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

[monarc23]

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oooo interesting!!!!

I'm deffiantly telling hubby

 

[Birch Run Farm]

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Jen,

No, the golden C eggs were not very dark. Most of my silver cuckoos lay darker eggs. The hatch rate was 4 out of 12 and it looks like I got two girls and two boys. Those are four expensive chicks! They are beautiful though, I need to get some better photos of them. I have been very busy boiling sap and splitting wood to do that.

 

[Mamaof10hens]

Here is our first egg buy our Silkie - Lady Jasmine von Poofyhead. My daughter's pride and joy!

 

[denasfarm]

I have FL Cuckoo Marans pipping and hatching today!
First one out!!! Roo??

LOOK at the Little Leg Feathers! (I am helping it stand, its foot is not crooked)

What do you guys think??

 

[Solsken Farm]

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Jen,

No, the golden C eggs were not very dark. Most of my silver cuckoos lay darker eggs. The hatch rate was 4 out of 12 and it looks like I got two girls and two boys. Those are four expensive chicks! They are beautiful though, I need to get some better photos of them. I have been very busy boiling sap and splitting wood to do that.

I can't wait to see the pics! Golden cuckoos are so pretty.

Denasmom, your chick is precious!!!!!! I am thinking pullet, but you'll know soon. The cockerels are lighter in color. The pullets are darker.

I love your daughter's little silkie egg mamaof10. Silkie eggs are so so sweet and tiny, just like the darling little bundles inside.

 

[SweetMissDaisy]

You could check the first row of feathers on the wing (the flight feather row). If the incoming feathers are all the same length, it's a roo... if they alternate between long and short, it's a pullet.

 

[SweetMissDaisy]

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Hahaa!! What a cute name!

 

[SweetMissDaisy]

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I should add, I just learned this trick. Check out this video on YouTube of a "how it's made" episode, showing the process at a hatchery. If you don't want to watch the entire video, the identification process is at about 3:20 into the video.

 

[monarc23]

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I should add, I just learned this trick. Check out this video on YouTube of a "how it's made" episode, showing the process at a hatchery. If you don't want to watch the entire video, the identification process is at about 3:20 into the video.

Isnt that only on certain breeds of chickens you can sex by wings? or is it every breed?

 

[SweetMissDaisy]

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I should add, I just learned this trick. Check out this video on YouTube of a "how it's made" episode, showing the process at a hatchery. If you don't want to watch the entire video, the identification process is at about 3:20 into the video.

Isnt that only on certain breeds of chickens you can sex by wings? or is it every breed?

I'm not sure ... but, I have a bunch of dutch bantam chicks right now (last weeks hatch), and they all seem to be pullets and they have the odd feather pattern. I have a silkie/frizzle chick that i would lay money on as being a roo just by characteristics, and it has even feather spacing. I also have a Mille Fleur/ Ameraucana cross that seems very pullet like, and "she" has odd feather spacing. I also bought some production red pullets... they all have odd feather spacing. So, at least with the chicks I have in house right now, I'm believing it to be accurate based on the characteristics the chick is showing... I'm hopeful anyway!