Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[chickenlisa]

what kind of humidity tray are you using? You could always set a sponge upright out of the pan and it will wick up water and releases the water quicker raising your humidity.

Its the plastic tray in the bottom of the Genesis Hovabator, but I'm wanting to dry incubate since I read so much about it being a great easy way to boost your hatch rates. I just put a different hydrometer in there to see if that'll give me an actual number%...and right now it's going down from 31% to 29% to 28%...so where it stops, no one knows. Do you advise keeping it up near 25-30% for the 1st 18 days? I can add warm water to the troughs in the bottom tray easily enough if you think...I'm turning on the auto turner shortly too, so I could do that at the same time once I know what the actual humidity is....
Thanks!

 

[pinkchick]

12 Olive eggs coming today from my Blue Copper boys that Mel has!!!!!!!!! Can't wait to see their color and have more Olive eggers here. The 2 OE girls that I have here that are Bill's daughters haven't laid an egg in almost 6 months!!! Talk about SLACKERS!!!!!!!!! At least the Marans didn't take that long of a vacation.



Morning Everyone! Hope you all have a WONDERFUL DAY!!!!!!

 

[pinkchick]

Baby pics anyone???

Pink these are your babies. The splash and the black with the funky feathers, I think are pullets and the blue a roo and HE is the only one with feathered legs.





Now that I see the feet, maybe the splash is a roo too.... we will see.




Ok these are mine that hatch before pink's by 3 days I think.

I think the blue is a roo and the black a pullet. The blue one has great feathered legs. These came out of Pink's roo and my pullets and some really dark eggs.






This is my feathered legged baby



This is Pink's baby



A sneak peek at the new bator. It is doing GREAT Loving it!

They are all adorable! I think I have only hatched out 1 Splash pullet so far...the rest have been boys. I certainly hope you get a girl out of them....but if not I can send more eggs in a while.

 

[DMRippy]

OMG that bator is HUGE!
And beautiful.

Thanks... it may not look like that long. I think I am going to have to insulate it more. The temp drops pretty quickly when the thermostat kicks off. But it is holding very well. Very happy with it. Anybody know of some pretty insulation? LOL

 

[DMRippy]

They are all adorable! I think I have only hatched out 1 Splash pullet so far...the rest have been boys. I certainly hope you get a girl out of them....but if not I can send more eggs in a while.

I can use a splash roo too.... I just sold mine so I could have more pen space.

 

[Hens and Roos]

Thanks... it may not look like that long. I think I am going to have to insulate it more. The temp drops pretty quickly when the thermostat kicks off. But it is holding very well. Very happy with it. Anybody know of some pretty insulation? LOL

you can get "pink" insulation sheets and there are a few other colors too and varying thickness.

 

[stoopid]

Hey, Bev just posted a link on the Marans website about genetics, VERY interesting.
Once again, I don't know how to link it....

 

[BarnGoddess01]

Hey, Bev just posted a link on the Marans website about genetics, VERY interesting.
Once again, I don't know how to link it....

Is this http://www.edelras.nl/chickengenetics/ the link you are referring to?

 

[stoopid]

Yes! I am not the computer geek. Thanks, Barbara

 

[Hens and Roos]

Its the plastic tray in the bottom of the Genesis Hovabator, but I'm wanting to dry incubate since I read so much about it being a great easy way to boost your hatch rates. I just put a different hydrometer in there to see if that'll give me an actual number%...and right now it's going down from 31% to 29% to 28%...so where it stops, no one knows. Do you advise keeping it up near 25-30% for the 1st 18 days? I can add warm water to the troughs in the bottom tray easily enough if you think...I'm turning on the auto turner shortly too, so I could do that at the same time once I know what the actual humidity is....
Thanks!

We have 2 homemade incubators and try to keep the humidity around 30-35% for days 1-18. We have a indoor/outdoor thermomter with humidty reading made by Acu-Rite and some mornings when we get up it is reading low and so we add some water and bring it back up in that range. Hope this helps.