Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Debbi]

Congrats Debbi!

that's sweeeeeet!
Wish I had your luck. My last batch of just 3 eggs did not hatch until day 23 also...

Thanks, but you'd better take that back about having my luck! NOBODY wants MY luck!!

I make the Murphy in Murphy's Law look like a lottery winner!

 

[pinkchick]

Crossbeak is more than likely genetic and definitely NOT something you want in breeding stock. So far, I've culled all my crossbeaks as younger chicks.

Barngoddess is right and it will pass along to offspring. I had a beautiful blue Ameraucana that had crossbeak, poor thing. Also, in my experience, I have seen crossbeak just keep getting more crossed as the bird ages, the more crossed it is...the harder it is for some of them to eat and drink and we all know what happens after that.

 

[pinkchick]

Debbi~ Congrats! Hope more pop out for you. What's Olivia's egg doing?

 

[gilavina]

mornin' all. I'm taking a break from chores for a few minutes. Its 80 already, which i can live with, but the humidity is just killin me. I've also got to move the all the girls I'm gonna be selling into one pen....that's gonna be fun haha
Its all gonna be worth it in the end when all I have left are birds I really love!

 

[Cadeau]

BarnGoddess - love the broody!!

Debbi - my "voice lessons" failed.

I put 3 young BCM and 1 BLRW cockerels in with two bantam cochins who have the sweetest crows - in the hopes that those 4 boys would sound like the bantam's musical crows...

I put 1 BCM in with the BLRW flock whose roo has a really annoying crow.


Anyhow - here at this farm, it appears that parentage makes the difference.
The BLRW has a really annoying crow like his father

I can tell exactly which roos the 4 BCM cockerels are by, just by their crows

No one sounds like my bantams....sigh....

Oh well....

 

[pinkchick]

Quote:
It kills me with delight when I hear banties crow.

 

[Cadeau]

Good luck, Vicki!
I'll bet you're excited!!

These are the days I wish I had a pool!

Used to be the best thing to stave off a heat headache - I'd come home from the stables, all sweaty and dusty - jump in the pool and float around until my core temperature cooled off.


I'm SO excited to be culling right down for that sale!!!

Is there anything I can cull for with 10 weeks and under other than obvious DQs??

 

[gilavina]

Good luck, Vicki!
I'll bet you're excited!!

These are the days I wish I had a pool!

Used to be the best thing to stave off a heat headache - I'd come home from the stables, all sweaty and dusty - jump in the pool and float around until my core temperature cooled off.


I'm SO excited to be culling right down for that sale!!!

Is there anything I can cull for with 10 weeks and under other than obvious DQs??

narrowness is something I cull for. Usually you can really start feeling the bone structure on a chick before 10 weeks and usually if they have no substance, they won't really get it.
When is your sale again?
Should be probably in the next two to 3 weeks that I take girls over. A few are kind of rough feathered from the boys, so just waiting it out til they get feathers coming back in. Most have pin feathers already, and I'm trying to break up some broodies that are making me crazy!

 

[Debbi]

BarnGoddess - love the broody!!

Debbi - my "voice lessons" failed.

I put 3 young BCM and 1 BLRW cockerels in with two bantam cochins who have the sweetest crows - in the hopes that those 4 boys would sound like the bantam's musical crows...

I put 1 BCM in with the BLRW flock whose roo has a really annoying crow.


Anyhow - here at this farm, it appears that parentage makes the difference.
The BLRW has a really annoying crow like his father

I can tell exactly which roos the 4 BCM cockerels are by, just by their crows

No one sounds like my bantams....sigh....

Oh well....

Mine failed on Clyde too. He sounds like a wolf howl played backwards! So did one of his sons! There was NO doubt in my mind whose kid that was, he crowed just like his dad. I love hearing my Silkies crow. One guy tries so hard to be loud, that at the end of the crow, all you hear is a whisper as he runs out of air! Funny, now my friend can tell me which roo is crowing over the phone.

 

[pinkchick]

Vicki~ Cute chicklets that you got from Anna! What leg feathering, WOW!

Got an egg from that suppose to be Silver (but is copper) Black Birchen pullet yesterday that rivals the egg color of my Black Copper pullets egg. I marked it as a test egg and put it in the 'bator this morning along with all the rest of the eggs I set.

So......since she is copper and not silver.....and has good egg color......what should I do with her????

She has light leg feathering....good, but not as heavily feathered as desired.....good temperment, slight high tail set (definitely not squirrel, but not so high she would be DQ'd). She is on the small side of the scale....very petite and dainty...not at all like the C-130 sized girls that I breed.

Will go out right now and snap a current photo of her.