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

[drom]

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I got my tracking numba, la la la la la la.

LA LA LA LA LALALALALLAAAAAAAAA!

I think maybe it will arrive on Wednesday. I will be waiting down at my front gate... all day. I'll just sit down there and wait....

 

[upthecreek]

What kind are you getting ?


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I got my tracking numba, la la la la la la.

LA LA LA LA LALALALALLAAAAAAAAA!

I think maybe it will arrive on Wednesday. I will be waiting down at my front gate... all day. I'll just sit down there and wait....

 

[drom]

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I got my tracking numba, la la la la la la.

LA LA LA LA LALALALALLAAAAAAAAA!

I think maybe it will arrive on Wednesday. I will be waiting down at my front gate... all day. I'll just sit down there and wait....

I got the R-Com 20. I waited almost a year and a half to get one and threw out so many nice eggs. So, I am really excited to finally have one.

 

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

bon soir, mes amis!

I got my BCM eggs today! These two pictures are of the same eggs, I just want to see them side-by-side...

(photos taken outside, natural sunlight, no flash)

I kinda arranged them in order from darkest to lightest, but it wasn't necessarily as easy as it seems. I may, or may not, hatch them separately and immediately rehome the peeps from the lightest eggs. These are from the same flock that gave me 2 Wheaties out of the last clutch of 7, so I'm hoping for a few more.

It looks like I should switch 14 and 19, but beyond that I'm not so sure. Any thoughts on whether 16 is more or less desirable than 20 or 21 (speckles)? Anything else I've missed?

As always, I weighed them all and will reweigh them every few days, manipulating the humidity as necessary in order to achieve an average weight loss of 12-14%...

And while I was fussing about with the egg colors, these others were brought to me for incubating on another party's behalf...

7 Bantam Auracanas, 2 BBR Modern Game Bantams, 2 Gallus Idontknows (OEGB?), 1 F2 OE, 1 pretty light Penedesenca, and the last one is...a super-secret "Marandaise".

edit: french syntax error.

 

[SunnyDawn]

I picked up my new babies today!!!

Here are my new BCmarans!

2 of them are mostly black (or very dark charcoal grey) and 2 are white and black with dark eyeliner and 1 is in between. Don't care about showing them, I just love the super dark eggs!

 

[upthecreek]

who did you get them(chicks) from ?



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[upthecreek]

looks very good except for 19

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[drom]

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Wow, you must have lots of incubator space Some people think spotted eggs are a good sign. You, know with 16 and 21 you really have no way of knowing. It's early in the lay season, but then again, one could be from a hen who started laying early or didn't have much of a break or is an older hen. Who knows? 1-13 and 19 are keepers for sure.
Also, many people say sometimes one generation of pullets will lay light and the egg color will come back in the next generation. It's hard though, when it's not your stock and you don't know all the specifics and what type egg the roosters came from and how they were related to the hens, etc...

 

[drom]

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Oooo very cute. Hey what's that little second guy there. Is he a mystery chick?

 

[SunnyDawn]

I got them from a gal outside of Reno. Eddie Miller. She got her stock a while ago from a couple of breeders named Jean Wade and Ron Priestly? I think those were the names. You folks on this thread probably know the breeders well. I don't. I could call her and ask to be sure if you really want the correct info. She sold me one of them at a discounted rate cause she said the reddish brown spot on his/her head was not desirable? I don't show my birds, I just like the dark eggs, so I didn't care.

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