Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Wynette]

Pink....sorry....don't mean to be makin' fun, but DAAAAAAANNNNNGGGG!!!!!

 

[math ace]

MEL,

This is for you . . . . Remember when you were asking about the non-stop crowing at your place ? ? ?

Back then, my boys were crowing, but stopping by 8 or 9 a.m. Well lately, these boys are driving me CRAzzzzy. A GIANT Non-stop crowing competition.

So today, I had ENOUGH of this Crap! So, I was out working near the pens and the boys were going to town with the crowing. I picked up the water hose and started squirting them. As soon as they raised their head up to crow.. . . . SQUIRT. It got amazingly quiet!

I couldn't reach one rooster . . . so he would crow, but the other three big boys. . .. I could reach!

It didn't take long for them to figure it out. MAN, you would not believe how fast a delaware rooster can run . .. He really didn't like the water. The BCM roos were quicker to figure it out and SHUT UP!

When the one rooster I couldn't reach would crow, I started deeply yelling ACKKKKKK. The other three roos would just shut - up. Whoever wouldn't got wet!

If your roos are in pens . . . . this is worth a try!

If it is like dog or cat training. . . . it will take a few days and consistency to make it a long term corrective behavior training technique.

I am going to keep it up and see what happens

 

[seabreeze]

Mel, I happen to LOVE your humor, its wonderfully refreshing, quick and different! ZING!!!!

Glad everyone is having mega successes with their hatches. I've learned to NOT buy eggs since hatch rates have plummeted for me. Just can't find the right place to hatch them I guess, its either too hot at tack house from boyfriend cranking up the wood stove or....I haven't tried hatching at my house yet but I keep it very cool (60 degrees, pretty constant) because I do not do well in hot weather or houses

So hoping some of the new chicks I purchased go broody for me when they are old enough but in the meantime, I am loving the beautiful blue Marans babies, splash and watching my blue birchen Marans roos growing up, figuring out who stays and who feeds the masses

 

[math ace]

MEL,

I just went out to do some re-enforcing training. . . two hits with the water hose and my one BCM roo just found a place to sit down and chill his heels.
Big daddy BCM roo took a couple of hits with the water hose and decided to go hang out in the COOP

Talking about needing some big girl panties

Delaware roo - - he went a running and did no more crowing.

I did find a longer water hose to reach roo # 4. He gave up quickly!

I think I will go out and visit the boys once an hour for the rest of the day . . .. It is ROASTING today! High of 92, OMG it is an OVEN outside and I am squirting the birds. . . . I should turn the hose on myself !

 

[math ace]

I am thinking about having Dh hook water hoses and sprinklers up infront of each cage for me. Then I can set on the gazebo and each time one opens his mouth, I could flip a switch a blast him!

I am talking about this with Dh tonight. That man can make ANYTHING work. . . . and I am wanting this!

 

[Raven1]

Hi Karla!

Pink, always a pleasure to see Bill!
Mel, glad to see you (I lurk more than post too)
Math, I hope the system works out for you, would love to see it when he puts it in

 

[seabreeze]

92?!?!??! EGADS!!!

No thanks! I moan about the PNW rain 50% of the year but I would rather deal with cool, wet weather than that type of heat (and probably humdity as well).

 

[math ace]

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It is not pretty. . . . I will probably stay in the house for the next 3 or 4 hours and then come out in the evening and work until dark!

We will be in the 100's before long . . . .

 

[math ace]

We get our rainy season in the summer (typically) when the temps are so extreme.

The PNW gets as much rain as we do - - - but yours is in the colder weather and ours is in the hotter.
We, normally, don't get any rain during the cooler months.

 

[seabreeze]

It would be the humidity that kills me! I can handle dry heat, grew up in the the southern CA deserts where it got into the 100s during summer but as soon as the sun set behind the mountains, it cooled WAAAAY down! Not quite the same as PNW summers where all the pastures, trees, shrubbery seem to keep the heat going far into the night and humdiity is a bit higher but not like the south!