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

[Lotsapaints]

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Mean girls I hope mine don't get that way but who knows what Bill did reminds of the song won't ya marry me Bill.....that's why it's so hard to write a standard because the way it's supposed to work is by breeding to the standard you get all the correct attributes...I'm glad I'm not in charge of that....still really like BerkleySprings Roo I hope your stock improves using him

 

[NewHen]

Three of my four BCMs from Greenfire Farms/Bev Davis pen turned out to be males. I have two cockerels left. One has more than 5 points on his comb, but I think they are nicely colored. Their neck and saddle fathers look darkish reddish orange, and not light orange. I hatched them in May and they're already almost big as my older chickens from March. If anyone is interested and can pick them up in Encino, please let me know. I want them to end up in good homes and not dinner plates.

 

[kathyinmo]

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I hear Marans meat is excellent. Why not process them? That is my plan with all these extra roosters I have. I am gonna have a freezer full for winter, that's for sure!

 

[pinkchick]

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Mean girls I hope mine don't get that way but who knows what Bill did reminds of the song won't ya marry me Bill.....that's why it's so hard to write a standard because the way it's supposed to work is by breeding to the standard you get all the correct attributes...I'm glad I'm not in charge of that....still really like BerkleySprings Roo I hope your stock improves using him

Ohhhh, we all know what Bill did!

It happened to him when I put him in the laying flock so that I could do some testing with him....introduction between fences went fine, but......once he actually made it into the flock, some of my older and much meaner BR hens just weren't going to take much of his funny business and they let him know it. Glad that I did put him in there because from those test crosses I was able to verify that he is not a Black Copper as he was suppose to be but rather a very dark dark Blue Copper, but he does make some very pretty olive eggers, now if they would only lay their first eggs.

 

[NewHen]

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I hear Marans meat is excellent. Why not process them? That is my plan with all these extra roosters I have. I am gonna have a freezer full for winter, that's for sure!

Well, they're my 5 year old daughter's pets. She can't have dogs and cats due to allergies. She calls herself their mother and pretends to be a chicken. If we killed them, I don't think she'd ever eat chicken again. (BTW, my grandmother served up my mother's pig and my mother has never eaten meat since). I even found nice homes for our two defective Ameracaunas.

 

[gvntofly05]

Good news everyone! I woke up this morning to 2 pips!

Let's hope they hatch easily. Now if the other 7 would do something.

 

[Debbi]

 

[pinkchick]

Right On gvntofly!!!!!!! I will be watching all day today for updates! Go chickies!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[gvntofly05]

Oh Noooo! My 4 1/2 year old heard the peeping coming from the bator and pulled out one of the pipped eggs. Right as I walked into the kitchen my 16 mo. old knocked the egg out of the older ones hand.

I quickly grabbed the egg and noticed a little blood at the bottom of it. I wrapped it in warm wet paper towels as fast as I could and got it back in the bator. It's still moving and peeping.

I feel so bad for this poor chick. My oldest one is in her room crying right now, she thinks the baby is going to die.

Any suggestions on anything else I can do, besides keeping it moist and just watching it?

On a lighter note I now have a 3rd pip!!

 

[Wynette]

Awe...sorry for the dropped egg...hopefully it will make it. Not much else you can do but watch, hope, pray if you're the praying type!