Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Shireshome]

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If you're leaving them for a few days and it doesn't rain too hard that works. But if they are going to be left for a month or more it would be better for you to cover it with a small piece of wood with a big rock on top. If you don't cover them what happens is, mud fills in around the big rocks and they get really stuck in there, and it the end you'll re-drilling all the holes.
Missouri is really difficult to farm in, The soil is either too hard or too soft. Sometimes, you just can't win.

 

[Debbi]

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If you're leaving them for a few days and it doesn't rain too hard that works. But if they are going to be left for a month or more it would be better for you to cover it with a small piece of wood with a big rock on top. If you don't cover them what happens is, mud fills in around the big rocks and they get really stuck in there, and it the end you'll re-drilling all the holes.
Missouri is really difficult to farm in, The soil is either too hard or too soft. Sometimes, you just can't win.

Hmmm, good point! Yes, the clay dirt here is hard packed in the summer, and just a swamp here now. Oh, and can't forget the rocks!

Maybe I'll just wait till spring...

 

[fowlman01]

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If you're leaving them for a few days and it doesn't rain too hard that works. But if they are going to be left for a month or more it would be better for you to cover it with a small piece of wood with a big rock on top. If you don't cover them what happens is, mud fills in around the big rocks and they get really stuck in there, and it the end you'll re-drilling all the holes.
Missouri is really difficult to farm in, The soil is either too hard or too soft. Sometimes, you just can't win.

Hmmm, good point! Yes, the clay dirt here is hard packed in the summer, and just a swamp here now. Oh, and can't forget the rocks!

Maybe I'll just wait till spring...

Same here in Cali. I have to put down a substrate of straw during the winter because of the clay.

Walt

 

[SD_Paulo]

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Is it just me or does the White Red Marans have wonky blade on his comb and also a sprig?
I figured out how to work my handy dandy pink highlighter thingy again to point out the possible sprig, hope you don't mind Flgarden.
Looking at flgardens original photo it is easier to spot, but the arrow gives a person the general area to look in.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/fo...e_red_marans_newnan_geo_show_flgarden_pic.jpg

Nope...... "those arent the Driods you are looking for!"~ Star Wars

Perhaps that why alot of the SHOW folks are in denial? IMO, I honestly beleive that poulty shows, like dog, show sometimes do more harm for the breeds than good! They need to have a more robust grading system than simply looks alone. (I.E.egg production, meat production, carcass size, etc.) Visual, asthetics, seems to shallow of a means of judging poultry!Unless, their of the ornimental type (like Seranams, Silkies, etc).

Sorry Judges I know you guys have a tough job but the Status Quo seems very one dimensional.

 

[SD_Paulo]

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oh yeah...by the way..down the line I should have some BLRW too...and I have some pretty awesome stuff in other breeds too...

BLRW's are definitely on my list.

X2 on the BLRW, and Blue Birchen, Large Favs, Bantam Dark/BLR Cornish, Shamo's.....thats all for now....i think

 

[fowlman01]

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Is it just me or does the White Red Marans have wonky blade on his comb and also a sprig?
I figured out how to work my handy dandy pink highlighter thingy again to point out the possible sprig, hope you don't mind Flgarden.
Looking at flgardens original photo it is easier to spot, but the arrow gives a person the general area to look in.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/fo...e_red_marans_newnan_geo_show_flgarden_pic.jpg

Nope...... "those arent the Driods you are looking for!"~ Star Wars

Perhaps that why alot of the SHOW folks are in denial? IMO, I honestly beleive that poulty shows, like dog, show sometimes do more harm for the breeds than good! They need to have a more robust grading system than simply looks alone. (I.E.egg production, meat production, carcass size, etc.) Visual, asthetics, seems to shallow of a means of judging poultry!Unless, their of the ornimental type (like Seranams, Silkies, etc).

Sorry Judges I know you guys have a tough job but the Status Quo seems very one dimensional.

There are all kinds of different skill levels in judges as there are in any other job. If a bird is not put together with the correct structure and body form that the breed should have it is not going to do well with me judging. One of the things spectators overlook is that we are feeling the bird as we hold it. If it does not have the body that breed calls for it will not produce as well as the breed description says. I don't know how many eggs it's going to lay, but I can tell if a bird is productive.

You don't sound as if you really know a lot about showing.....the birds are much more than a bag of pretty feathers, they have to be built right. We breed and show Corgis. The dog world has very little to do with the poultry world. It is apples and oranges. I can't think of any breed of chickens that were ruined by breeding to the SOP. Can you?

Walt

Walt

 

[berkeleysprings]

we have no dirt or top soil ita all shale pr what we call hard pan . we have nothing but trees no fields at all
i have watcheed the trees grow since 1970 . and the poor soil they dont grow and havent in 40 years lol no hope of diggin. i thought with all the leaves that fall frpm the oak and outher hard woods we would have soil .but no one inch of top soil and rest is rock ...
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Hmmm, good point! Yes, the clay dirt here is hard packed in the summer, and just a swamp here now. Oh, and can't forget the rocks!

Maybe I'll just wait till spring...

Same here in Cali. I have to put down a substrate of straw during the winter because of the clay.

Walt

 

[slick4591]

Please help me with my culling decision. I'm wanting to keep two of the cockerels. They are approx 4 month (Yes, I know they will be changing with time, but I need to make more room.) Also, they have been in the mud, so shank and toe feathers show it. This is the first they have seen a wire floor in three months, so not all are holding their tails correctly. Sorry, but I know there's lots of pictures to look at, but I didn't shoot two of them because I know I'm culling them. Thanks for your time.


Yellow band

Red Band

Blue Band

Green Band

Blue/White Band

 

[BarnGoddess01]

Debbi - here is "Ella" although I'm not convinced Ella is actually a girl ....

4 and a half weeks old

LOVE this shot

and one of my VERY pretty BCM pullets

 

[gilavina]

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happy almost birrhday perty girl u. tomarrow? or satueday ? hey do ya wanna go counntry daning . i can do a mean two step ang my west coast swing is commin along nice .not that im tooting my own horn

Ha ha Randy you are Happy Birthday'ing Gilavina aren't you....her birthday is tomorrow I believe....I still have until the New Years Eve for mine.

(my rendition of the West Coast Swing is more like West Coast Step on toes sorta thing....

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Happy Birthday Vicki!

haha nope...the big day's not til Saturday. Christmas Eve