Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[pinkchick]

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I want copper on my girls like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stunning! Just STUNNING!!!!

 

[DMRippy]

I have two olive eggers I need to get pictures of. They have the best copper on their necks.... now if I could just get that on my MARANS

 

[Debbi]

DON'T cull your roos till they are 4-6 months. You will only get a glimpse of what they will look like in a month or two from now. They change a lot!

Well, there are certain things you can cull for before that time. Like she said, clean shanks, they're not miraculously coming in at 6 months or ever, GONE! Wry tail, gone! Squirrel tail, unless it's only one or two stray sickle feathers and the back has good length, GONE! Poor color, like straw or golden hackle/saddle feathers (except for my stupid Pip

) GONE! Any deformities like cross beaks, split or slipped wings, gone! Some people say with the split wing that that can change. I had one roo here that showed it at a very early age, and it never changed. I think I could see it in him at around 5 weeks, GONE! With the lack of space and the price of feed these days, I can't afford to be generous any more...just saying.

 

[pinkchick]

My personal thoughts on breeding Blacks to Blues and Blacks to Splash and Blue to Blue and Blue to Splash is...........................................if they weren't meant to breed to one another.... Mother Nature would not have given them to us this way.

 

[pinkchick]

I have two olive eggers I need to get pictures of. They have the best copper on their necks.... now if I could just get that on my MARANS

I have lost color in the necks of the girls since the first generation. Now I am lucky if I see girls with 1 or 2 copper feathers in their hackles that you can see without straining. The others have it....it is just very very dark. Foo-ey!


Packing your eggs right now Donna. There are 20 of them. DH is taking them to the post office for me today as I must stay here and get the gardens finished. He says I owe him big for doing chicken business for me......LOL.....yesterday he was fielding chicken phone calls too.

 

[pinkchick]

Ok, not Marans, but I just saw this joke and thought, who couldn't use some humor?? It is poultry related.

A woman brought a very limp duck into a veterinary surgeon. As she laid her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the bird's chest. After a moment or two, the vet shook his head and sadly said, "I'm sorry, your duck, Cuddles, has passed away."
The distressed woman wailed, "Are you sure?"
"Yes, I am sure. Your duck is dead," replied the vet..
"How can you be so sure?" she protested.
"I mean you haven't done any testing on him or anything.
He might just be in a coma or something."
The vet rolled his eyes, turned around and left the room.
He returned a few minutes later with a black Labrador Retriever.
As the duck's owner looked on in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put his front paws on the examination table and sniffed the duck from top to bottom. He then looked up at the vet with sad eyes and shook his head.
The vet patted the dog on the head and took it out of the room.
A few minutes later he returned with a cat. The cat jumped on the table and also delicately sniffed the bird from head to foot. The cat sat back on its haunches, shook its head, meowed softly and strolled out of the room.
The vet looked at the woman and said, "I'm sorry, but as I said, this is most definitely, 100% certifiably, a dead duck."
The vet turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and produced a bill, which he handed to the woman..
The duck's owner, still in shock, took the bill. "$150!" she cried, "$150 just to tell me my duck is dead!"
The vet shrugged, "I'm sorry. If you had just taken my word for it, the bill would have been $20, but with the Lab Report and the Cat Scan, it's now $150."

Hee hee heee! Sharing with my mommy, she will love this one! Thanks for posting this Debbi, you are right, sometimes it's good to have some humor.

 

[pinkchick]

Love the puffy cheekers Vicki!!!!!

 

[stoopid]

Pink, you forgot about the stoopid comb..... GONE!

 

[laughingclown]

DON'T cull your roos till they are 4-6 months. You will only get a glimpse of what they will look like in a month or two from now. They change a lot!

I would only cull for major things like a screwed up comb or something. Unfortunately I can Ill afford to keep this many roosters for that long. Plus I want to make sure I have plenty of room for the birds. I don't want them to be on top of each other. I Plan to keep to Roos. That's it. My neighbors tolerate my hobby for now. But where I live the city said if they get a complaint they are coming for me. So I hope it all works out.

 

[pinkchick]

Pink, you forgot about the stoopid comb..... GONE!

Okay....I'm slow this morning and I don't think I am getting it.

Oh, hey, Stoo did you see the Blue Laced Barnie project egg that I posted a photo of with that pathetic Birchen egg a few days back?





Debbi~ Forgot to say thanks for the compliment on the project egg and yes it reminds me of those malted thingies too. I love those....how come they are so hard to find the rest of the year when it is not Easter?