Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[rsarns]

With two incubators going full of eggs, I am worried about the storm that is about to hit us up here on the Island... supposed to be lots of wind. Hope we don't lose power, but I have the generator standing by just in case....

 

[pinkchick]

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When the power goes out here, first thing I do is fill up some water bottles with the hottest water I can get from the tap and put them in the 'bator. I have woodstove that I can keep a kettle of water on for continued hot water. Also..depending on which bator I am using I can move them out close to the wood stove and I cover them with towels. When the power goes out I don't worry about the humidity at all. Heat is what my concern is. I have had outages that last a couple hours to all day, to overnight. Some outages have been smack dab in the middle of hatch and others happened on lockdown day and other happened early on in the incubation period....my best hatches have come from batches of eggs that went through an outage. The are stong little buggers. I think the lowest temp that I ever experienced during a long power outage was like 71 degrees and 31 out of 38 eggs hatched.

 

[rsarns]

My incubators are by the woodstove, and I can fire that up also. WIth the generator I can keep them going without a problem, as long as I am home when it happens! We get some nasty winds up here, and have used the generators quite a bit... I really want to get a big generator that kicks on automatically and runs off my propane...

 

[BarnGoddess01]

Got my brooders set up today. Confirmed all necessary supplies are at hand and heat lamps a go. Nursery music queued for hatching. Lockdown on Friday!!!

(I'm not excited or anything ....

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[flgardengirl]

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Hope you get a bunch of bouncing babies

My baby chicks always liked a little Stevie Ray Vaughan

"It's flooding down in Texas...all of the telephone lines are down...."

 

[SD_Paulo]

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Marans Chicken Club USA. The parent club here in the US that deals with the APA. You must be a member to access the group.

Thanks for the "heads up". Just registered.

 

[SD_Paulo]

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Debbi- sorry to back track a ways on a topic but this a very interesting topic to me. I have about half my girls with flop combs. In their defence, I have notice that they will tend to flop as they get further along their laying cycle too. I have seen some offspring with minute sprigs, whcih were culled, yet nothing that looks like some of the photos you and others have posted.

But I hasten to think that all floppy comb girls carry the gene? You arent suggesting, with your experience, that I cull those girls are you?!?!?!?

 

[pinkchick]

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Nope, can't tell at all!

Bring on the babies!

 

[joymac]

I have a pair of 7-8 week old Wheaten Marans, named Lucy and Ethel, but I'm starting to think Ethel might really be Desi. Any thoughts? ps...it's really difficult to take pictures of these little guys!

 

[DMRippy]

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When the power goes out here, first thing I do is fill up some water bottles with the hottest water I can get from the tap and put them in the 'bator. I have woodstove that I can keep a kettle of water on for continued hot water. Also..depending on which bator I am using I can move them out close to the wood stove and I cover them with towels. When the power goes out I don't worry about the humidity at all. Heat is what my concern is. I have had outages that last a couple hours to all day, to overnight. Some outages have been smack dab in the middle of hatch and others happened on lockdown day and other happened early on in the incubation period....my best hatches have come from batches of eggs that went through an outage. The are stong little buggers. I think the lowest temp that I ever experienced during a long power outage was like 71 degrees and 31 out of 38 eggs hatched.

Not a power outage but same consequence. I had the incubator turned off over night and was in the 70's and didn't discover it till late afternoon the next day and the same hatch a light blew and the temps dropped again. Once in lockdown the both blubs blew on me and the temp dropped again. Still had 13/14 hatch. Three serious temp drops and everything turned out just fine.