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

[bargain]

Do you have a link on how you made that...It's really cool looking!

 

[poultryhaven]

Hi, I got eggs from 4Kidz and i hatched out 18 marans! 11 are 3-5 days old but were 1-3 days old in the pics. 7 of them are 2 weeks old.
I have some BCM's, Blues, a couple Cuckoo's and 2 Wheatens!
The Wheatens are huge! lol and they are my favorite

I'm selling all of them so if your in florida they are for sale

I hatched out some mix breeds with them and a serama so excuse those lol

Heres the little

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2 week olds (all BCM's and Blues):

Newly hatched (excuse the mix breeds)

Huge Wheaten

and the other Wheaten towering over a little bantam chick lol:

 

[evonne]

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hhmmm i may have to find me a couple of these... is that color fairly common??

 

[60ACRES]

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I like it alot! She is awful purty! How are her eggs?

 

[drom]

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I like it alot! She is awful purty! How are her eggs?

Thanks

She hasn't started laying yet. She is from a clutch of 5 chicks that hatched out in July and they are the only offspring from my favorite hen that I lost last summer. The first Gen hens had real good egg color that didn't fade in their first year. So I am hoping the daughters will be the same, but you never know.

 

[millebantam]

Thanks. I actually built it from an old wooden tool chest that I bought at a yard sale for 5 bucks. I use it as a hatcher. I used the leftover materials from the incubator that I built. Here's a pic of the incubator.

[/img] And here's a pic of the tool chest with the viewing window cut out before it was a hatcher.

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[kathyinmo]

I just finished part one, of my three part staggered hatch! I have 13 more Black Copper Marans chicks! YAY!! I won't bore you with a picture .... as they all look alike at hatch, don't they! LOL I'm anxious, already, to see what I end up with in the end!

 

[TerriLaChicks]

So, in a well-bred Marans hen, how long does the dark egg color actually last? Are they good for 1 or 2 years, --or, is it cyclical every year, meaning they start out dark every laying season & then the eggs lighten as the season progresses. Or do they keep a certain amount of very dark eggs throughout their lifetime, at the beginning of their egg cycle?

 

[pinkchick]

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Kathy~ Boring to look at fuzzy butts??? NEVER!

Congrats, congrats, congrats.......aren't they great!!!!!

 

[Resolution]

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STEVE in North Carolina I have exactly no idea who you are. My name is Kermit Blackwood and you have grievously slandered me here. Your comments are so offtrack-both about my experience with Marans and my personal character. If I wasn't so flummoxed with reading this out of the blue- I would very nearly have been entertained.
Why is it that people feel that they must build up straw monsters so they can just burn them down? 1. How many years ago was this? I seem to recall that line was received in the year 2000. That is ten years ago! You are making up a rumour and spreading it around - about some incidents that supposedly happened 10 years ago!
A Denzeli fowl? Are you serious? That is one of the most ridiculous things I have Ever heard.
Anyone who actually wants to learn about the Cabbage Hill Farm Foundation's Marans project can contact me personally or the foundation. Better yet, contact Martha Stewart and ask her who she sent to France to procure new lines of Marans. Many people claimed to have Leurquin and next to none actually received any. I don't hear many people complaining or discussing other lines that we are stewards of. For example, I have the last of the pure Ripley strain at my farm and no I have never so much as ventured a thought of selling them or any other heirloom strains of cultural heritage breeds that we have imported or maintain as stewards and conservationists of.

I'm actually not nor have I ever been in the chicken selling business. Thanks for providing me with an opportunity to call you out on your Fox News Party style ambush and attempted character assassination. You are the persecutor. That means you shoulder the burden of proof in substantiating these defamatory claims- not only against me personally, but also Bev Davis, who is a delightful, generous and very honest woman. And by the way, Bev is civil, with outstanding manners and a healthy dose of class.
Bev is incredibly conservative when it comes to selective breeding and what you claim is complete dog poop. You obviously have some personal issue with her and are using my slandered reputation to attack her credibility. That is pathetic and transparently manipulative of you. I notice that there is no last name nor phone number listed on your website.
What do you have to hide? I would very much love to bend your ear, whoever you are. Most people that actually are in the business of selling their stock list their last names, phone numbers and addresses, unless of course they are untrustworthy/not trusting same thing in my book. By the way, Spalding Peafowl are hybrids between an endangered species and a domestic version of another species of peafowl. To produce and sell genetically contaminated stock - of an endangered species nonetheless must keep you awake at night.
What a purist you are. Here you are claiming that I crossed two completely unrelated breeds of the domestic chicken, Gallus domesticus with all the fury of a Pentecostal minister in a house of ill repute- and there on your website you are selling actual hybrids between two different species , one of which is highly endangered both in the wild and in captivity. One of the green peafowl's greatest threats is genetic contamination via intentional and unintentional hybridization.