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

[tfpets]

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Pretty birds and what fun they are having! The colors are beginning to show nicely on your BC Cockeral....the changes as they grow are so interesting to see develop. Thanks for the pics!

 

[Rockpile99]

Here's pics of my two clean legged Cuckoo Cockerels. I can only keep one and need help deciding who is the best one to keep.


Both together - Well call Roo #1 the one on the left.

Roo #1

Roo #2

I'll post more pics later. Whew was the uploading slow this morning!

Thanks for any help you can give!

ETA - Sorry, forgot to tell you that they are 10 weeks old.

 

[monarc23]

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Pretty birds and what fun they are having! The colors are beginning to show nicely on your BC Cockeral....the changes as they grow are so interesting to see develop. Thanks for the pics!

Yeppers I can't wait to see both Boot and Pokerface as full feathered adults!

The hens are starting to get in their copper coloring as well it's just hard to pick up in the pics

JUST a week ago both the roos were smaller and had less color its AMAZING how fast they are growing now! IMO they are slow growers (least mine are) but now that they're almost laying age they're really starting to fill out. Boots needs to fill out a lot more he's working on it though

 

[cottagegarden]

It can actually take a year for them to mature for type and color that's why its important to hold back your cockerels as long as you can(can put up with crowing..the squabbles..the harassing of the hens...(0: )

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

Just got their new saddels!!!

Look how cute!!!

I think he likes

 

[Chicky Tocks]

What a gorgeous bunch of girls and guy! I love their new saddles and that tractor is my envy! My DH is finishing up my new coop for the EE's today and I've told him that I need one for the Marans, but he's petered out...soooo I've been looking at tractors to consider something that I myself can build...I dunno if I have the mad skillz needed to do this but I'm seriously going to give it a go.

 

[monarc23]

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crowing is fine (Boots just started the other day and he only crows when locked up other wise hes quiet as a mouse) and he sounds like he's going through human puberty whenhe does it

 

[tberggren]

I am so bummed!! I had put a dozen BC Marans under my broody, four I put in the incubator. The four I put in the incubator had scrambled yokes. I had been afraid of that because the eggs were shipped in a Priority Box that had no markings what-so-ever on it to indicate the contents were fragile much less alive.

To bad because the eggs were packaged great and none were even cracked, yet I was still worried.

So I wasn't surprised about the four, however I had hopes that at least some of the dozen under the broody would be ok. About 6 days ago she tossed one egg out of the nest. I was excited because I thought that maybe the others were ok. Wow 11 babies, I was very excited.

But turns out the only egg she hatched was one she laid and when I broke open all the eggs they were all scrambled. No BC Marans, I was so hoping for some girls to put with my boy from Jeanie.

Thanks for listening
Theresa

 

[monarc23]

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awh

im sorry to hear that!

 

[Zgoatlady]

I had 14 BC eggs sent to me and they where so nice and dark. Will small story short not one did anything so the guy is sending me some didnt tell me how many but Im going to give it another try..
In the mean time I have ok Im crazy I have 26 chicks that are BC of all different ages. Will the first 11 I think I have 2 maybe 3 hens. The next 5 I think maybe 3 hens and than the others maybe 3. I hope I hope...but I figure if I did it this way that I would keep the best and toss the rest LOL.... Have some really nice roos...And yes have about 12 eggs shipping as we speak..

I know Im sick...