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

[lickskillet]

1mommahen wrote:

Can you tell sex at hatch on a BCM???

Hi! I went by the comb, and posted pictures here in this thread, and what I thought was 1 roo and 3 hens was spot on! So maybe look at their combs?? My roo had more pronounced points. Good luck!

 

[1mommahen]

Thanks lick! Just wondered if coloring was a dead giveaway or not! It looks very healthy and I hope one of them is a hen!

 

[1mommahen]

Oh forgot to ask, what page was your post on? Thanks!

 

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

9 peeps, 16 pips!

(including two of which I had suspected were duds)

 

[karanleaf]

Hi gang I know i haven't posted here in a while.

Congrats to those with new hatches and new chicks in their coops.

Ms Cluck is doing fine she has her very own penthouse.

I have been trying to perpare for an eggswap and collecting eggs well for the last couple of weeks I had only been able to find 1 or 2 Straight Cuckoo Marans eggs.

OMG You are not going to believe this....

welll

then again you just might

We have kept the day ranging ducks and chickens in today. We have noticed last night there are 6 very large predator birds flying and sitting in our Pine trees just 50 feet from our coop. Well most of the day there has been a hen pacing like crazy the corner by the pen door.


As soon as Noah goes to feed and water them again this evening that hen darts out, she goes right to our old central air unit.


This is why we have not gotten many straight Cuckoo Marans eggs this last couple of weeks.

So Dh and I got the pet carrier put it in the duck/chicken shed with fresh straw in it. Then we rounded the hen back in and gathered all the eggs.

So here she is getting the eggs in order.

Question Can I mark these eggs with something other than a pencil and not harm the developing chick? I wish to remove any new ones, so Anyone have suggestions???

Thanks

Karan

 

[klf73]

I have received them marked with sharpie and they hatched fine

 

[onthespot]

I have marked mine with a big ol fat felt tipped marker and they hatched fine too. Since then everyone gives me holy heck for it though so I use a pencil, which I can NOT see what I wrote because the eggs are so dark, but at least the chicks are safe....

 

[karanleaf]

Thanks gals,
I used a black crayon But when I went out to mark the 16 eggs DH and I put in the new nest and there were 18

someone snuk in a couple of new ones. There was no hen sitting on them though, so I will wait a few days. I will take all the newer ones out and leave the 18 just to see what happens. I only need 6 for the egg swap, so we will just wait and see.

I have Golden Cuckoo Marans eggs in the bator now

and some Millie Fleurs too

so just waiting

Well I gotta turn in
Good Night all

Karan

 

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

Quote:
I have Cuckoos hatching right now which were Sharpied.

 

[lickskillet]

1mommahen wrote:

Oh forgot to ask, what page was your post on? Thanks

Here's the page link, and I have more pics spread around after and before those on other pages too, but couldn't find them. LOL
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=77436&p=194​