Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[gilavina]

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No I did have for 2years until that stinkin coon killed them

stinkin coons!!!!

id have to look and see....

 

[chevgrl]

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stinkin coons!!!!

id have to look and see....

Please please please...

 

[gilavina]

here's the youngest and smallest of the three....she expresses nice birchen to which to me is a bonus....the other two i think im gonna have to take some pics of

crap!!! forgot to paste it. she needs work, but im ok with that

 

[chevgrl]

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Oh she's pretty.

 

[Chinchilla2]

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The thing with using medicated food is that some medications will prevent the uptake of minerals and vitamins, resulting in an otherwise healthy individual becoming vitamin deficient. That is why some people jump on the "no medicated food" bandwagon when they hear of a chick that suddenly takes a downturn. If one is using medicated food, the best and first step when really weird symptoms start to appear is to actually remove the medication and add supplemental vitamins. If the animal happens to be one of those whose metabolism responds to medication by blocking vitamin uptake, the animal will get worse for a little bit (usually over the next 4-6 hours) as the medication moves out of the system then start to improve. It's the same process they use with people. However, with chicks it may be a bit longer depending on how full their crop is when the medicated food is removed and non-medicated is put in place.

If the chick is not improving after that 4-6 hour time frame, then you move onto other causes. In that situation, you probably need to pull the medicated feed anyway since it could react to any other medication and cause neither medication to work.

Personally, I hate to feed anything a medicated food for longer than one week anyway. That way there is less chance of a tolerance building up to the medication in case I have to use it again in the future. But that's just a personal preference and everyone needs to use their own judgement and experience on whether or not as well as how long to use medicated food.

 

[Chinchilla2]

Just curious here, but does anyone have or know where I can find some pictures of day old Blue and Splash Marans chicks? I've got 5 in the brooder and another 7 eggs that have pipped. Unfortunately, I have no camera here at the house but two are a nice pretty dark silver, two are a light silvery grey, and the fifth is yellow with just a tiny hint of the light silver, almost like someone gave it a light dusting of silver dust. They are soooooo cute!

Waiting <somewhat im>patiently for the rest to hatch.

 

[they'reHISchickens]

Can I get an opinion here?
This is our BlueCM roo who is a year and a half old. We put our 2blacks and 1 blue laced hen with him this year and hatched what we could. We still havent' figured out how to hatch more than about 35%, but are working on it. Hatches were heavily roo but we have some young pullets now: 2 pure powdered blue, a few blue laced, a couple black and 3 splash. Only 2 splash have reached laying age.
Should we keep him for another year? He doesn't get along with our other two roos ( an Orp and an Arcauna). The other two roos are good together and excellent flock protectors as we do free-range. He is also rough on the girls, but we admit, he needs more than 3 to keep him busy. If we keep him it would be in isolation for the winter, then put the girls with him in late winter for breeding.
In an ideal world, he would replace the Orp as head roo, but we are afraid he would kill both roos and they are proven flock protectors and good to the ladies.
Is he good enough quality to keep him around or would it be fairly easy to replace him in late winter by purchasing/rehoming a FBCM roo?
Of the roos we hatched this year, there were really only one or two that I thought were close to this guy. Many had mossy chests fairly early. ( The mama hens are not mossy at all.) I have one black young roo that I want to grow out because we would really like to lean towards blacks with a few blues/splashes.
His leg feathering is a bit sparse but the black hens are well feathered and the powder blue pullets are well feathered- moreso than the blue hen. The splashes are both feathered and nonfeathered.
What's the verdict-- keep or replace?

 

[gilavina]

Hey Anna,

here is another posting of some of my young chicks I put up not too long ago...my favorite project of all the Marans.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=383387&p=2033

I'm looking for the other one I put up around that time too. I figure its easier to do it this way than to repost the photos on the thread.

here is the other page I was looking for you

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=7571772

those other blue cuckoo F1s I'll have to see if I can get some pics of for you. maybe tomorrow I can get it done tomorrow if the weather is nice. I gotta go to town and get feed and shavings...but will have to unload my truck....It's full of delicious pumpkins for my chickers this winter at the moment

Should be an interesting day tomorrow

 

[chevgrl]

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Here's better pics of greta. (These are older pictures but alittle better)

 

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they'reHISchickens :

Can I get an opinion here?
This is our BlueCM roo who is a year and a half old. We put our 2blacks and 1 blue laced hen with him this year and hatched what we could. We still havent' figured out how to hatch more than about 35%, but are working on it. Hatches were heavily roo but we have some young pullets now: 2 pure powdered blue, a few blue laced, a couple black and 3 splash. Only 2 splash have reached laying age.
Should we keep him for another year? He doesn't get along with our other two roos ( an Orp and an Arcauna). The other two roos are good together and excellent flock protectors as we do free-range. He is also rough on the girls, but we admit, he needs more than 3 to keep him busy. If we keep him it would be in isolation for the winter, then put the girls with him in late winter for breeding.
In an ideal world, he would replace the Orp as head roo, but we are afraid he would kill both roos and they are proven flock protectors and good to the ladies.
Is he good enough quality to keep him around or would it be fairly easy to replace him in late winter by purchasing/rehoming a FBCM roo?
Of the roos we hatched this year, there were really only one or two that I thought were close to this guy. Many had mossy chests fairly early. ( The mama hens are not mossy at all.) I have one black young roo that I want to grow out because we would really like to lean towards blacks with a few blues/splashes.
His leg feathering is a bit sparse but the black hens are well feathered and the powder blue pullets are well feathered- moreso than the blue hen. The splashes are both feathered and nonfeathered.
What's the verdict-- keep or replace?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/17886_mature_blue_roo.jpg

I'd take that roo off your hands but I'm betting you don't like in IA/NE​