Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Debbi]

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Anna~
Check the temperature too...this black chick that shows the short down indicates perhaps the temps may have been just a little too high. I've been doing a lot a reading since I had to cull those 2 Welsummer chicks due to unaborbed or rough navel. Don suggested that I check the temps and I did and he was right.....and I have adjusted it. (Thank you Don! ) Will see how the hatch with the Birchens comes out.

Since I usually use a still air bator and my little LG is a forced air about 3/4s of the way through the hatch it hit me it is susposed to my higher then 99.5

Nope, the forced air temp should be 99.5. That's the bator I started with..

 

[pinkchick]

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Congratulations!

 

[Debbi]

Yeh Hens!! I really love my new little Splash girl! Congrats!

 

[Mountain Mel 22]

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Sounds like what I woulda done as a kid. You might want to have milk and cookies waiting on them one day. That would give them a WTH moment.

That's why I do this, is because it is something I would have done (been there, done that) as a kid. During summer months I keep a couple of trout poles out there and a small tackle box with some fishing gear. There is an old picnic table under the trees. About once a week I go out and take the backlashes out of the reels and retrieve bobbers, etc. out of the over hanging branches. A couple of years ago I was gone for a while and when I came back I found a ring of rocks and a small home-made lean-to where kids had camped out there. I wish I still had the pics. It was PRICELESS!

 

[Mountain Mel 22]

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Mel, you're making me really jealous with the description of your place. Only I'd want black bass and channel cats in that pond.
Thanks Debbi, that's good to know. I was hoping I could get by with a community type nesting box instead of compartments. I'm a lousy carpenter and this will make it much easier on me.

I need to put some bass in there to eat down the small bluegill. I also have huge Koi in there and one 5 foot long sturgeon. I'm waiting for one of the neighborhood kids to hook that sturgeon on their little bluegill rod. The kids sneak in and fish when they think I'm not looking but really I watch them with my binocs. They have a regular path worn into the pond and where they scoot under the barbed-wire fence there are often shreds of clothing..It's AWESOME!

Mel....are you encouraging hooliganism in young children again?

I would much rather have kids sneaking into my pond to fish and thinking they were doing something wrong than to see them in town with their pants down to their knees looking for a place to break into or something to steal.
I've confronted them and told them that if I ever see where anyone has chopped on my trees or broken my cedar rail fences there be all kinds of "heck"(not the words I used) to pay. When I told 'em this I was all puffed up like a banty Roo and quite loud about it. FYI...I'm over 6' and weigh over 250#. I think I got my message across.

 

[gilavina]

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Mel....are you encouraging hooliganism in young children again?

I would much rather have kids sneaking into my pond to fish and thinking they were doing something wrong than to see them in town with their pants down to their knees looking for a place to break into or something to steal.
I've confronted them and told them that if I ever see where anyone has chopped on my trees or broken my cedar rail fences there be all kinds of "heck"(not the words I used) to pay. When I told 'em this I was all puffed up like a banty Roo and quite loud about it. FYI...I'm over 6' and weigh over 250#. I think I got my message across.

haha...I was teasin...I think its great that you let them have a place like that...they will always remember it. I think people are much to serious these days

 

[math ace]

And the winner is .........

The wild ones on the WEST COAST.....

Try not to stay up to late and get to crazy tonight!

 

[gilavina]

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haha what about all of us in the midwest? haha...

 

[Mountain Mel 22]

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haha what about all of us in the midwest? haha...

What are y'all gonna do when I decide to take a road trip & come visit folks? I really want to see Daytona Beach, plus I have good friends that live in Florida...dead center of the state.

 

[Mountain Mel 22]

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haha what about all of us in the midwest? haha...

What are y'all gonna do when I decide to take a road trip & come visit folks? I really want to see Daytona Beach, plus I have good friends that live in Florida...dead center of the state.

Sons Of Anarchy is on...I gotta go!!!