROW. They are pulling out and coming home. Thank you Lord. Maybe your son will be on the same plane. I don't have any other details, he was in a hurry and had to go. He wasn't supposed to leave till mid-March.

Great morning everyone !!!!

 

[Debbi]

Praise the Lord! My son is in Mozool (sp?), and still have no info. I'm going to the Yahoo IM now to see if I can track him down. 2011 is really starting off great for you...except for the pnuemonia!

 

[ruth]

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What pneumonia? I feel GREAT !!!!!!


And if my son wasn't supposed to leave for another month (originally end of March) and has gotten moved up this much, maybe your son is on his way home also. I pray that's the case.

 

[pinkchick]

Monique~

This is definately the best news of the day! I can't wait to hear about the first moment you hug him and hold him safe in your arms. I'm so happy for you!

I hope you feel better soon and many congratulations on the new grandbaby.

Debbi~ I hope you hear from your son very soon with good news

.....it's high time all of our service men and women come home.

 

[pinkchick]

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Beautiful! Just BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! Good luck with your hatch!

 

[gilavina]

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Beautiful! Just BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! Good luck with your hatch!

Thanks Kim,

Should have chicks in about 3 or 4 days starting to hatch from some of my stock...and these will go in today....I just got a deal from Helen Byers I couldn't turn down... (and yes...I do hope I am still on the waiting list for some blue Marans eggs from you when you are ready!)
How are your hatches goin?

 

[Myabcs3]

I have been lurking for a while now, so I thought I would share some wonderful news...it seems to be the day for good news -

I have some new babies! French legged cuckoo marans!!! YAHOO!!! 1 male, 1 female and 1 still to come! I will post pics soon!!!

I know many of the posts are not about cuckoo marans, but I had to share SOMEWHERE!!!

 

[sewandgrow]

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Myabcs,
Cuckoo Marans are welcomed..........Good for you. My first were cuckoo Marans from a chicken lovin friend.....LOL

 

[pinkchick]

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Beautiful! Just BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! Good luck with your hatch!

Thanks Kim,

Should have chicks in about 3 or 4 days starting to hatch from some of my stock...and these will go in today....I just got a deal from Helen Byers I couldn't turn down... (and yes...I do hope I am still on the waiting list for some blue Marans eggs from you when you are ready!)
How are your hatches goin?

You go girl!

Come On Chickies!!!!

Yep....you sure are on "my list"..............

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fogot to answer your question about hatches.....3 eggs out of 10 are in lockdown....Valentine's babies??????

. The ones I pulled were mostly all pullet eggs......funny thing is that one of them that's in lockdown is another pullets very first egg and is doing fine upon candling this morning.

The other 2 eggs in there are both out of my very dark blue copper roo Bill's pen...one is from a Splash Copper pullet and the other is from a Black Copper pullet. The Splash girls eggs always hatch and this will be the second egg to hatch from the young BCM to hatch if it does, but I have only set a total of 5 of her eggs for testing. The girls that you like are produced from this rooster. I am also working on eye color with offspring from this pen.....both the Splash and the BCM have a darker eye....darker than I like and Bill's AWESOME eye color passes to almost all of his offspring. I think I only have one girl from him that has a slightly darker eye, but not as dark as the Splash or BCM. So far, the couple of boys and one pullet from my first hatches of this new season (my whacky hatching season this time started in October and hasn't stopped since) are showing nice eye color already at 4 mos old.
I have more set for lockdown on the 16th. Haven't candled those yet. Another 16 set for lockdown on the 24th. Nothing on the books after that....YET.

 

[pinkchick]

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Congratulations!

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and WELCOME to the Marans thread and Marans!