Hello Everyone!
Been missing the Marans thread but have been busy buttoning up some loose ends getting ready to close our construction and remodeling business of 30+ years due to the economy and getting ready to re-enter the work force and work for the man. I am going to go back to work doing Nursing Administration for my former employer of almost 20 years. Oh how I can't wait for the bustle of and headache..but hey a job is a job. We think that DH is going to go do an apprenticeship at the local electrician hall...keep your fingers crossed.
Anyway.....enough of that....let's talk Marans. I sold my boy G2 the other day to a lovely young gal that is going to keep him with her flock of Barred Rocks. He is sorely missed already as he was a very sweet boy, but I know he is being well cared for and having the time of his life with his new girls, plus he doesn't have Bill Sr, knocking him around anymore so that makes me feel tons better. No matter what I did, I couldn't keep those 2 away from each other and from playing mirror mirror through the fence. Geesh they would get soooooo beat up through the fence....dummies! You would think that after living next door to each other for almost a year they would get over it already....NOT!!!!
Lil' Bill is doing great and so are all the ladies that are in with him. I continue to fill the 'bator with every available acceptable egg from his coop as I am trying to keep up with the demand for chicks.
Bill Sr. is now the king of the layer flock and loving life as a free ranger 24/7.
My Splash Copper boy is looking great at 4+ mos. old and so is the blue copper pullet that hatched from the same clutch, though she is not showing any signs of copper, but I surely do love her type and personality.
I lost the one and only Silver Birchen pullet that was actually showing silver and not yellow or gold.
I don't know what happened....they were out free ranging in the commons area one day and when I came home she was laying outside the coop door dead. No injuries that I could see anywhere on her. I am thinking heart attack possible induced by the hawks that have been visiting frequently of late. Now I only have 2 females, one that shows gold and the other is all black. I am very happy with the male that I kept that is showing silver and has fabulously feathered shanks and he is a chunk monster. He is a little skiddish so I have been working with him on that and he is doing pretty good.
Oh and STOO!!!!!!! I am such a goob....all this time I thought my little chickadee, your namesake was a male...but boy o boy was I ever wrong, LOL! She is turning into a very lovely and very large pullet.
