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

[geebs]

Ha ha... Chick fight!!!

We don't like the ones with "Bars upon thars"... says Dr. Suess...
We are the better one because we have "bars upon Thars"

Okay you can duke it out now... I have my popcorn

 

[berkeleysprings]

breeding bator-mates is fine from what i understand ( i copuld be completly wrong )breeding in a closed flock is normal , just be sure the trates you look for out of your closed flock is what u are looking for and your happy with the good and bad points of your parent stock if i understand this stuff correctly breeding in a closed flock (bator buddies )can sometimes do whats called "locking in the trates "say for instance if u have booth parrent stock that has to little feathering on the shanks i think more likely the chicks will have little feathering on the shanks and it will carry on to off spring cull heavy for the conformation your looking for eventually you should cull the parrent stock keeping only the best offspring and mantaining the number of birds you want to keep . in my case the only part that would scare me is being sure the black coppers you have are not mixed , now as for the wheatens and blue wheatens mixing i havent a clue ..... i was told as far back as a year ago to keep the rooster that came from origonal darkest egg and breed his daughters form dark eggs back to him to improve the egg color . somewere in this blog a verry verry nice person(resolution) posted some stufff saying the opposite or thats how i read it (wich confused me totaly) but the ladder to me the carpenter (new to chickens ) keeping thew roo is the way to go because you can tell by the egg color he came from but a new roo you get you dont know for sure unless you hatch it your self . take everything i say with a hudge grain of salt and i hope i added some thought to your question .
this might be just my plan with my flock sorry i ramble on here and more importantly i am sorry i butcher spelling
lol lol

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[berkeleysprings]

oops i read right threw the cuckoo chicken kicking , i never candone any chicken kicking no matter what the race creed or color but they sure are yummy


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[geebs]

If ya kick em a little it makes them tender.... ha ha ha... (okay so not funny).... Only kick the mean roosters.

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

Calm down peeps I am only using him for olive eggers..

 

[kathyinmo]

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You are just about the sweetest man!

 

[drom]

OK, mission accomplished.

They're in:

However, I have a question for everyone. This egg tray doesn't have much space, so I had to make tough decisions on egg selection. In a couple cases, I took smaller eggs that were slightly darker over big fat round ones that were not quite as dark, but still acceptable. Now, I am thinking that was a mistake. Because, I think I want to breed for the big, spherical, fat shape as well as color.

I would think that the large egg is also better for chick development.
They've been in there for a couple hours, I should I swap um?

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

Beautiful

Good luck with your 1st hatch!!!

 

[chickenherder]

Very very nice

Maybe remove the divider sections and cut a 30 egg crate to fit the tray?

Don't know if it's possible or if it will even hold more eggs, just a thought.

Strips of foam or sponge to keep the different sized eggs from moving to stuff in a couple more?

Does the tray tilt somehow or do you hand turn?

Best of luck, I just fired up my sportsman hasn't been on since last October!


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[drom]

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Thank you very much. well, it will hold 2 more eggs, but not with this universal egg try. There is a standard tray you can buy for it that has 20 egg shaped holes in it and you sit the eggs in the holes. I can't put a crate in because the floor actually automatically moves from right to left every hour and rolls the eggs. So they have to touch the floor. I am wondering though if I pull the last divider out on the right, if I could fit another egg in ...