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

[drom]

Hey, you know, are you sure she is lame? Because my Sicilian Buttercup was sick last week. She was acting neurologic; she was unbalanced and couldn't walk or stand very well. I took her to the vet and they took a bunch of tests and said it was her calcium levels. They were extremely low. They gave me a liquid called neocal. She has to be on it for 30 days. She is still weak but is walking better now.

 

[drom]

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Thanks for the great tips, Drom. Mystery is solved for this little guy. I just found him, wedged behind the hay bales I put in the pen to help keep their coop warm, as banking and to block the wind from the pop door. He must have suffocated.

At least I know a pred didn't get into the pen, because that just made no sense.....Poor thing, I guess sometimes, you just can't prevent a loss. Here I thought the hay bales would be helpful.


Katy, those are lovely.

OH, was he one of your BCs?

Well, at least you know what happened. I'm sorry.

 

[Solsken Farm]

Hey Karen, great news about Ms Cluck!

Gosh aren't those double yokers something? I have a red star and a Buff Orp that lay them regularly. I can't imagine a double yoke duck egg!


Drom, Yes, he was one of my Copper Blacks from Jesse. I had 3 cocks with really good coloring and 3 that for me have too much red in the breast. So I lost one of the good ones. He was a sweetie. I am relieved to know what happened, but hate losing any chick/chicken. Stuff happens.

I am so glad you started this thread, Drom!

edited for spelling

 

[karanleaf]

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Well I'm pretty sure she had full use of her right leg and foot but the left one just didn't move or she couldn't pull it up to her body like the other one. Just in the past few days she has been able to move her toes and was trying to stand on it this morning. SO I will get her out this evenong and see if she wants to try to walkon the carpet. Will let you know. She has had a well rounded diet. greens, tomato, potato, chuncks, even some salmon bits and pieces along with her feed and oyster shellgrounds. She may never want to leave the house.

Solsken Farm orry about the cockrell I use strawbales in the duck shed for insulation and yes it is very easy for them to sneak inbetween or behind them. I've had to get a few of my youngins out from behind them too, not dead though.. Again I'm sorry.
I have a couple of Young Cuckoo Marans cockrells that need to be rehomed before DH calls them lunch and dinner. Ya want them?

Karan

 

[drom]

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I love this web site-I've learned so much from people here. And, I think they do a really good job of moderating this site as well. It keeps it pleasant for everyone.

You know, Ron Presley was saying on the forum site that the red breasted males are important and you shouldn't get rid of them. I'm sure you already know this, but he was saying that the red breasted males are really important in keeping the copper hackles on the hens. If you have any pullets who don't have much copper on the hackles, perhaps the red-breasted cockerels will be useful for you.

 

[Solsken Farm]

Thanks for reminding me, Drom. I do remember reading that. This was one of my nicest cockerels, so it is a huge loss. But I have to say I was incredibly lucky. I bought 15 chicks and got 9 pullets and 6 cockerels. So now I am down to 5, which I will still have to pare down to 3 or 4. I did thank my lucky stars it wasn't a pullet.

 

[peewee]

cruzinTbird, Sorry that it has taken me awhile to get back here to this thread but I wanted to tell you that your boys are beautiful. If you start to sell eggs in the spring please keep me in mind.

 

[cruzinTbird]

Thanks! my boys are pretty colored. I will contact you this spring if I get extras to sell out of my Goldens. I am going to hopefully start another project with them if I can find some featherleg's to breed to so I can get that gene into my goldens. So I am looking for either Goldens or Cuckoo that are featherlegged.

 

[karanleaf]

I have an egg puzzle I hope someone here can help me with. I have currently 1 RIR hen, 4 Buff Orps, 6 Cuckoo Marans pullets, and 3 pullets that look to be Cuckoo Marans mixed? as they have yellow legs and beaks. The rest are Roos the RIR and the 4 Buffs are the hens we have been getting eggs from all this year. Some pink, light brown and brown, even 1 or 2 that were almost white. But today here are the eggs.

I have no idea which hen layed the blue one??? My pullets are almost 5 months but I dont think it was one of them. Any ideas?

I'm puzzled

 

[onthespot]

my guess is one of the "cuckoo marans mixes" might have been an attempt at an olive egger but didn't inherit the brown egg gene so it ended up with just blue, HOW COOL!!!