Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

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BarnGoddess01 said:
Well said, Wynette!! I gained more from "lurking" at Crossroads than I ever imagined possible. Made contacts with experienced breeders and was able to ask questions with real live birds there to demonstrate. Listening to conversations between them as they compared birds also gave me MUCH to think about. (Also ended up coming home with fancy-pants Silkie eggs which started a whole new craze but I digress ...
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) I'm also lucky to have a real live "Master Breeder" and active APA judge very near to me and most willing to offer advice which is invaluable - and a local poultry club loaded with old-timers happy to advise, for what it's worth.

Can't wait for the Ohio Nationals in the fall. Sounds like that one is a well attended show as well.
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Barb, you will love the Ohio National at Columbus. They have more quality sale birds than most shows have entered in the show. Lot of your fellow Canadians also show there on a regular year. I go there every year and lately just as a spectator only.
 
snowbird said:
Barb, you will love the Ohio National at Columbus. They have more quality sale birds than most shows have entered in the show. Lot of your fellow Canadians also show there on a regular year. I go there every year and lately just as a spectator only.
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I've been toying with the idea of trying to make it since I've heard to many good things about it, but am not sure if I'll be able to pull it off. I have the show I'm secretary for the weekend before, so don't know if I'll be able to get additional time off or not to go. Especially since you told me that there are usually silver penciled wyandottes there!
 
gilavina said:
I've been toying with the idea of trying to make it since I've heard to many good things about it, but am not sure if I'll be able to pull it off. I have the show I'm secretary for the weekend before, so don't know if I'll be able to get additional time off or not to go. Especially since you told me that there are usually silver penciled wyandottes there!
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Vicki, you would also be able to see some of the best Silver Laced Wyandotte large fowl in the usa. Some of the very best come from the man north of the border. They have the largest sale bird area I have seen .
 
I thought some of you might be interested in the response I received from Dr. Robert Hawes, professor emeritus at the University of Maine. He also breeds bantams.

" The genetics of fowl is no different than the genetics of mammals. The big difference is that in fowl the female is the heterogametic sex and the male is the homogametic sex. Just the reverse of mammals."


Unfortunately, yesterday was a day I kept running into posts saying chicken genetics are different than horses. Made no sense to me. Dr. Hawes helped me feel sane again. Many genes are linked to other genes, afterall a whole chromosome is duplicated and split. THen the crossing over, etc.

Ok, back to the regularly scheduled programming . . .. skunks and opposums .. . .lol
 
gilavina said:
hmmm....if they weren't alarmed, that tells me they might be more used to them than what you might guess...whether he's stayed in the perimeter of your property or etc...I'm wondering if he hasn't been snooping around on you at night while you've been sleeping. When I first moved back here and my oldest brother came to visit we were up really early one morning with my mom and standing in the kitchen getting coffee and my brother and I happened to look out the window to see an absolutely GIANT possum crawl over the fence bordering the cemetery next to us and he just walked up the length of the property to the barn and sauntered right in...all while two of the cats at the time were lounging in the doorway...he stepped over one of them and they didn't even flinch. He'd been doing it for some time, going and stealing cat food. Well...we shot him and he was closer to 40 lbs than 30...that's for sure.
I also have a friend..the one that bought all my Cuckoos at the sale I took them to...and he has a skunk problem, and the cats and the skunks eat right alongside each other from the food dish, like its natural. It still baffles me that my friend hasn't taken care of the problem yet, but then again, not my place, so I don't get to decide, but if it were me, I would not have them anywhere near the place.
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Yes, that was something I thought about too! I can smell those things even if I was in a coma! I have a great sense of smell, so if this stinky has been traveling through here at night, I'm pretty sure I would've smelled him, even with the AC on. I don't leave cat food out for the cats either. They get fed in the late afternoon, and all feed is scarfed up while I watch. Gees, I'd have shotgun holes in my floors if a possum ever came into my house! Don't know about shooting a skunk inside though, the smell of those things make me ill to this day. I got sprayed by one in my late teens! It was NOT pretty, and I sure don't ever want a repeat!!
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