Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Hens and Roos]

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I know I have seen barrels like this out on craig's list here in WI but not sure what size they are. Wish I could send you some of our weather today- sunny but very windy so on the chilly side.

 

[math ace]

DON - - HOW do you take care of all those birds? ? ?

Do you have help or are you a single man operation?

 

[math ace]

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Thanks Lotsapaints for the link

HELP, I'VE FALLEN and CAN'T GET UP!

 

[Raven1]

Ok Kim as promised picture of peeps from my Splash roo and Black (or so I thought) hens. This is what I expected to get out of all the eggs:

only have one solid blue, here are some of the others not solid blue for sure

Please tell me is this splash, mottled, what? All my other splash look different then these.

 

[flgardengirl]

The cheapest I've seen the food grade plastic barrels around here is about 15.00 each. I wouldn't want to use anything except food grade. I was looking at them last year when I was researching for my rain barrel set up.

 

[AyeUpChuck]

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I've had that stuck in my head since she mentioned it when she left for Bend last weekend!

 

[Mountain Mel]

Raven, that certainly is an odd-colored bird....feathers on the legs, or no? I wish we could move forward in time and see what it looks like a year from now.

 

[Hens and Roos]

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too bad there wasn't a time progression program for chickens

 

[Wynette]

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I know I have seen barrels like this out on craig's list here in WI but not sure what size they are. Wish I could send you some of our weather today- sunny but very windy so on the chilly side.

What is the thing you call "sunny"?

 

[Mountain Mel]

Don, I don't know if this has been asked of you and I overlooked it or not.....but, what kind of feed/water system do you use with your hen separation barrels? I can't imagine individual units in each barrel that have to be tended every day, yet I don't see any kind of "system" either, unless it is on the backside of the barrels. I am trying to get a grip on how many man-hours per day is required to run your operation, not to mention the time involved in constructing it in the first place.
I have worked on commercial fryer farms out here and it is hard enough keeping up with large numbers of birds when they are all together in these huge multi-level commercial barns with automatic everything...I would be very interested in seeing pics of your feeding/watering systems.