Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Debbi]

Next time you guys have a clutch of chicks, watch them eat. The roos, at least here, will use their feet to hold onto the bowl or feeder! I noticed this with small chicks and with older birds, all of my roos do it! Be interesting to band the ones doing it at a young age to see if I'm right in my thinking!

 

[AyeUpChuck]

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I think I just might do that! I'll have a few batches over the next few weeks.

 

[Ivywoods]

Beat ya to it, Mel. We just recently got a Jersey bull calf. Meet Rusty. The only way he would hold still for a picture was if I let him suck on my fingers.

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We had an excess of goats milk, so we figured we might as well feed up a calf. I think Jerseys have the most beautiful eyes!

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This isn't a BCM, but this is my OLD bantam black cochin roo. He is at least 7 years old, maybe 8. He thinks he owns the barn!

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[Ivywoods]

We have a female peacock roaming the farm with a batch of wild turkeys! I have no idea where she came from. I saw her yesterday by herself just south of the house.

Then this morning my DH saw her in the road south of the house with about 5 wild turkeys. Our 3 guineas are so noisy sometimes, I wonder if that's what attracted her to our place.

Just took 3 BCM's, 3 golden lakenvelders and one bantam partridge wyandotte out of the incubator. Several more are pipped and zipped, so there should be more tomorrow.

I have one BCM hen that went broody. The only problem is I am not sure when she started sitting on these eggs.

She was under the nextboxes where I didn't see her. She may have been there for a few days. I'm just not sure. I'm thinking she should be hatching sometime between July 4-10. Hope she sticks with it.

Hope everyone has a great day!

 

[Ivywoods]

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That's a really good idea, and I think I'm going to look into it for my next season!

 

[Debbi]

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That's a really good idea, and I think I'm going to look into it for my next season!




Really???? Is there a "hatching season"???

Keep telling yourself that one!

I would like a link to something like that! Surely, some handy person could show us how to do it?

 

[Debbi]

Oooo what a sweet little Jersey!! I love Jerseys! A friend had a cow that would stand perfectly still and let 4 bottle lambs nurse off of her. She also let the Pyranees pups nurse too! What a great cow she was...and oh, that creamy milk!

 

[Ivywoods]

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Don't think we'll be milking this bull calf!

 

[flgardengirl]

Ivy that is such a cute calf. They do have the most expressive beautiful eyes. I wish I had a jersey milk cow! Are you gonna eat that baby when he grows up or use him for breeding?

Okay these are for Village Chicken. These are the result of a Silver Duckwing Phoenix roo x a Blue Ameraucana hen. I got 3 babies and I am thinking 2 males and 1 female. Not positive on the female but she looks girly especially compared to the males even though she looks like she has some of that male pattern duckwing feathering going on (?)

Cockeral #1

Pullet (?) -she sure is long legged lol. Hmm now that I am looking at this pic...maybe slow maturing male. Are those saddle feathers? Ugggg

Pullet with cockeral #1 for comparison

Cockeral #2 He is a darker blue than the first one.

Here is cockeral #2 with some young Copper Marans to stay on topic lol (he's on the right)

 

[AyeUpChuck]

So this guy is technically an EE but I figure he's a fun cross to share as well. The woman who bought him straight run gave him back to me today as he's started crowing. He's got the muff and beard of the Black Ameraucana and the coppering and feathered shanks of the BCM. He's Black Ameraucana over BCM