Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

[drom]

Ahahahah!!!!

All those birds and eggs are just so beautiful Greg and Oblio! It really does make me long for some Wheaties of my own.
But I have enough to keep me busy right now.

I had no idea the Wheatens had beige fuzzy-butts. I had never heard anyone mention that before.

 

[CHICKEN little 1]

ninjapoodles wrote:
Oblio13 wrote:
ninjapoodles wrote:
Oblio, he's gorgeous! And he *does* have a beige hiney, doesn't he?

I can't be sure, I don't want the neighbor's to see me checking out a chicken's butt too closely.

Surely they've seen worse by now?

I'm taking the fifth amendment.


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That is soooo funny! Thanks for the laugh.

 

[CHICKEN little 1]

drom wrote: Ahahahah!!!!

All those birds and eggs are just so beautiful Greg and Oblio! It really does make me long for some Wheaties of my own.
But I have enough to keep me busy right now.
I had no idea the Wheatens had beige fuzzy-butts. I had never heard anyone mention that before.


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Maybe no one wanted anyone to know they actually looked at their chicken butts!

 

[drom]

Well it is funny-I never noticed that before on the adult Wheatens. Ok, that was my lesson from the thread for this evening.

 

[drom]

Here's some of the eggs from last week. This carton is going to my Mom.

I got my first really strangely painted eggs today. My 3 pullets laid 4 eggs between last night and this afternoon and two of them had a really rough surface and were unevenly painted. Those are the first ones I've gotten like that. I am assuming they both came from the same bird and she just laid two in a very short period so they didn't have time to get painted properly. I will try to post a pic tomorrow.

I think my girls need a rest from the roosters they are losing the feathers on their backs and necks.

Do anyone's hens get that way and should I be separating them from the roos? I just hate the idea because then I have to worry about re-introducing them later, but my poor little hens.

 

[ninjapoodles]

Denise, those eggs are to die--I love how you have them alternated in the carton. They deserve a fancy velvet box!

I got an egg just LIKE that today! It looks like it's airbrushed two different colors, really weird, and it's rough, matte, like you said. What is up with that?

 

[AngelzFyre]

I got a strange egg today too from one of my marans girls! Must be the moon? It looked like a brown paper sack that got wet and crumpled up on the outside.

Only the favorites seem to loose the back and neck feathers, so I ordered chicken saddles to put on mine.
Takes them a few hours to get used to them but then they don't mind. The roo could care less, it saves me from having to separate and then re introduce them. The feathers eventually grow back out underneath the saddles.

ALL my Orpington hens wear the saddles because that roo is more aggressive with his girls, only 4 Marans girls wear them so far because that roo is just starting out and doesn't seem to be as aggressive.

HTH!

 

[tfpets]

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What a beautiful combination! Those eggs are sooooo pretty!
Tina

 

[drom]

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Thanks NP. You can't tell because the picture is a little too bright, but my sweet EE lays the prettiest green eggs. They look really nice next to the BC eggs. My Mother will love them.

Yes, the surface of those uneven ones is like sandpaper. If Onthespot hadn't posted a pic of one of those before, I would thinking something was wrong with one of my hens. I guess they can all lay one of those from time to time.

 

[Krys109uk]

Drom....beautiful eggs..... are those blue eggs from your EE birds? What nice colour.