Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[ChicksterJo]

She is supposed to be a Blue Copper but I figured out that her likely dad did not have much coppering, so she looks like she is just blue. I was so surprised since she hasn't laid since the last day of August.

It will be a big move but I like to think of it as a learning experience...if I think otherwise, I will not like it there lol. It is such a magical place to me that it feels like the right choice.

(I forgot to add that that is the pullet in my avatar. I only have one Marans.

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[sewandgrow]

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So sorry Vicki,
I find myself envying all of you that get to let your birds free range or roam about when mine are all penned.........until something like this happens then I am so glad they are safe. I hope she has a full recovery.

 

[gilavina]

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ahh...I'm sure you probably have stated that somewhere on the thread and I just missed it. I still have some pages that I need to go back and catch up on one of these days. This morning however is farmer's market, a stop at tsc for feed, and going to an orchard with a friend. I am going to enjoy me thinks!

well....I did what I could for my pullet and cleaned her up and made her comfortable....but she didn't end up making it through the night. I'm truly bummed....

 

[sewandgrow]

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wholeheartedly agree! it used to be really bad...when I was a kid my oldest brother took me fishing on a creek that connects to this one and we had to climb down a steep embankment by an old bridge to the best fishing spot an old farmer had told him about. My brother didn't tell me the farmer had also warned him about the wild pack of dogs that ran up and down the creek....Well.. it was freezing and windy and after we had been out there a while fishing, my brother started acting funny...and basically dragged me up the embankment and across the bridge to the car. I didn't know why until we were crossing the bridge and looked down to see a pack of dogs on the bank not a couple hundred feet from us...there was a bit of a bend in the creek and the wind was blowing in the opposite direction so they couldn't smell us...but those were some scary looking dogs, one in particular was mammoth. Several people had been attacked or chased over the years, that's why farmers started taking matters into their own hands because they would come into their fields where they were working or onto their place and in general wasn't a safe place. Some had said they saw coyotes running with them from time to time.

Living in the country that is a constant source of concern. There are always loose dogs around from one farm oir another. I used to walk & bike ride for exercise all the time but gave it up after one to many scary encounters. I had my children with me one time many years ago & it freaked me out that they might get hurt. I have lost my share of "good" chickens to loose dogs....No more!!!!

 

[sewandgrow]

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ahh...I'm sure you probably have stated that somewhere on the thread and I just missed it. I still have some pages that I need to go back and catch up on one of these days. This morning however is farmer's market, a stop at tsc for feed, and going to an orchard with a friend. I am going to enjoy me thinks!

well....I did what I could for my pullet and cleaned her up and made her comfortable....but she didn't end up making it through the night. I'm truly bummed....

Sorry Vicki................

 

[Hens and Roos]

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ahh...I'm sure you probably have stated that somewhere on the thread and I just missed it. I still have some pages that I need to go back and catch up on one of these days. This morning however is farmer's market, a stop at tsc for feed, and going to an orchard with a friend. I am going to enjoy me thinks!

well....I did what I could for my pullet and cleaned her up and made her comfortable....but she didn't end up making it through the night. I'm truly bummed....

Sorry Vicki................

So sorry to hear that

 

[gilavina]

thanks... I feel lucky that I still have the rest of my girls....but its still sad. I'm off for the morning...see ya later

 

[flgardengirl]

Sorry to hear about your pullet. Could it have been a hawk? I am wondering, since there were no tracks and the hawks seem to be real active around here lately.
Just this morning, a small brown and white hawk tried to grab the little baby duckling that was out walking with its momma just a few feet away from our covered porch. I was standing right there watering some citrus trees and heard the lavender orp roo sound alert but he was too far to do anything. Then I saw a flash of white and brown wings over the duckling. At first, I thought it was one of the key west hens or silver duckwing phx hens since they are that color but noooo, it was a young little hawk and it had just about grabbed the duckling when its momma rushed over and slammed into it. She is a muscovy duck and quite alot bigger than the hawk so it took off quickly. Yesterday, a different, larger red hawk sat up in the tree above our coop areas and all the chickens hid for half the day. I don't know why they are being so obnoxious now. I know they hunt alot around here in the spring but don't remember there being this many last end of summer/fall last year.

 

[DMRippy]

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ahh...I'm sure you probably have stated that somewhere on the thread and I just missed it. I still have some pages that I need to go back and catch up on one of these days. This morning however is farmer's market, a stop at tsc for feed, and going to an orchard with a friend. I am going to enjoy me thinks!

well....I did what I could for my pullet and cleaned her up and made her comfortable....but she didn't end up making it through the night. I'm truly bummed....

I am so sorry Vicky!

 

[ChicksterJo]

Very sorry for your loss