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

[geebs]

Illia I don't know if this helps but I have hatched a lot of glossy eggs with no problem, however I did have a chicken with the same eye problem... I chalked it up to humidity originally but it could just be an issue in the Davis line. I would ask Bev about it. I only had it show up one time, however the chicken was blind in both eyes...Too bad as it was my best blue copper...Ask pinkchick about hatching the Lavender eggs... They have a really thick coating on them... If anything would be difficulty to hatch it would be those I would think... as they have a super thick bloom on them... so much so that it changes the appearance of the egg color. I have the same thing, I have never hatched them. I get lots of glossies and they hatch just fine.

Sorry for taking so long to answer... I hope this helps. Are they from your chickens or are they shipped? If they are from yours that would be a good "experiment" to find out and share. You get a couple of cutting boards made out of mylar and cut them to use in a foam bator 1588 or whatever.. You collect your egg for 4 or 5 days from each hen and mark them... Set them according to each hen in the divided bator...(you can do 4 hens at a time easily) You can keep track of hatch rates etc this way (band them as you take them out or divide them into separate tanks)...I will find my camera and send you a pic of what I rigged up.

About the flopping comb... It looks straight up and down to me and some of the combs get very large and still stand straight up... so

 

[pinkchick]

About the heavily coated purplish eggs........today will tell the tale if I can get them to hatch. Haven't been able to get one to hatch yet. I have 6 of them in the bator right now, they are still rocking and its day 21.

 

[CrittersMommy]

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Thanks so much Pinkchick! I was afraid the first two were boys!

Is it normal for wheatons to show up out of blue coppers? I thought it would just be blue copper, bc and splash?

Thanks again!

 

[geebs]

Cool PinkChick.... keep us posted... We could start a new line of Lav-eggers

he he

 

[geebs]

That brings up a thought for a anatomical expert.... Anyone out there know where to post this??? Where is Res when ya need 'im.... :Is it possible that the extra coating is the same as the "paint" and that it just doesn't contain enough of the pigment? or is it just part of the bloom????

 

[flgardengirl]

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Nice eggs geebs, congratulations

I ordered some bcms from bayhorsebonnie that are due to arrive today too. Yeah! I just stuck some golden cuckoo eggs in the bater last night, finally getting some 'friends' for my one lone light golden cuckoo marans boy.

Lolita: those are beautiful roos! I would keep both if you can, a good roo is hard to find

What did you name them?

 

[pinkchick]

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Thanks so much Pinkchick! I was afraid the first two were boys!

Is it normal for wheatons to show up out of blue coppers? I thought it would just be blue copper, bc and splash?

Thanks again!

Some lines of BC's throw Wheaten chicks (not Bev Davis birds though unless they have been out crossed with another line), I would call the person that you purchased from and ask about the breeder origins of their stock. That last chick has me vexed.....if it is a true Marans...I wonder if there was a Salmon Marans some where in the back ground?

Oh your welcome!

 

[pinkchick]

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I'm no expert but I do not think that it is "the paint" because the eggs under that coating are usually a nicely colored egg. I would think that if the egg underneath is normal it couldn't be the paint dept. I've had a Welsummer do the same thing.

 

[pinkchick]

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That's EXACTLY why I am trying to hatch them!!!!!!!

 

[geebs]

That is kinda what I figure too... but ???? What if they put several layers of color on??? and this is part of the undercoating...That would be fantastic... It is the same thickness and texture as the paint on one of my other chickens that lay a nice chocolate... and it has a light brown undercoating covered with dark red and then the light bloom... Just a thought.