Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[gilavina]

Thatd be fun! lets do it! whens the show reg deadline? and the cost?

I'll have to go look at my catalog again, but I know its a double show, so the fee is 4 bucks per bird, but there are some nice benefits for it. I'll get some info to you in a PM when I look it over more carefully. If you want me to make you a copy, let me know in a PM with your addy and I'll get it set off to you!

 

[gilavina]

Hey Kim! I wish you were closer to me so you could come over and be a second pair of eyes for the breeding pens I'm working on. I'm gonna do some more culling (tighter than originally planned), but in the long run think I will get farther ahead this way.

 

[chevgrl]

Looky at my new baby

 

[gilavina]

Looky at my new baby

Ok...that second pic is literally so cute I think I might puke! I love that chunker! I'll have to get you a pic of my blue cuckoo boy growin out...he's three weeks old today and the patterning is coming in nicely so far!

 

[pinkchick]

Pink how many babies? I didn't see any action in mine yet, but they are not due till tomorrow. Got the electric in the new brooder and moved into the Nursery Room

I moved my youngest babies into the bottom brooder and will add babies from the bottom up. I need to move the batch with your other two Marans Chicks into the main shop. Just for more room.

11 fuzz balls so far. 15 eggs total.
4 left have pipped and one of them is almost here. I have one wrapped in a wet paper towel because he pipped near the wrong end made a good size hole I can see in. I could see he had started to dry out even though the humidity is at 63% and must have pipped a vein because there is some blood. I am watching that one closely.


Had one of the best days I have had in a great long while. My brother and his wife came up to pick up their chicks and ended up staying all day and I'm having a great hatch. It was good to spend the day with them and especially to spend that time with him as he is ill. He and I pulled up a seat on the floor next to the woodstove and chatted and laughed all day like we were kids again and hadn't missed a beat even though it had been more than 7 years since we have seen each other. What a good day!

 

[Christie Rhae]

I don't hatch out the little tiny first eggs, heck some of those first eggs don't even have a yolk, just albumen. Since the first time I found a small pullet egg and it didn't have a yolk..I always have to break every one of them open that I find to see if they are lacking. It's totally weird to crack open and egg not see a yolk.

Anyway, I have started hatching new layers eggs as early as about 5 weeks or after they have stopped laying their first very tiny pullet eggs. As long as they are fertile....toss them in and try them out. You will be surprised at what you can get to hatch.
I'd be out of my mind if I waited to hatch their eggs until the girls turned 1 year old.

Totally! I don't have any birds yet that I am desperate to breed but I have breeding plans in the future that will take a few generations and if I had to wait a year...shoot!
For now I am just playing around with hatching waiting for the rest of my birds to grow up. I have one BCM hen that is about 6 months and eggs are getting bigger so was thinking I could make olive eggers.
I guess I won't be ready to really breed my marans or ameraucanas until next year..sigh... maybe late fall at the earliest.

...thats me getting old waiting for chicks to grow up.. lol!

 

[gilavina]

11 fuzz balls so far. 15 eggs total.
4 left have pipped and one of them is almost here. I have one wrapped in a wet paper towel because he pipped near the wrong end made a good size hole I can see in. I could see he had started to dry out even though the humidity is at 63% and must have pipped a vein because there is some blood. I am watching that one closely.


Had one of the best days I have had in a great long while. My brother and his wife came up to pick up their chicks and ended up staying all day and I'm having a great hatch. It was good to spend the day with them and especially to spend that time with him as he is ill. He and I pulled up a seat on the floor next to the woodstove and chatted and laughed all day like we were kids again and hadn't missed a beat even though it had been more than 7 years since we have seen each other. What a good day!

I'm so glad that you had such a wonderful day!

 

[pinkchick]

Looky at my new baby

OMGOSH!!!!!!!!!! TOTALLY STINKIN' CUTE!!!!!!

 

[DMRippy]

11 fuzz balls so far. 15 eggs total.
4 left have pipped and one of them is almost here. I have one wrapped in a wet paper towel because he pipped near the wrong end made a good size hole I can see in. I could see he had started to dry out even though the humidity is at 63% and must have pipped a vein because there is some blood. I am watching that one closely.


Had one of the best days I have had in a great long while. My brother and his wife came up to pick up their chicks and ended up staying all day and I'm having a great hatch. It was good to spend the day with them and especially to spend that time with him as he is ill. He and I pulled up a seat on the floor next to the woodstove and chatted and laughed all day like we were kids again and hadn't missed a beat even though it had been more than 7 years since we have seen each other. What a good day!

 

[rsquared]

Awww Pinks, what a lovely day you had...so very glad for you. Seems as adults it becomes rare to have that special bro sis time as life leaps in and races on!!

Marans, marans,.....have 7 b/b/s babies from Madelynbelle in my brooder along w/ several OEs'' and Blue Plymouth Rocks. Love dem blues!!!