Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Debbi]

For those of you that have never seen the movie, "My Cousin Vinny", you need to watch it for a good laugh! It helps though, if you are from the East Coast, as people in the mid west and west may not catch the NY humor. I am originally, a CT Yankee, and my first husband was a Brooklyn boy. I had seen it years ago, and I got Netflix the other day, so I started with this movie. I laughed till I hurt last night!! Joe Pesci and Marissa Tome, and Fred Gwynne (aka Herman Munster) is the Alabama judge. Typical Brooklyn vocabulary, so if you have an adversion to the F word, it may not be for you. I may just have to watch it again today as I wait for my WHEATEN MARANS eggs to start pipping!

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: NO WAY! Did you get rid of your roo? If so you need to grow them all up for a replacement..... dang I hate it when people do things like that. Once I make my mind up to get rid of a bird and put them up for sale, I follow through. I have come to expect people that say they want a bird to no follow through, but that is different.

Maybe she will change her mind again.....

down the road. Sorry!

 

[DMRippy]

Here's my BCM x BLRW pullet!

Her legs are sparsely feathered with BLUE LACED RED feathers

Pretty!

 

[Debbi]

She just emailed me back....and has changed her mind about getting rid of him.


FOR REAL?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Looks like I better be hoping for a little cockerel or two to be in this bunch hatching now.

Sounds to me like she thought you wanted him too much, so there was something there in him that she didn't see before?? I hate it when that happens! Kind of like finding a hidden treasure at a yard sale for a cheap price. I learned the hard way to put on my poker face, and just hand them the money. Grab the item and sloooowly walk to the truck, painfully choking down that primal scream of sheer JOY!!!

There is plenty of time for jubilation once you are in the car, and speeding down the highway!!

 

[Bangarang64]

I may just have to watch it again today as I wait for my WHEATEN MARANS eggs to start pipping!

Send me an extra roo if you get one!

 

[buckabucka]

Quote: Ha! This is a hilarious description.

 

[DMRippy]

I HAVE BABIES! 1 blrw and 1 from pinks eggs EEs 2 BR yeah! I know there is more I cant see them

 

[zooweemama]

(please excuse the watermarks. i share my images on my business fb page sometimes so i have to mark them)

Here is a week old Black Copper Marans from a Bev Davis Line.


chickie kisses?

 

[desertmarcy]

I am so disheartened this morning. I am having major picking problems--I have a 25'x10' grow-out pen for the Marans pullets, there are 7 blue coppers and 17 black coppers in there, 2-3 months old. I found one of the smaller ones with her butt all picked and bloodied this morning. I sprayed the area with Furasol and isolated her. Finished feeding and watering some of the other birds, maybe took 15 minutes, went back to fill the feeder in the grow-out pen and there was another one picked! Same thing, smaller pullet, butt all bloodied. I found a third that was starting to be picked, her butt was just a little raw, not bloodied yet. I sprayed both of these birds also, and isolated the bloodied one. I hope they make it. I don't know if it is just one bird that is doing this or not. Of course they don't do it when I am out there and it is too hot to sit and watch. Early morning, there is a lot of shade in the front part of the pen, and that's when I saw the problem. By 9:00, there is only a small strip of shade in the back of the pen, and all the pullets are huddled back there until the sun moves around and there is shade again over more of the pen. Which means if I sit out there to watch them, I would have to be sitting in the sun and I can't. I just don't know what to do! I lost (died) a cockerel in the cockerel grow out pen yesterday, his butt was all bloodied. I am assuming he was picked and died and not that he died and then was picked. That pen is on the other side of the large yard and has a lot more shade, a lot of space. I don't know if it is the heat that is causing this, too much boredom, too many birds in pens, combination? I had a little bit of problem with some Orloffs I'm growing out, but not with any of the other breeds. I am wondering if the Marans as a breed do not take confinement as well. The 2 pullets that were bloodied badly are nice---they are ones I am keeping, nice black, no mossy, nice copper hackles. I am so upset!! I don't have anyplace else to move the birds or thin them out, I've got a sale ad on CraigsList right now selling 2-3 month old pullets $15 each buy 5 or more and I've thinned them out by selling, but still 4 or 5 left to sell from that pen. I've thought about ordering some of those peepers---always thought those were just for big commercial operations!! Anybody ever try them? They are supposed to stop picking. I am desperate. Any ideas on how to identify the culprit if it is just one bird doing the picking?

 

[SarniaTricia]

desertmarcy

Try:
treats (Cabbage) hung from the ceiling or just on the floor - boredom
Increase your feed to 22% - protein deficiency
get a big umbrella for the run (or some other shade) - increase the space they have to move around
Branches in a corner - somewhere for the "picked on" to run and hide and gives some vertical space

All the suggestions I could think of ..... hope things go better..If I wasn't so far away, I would help you with the overcrowding.
Patricia