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

[pinkchick]

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[Illia]

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Congratulations!!

I'm awaiting my next Marans hatching today. . . I'll only have 11, but they'll be joined by a lot of Ameraucana, EE, and Polish.

 

[geebs]

Well here ya go marans fans.... my newbies.... next years hopefuls.

 

[Illia]

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They're so cute!

I just received a bunch of Marans eggs from Wynette and have to drool. . . There are a nice assortment of shades which I love (the orange ones. . . Gonna be used for Halloween, oh yeah.

) But a couple are WOW - They are dark!! Darker than my Bev Davis BC eggs. . . One in particular has to be an 8, and since I have no clue what a 9 looks like. . .

Let's all hope it is a boy and that it hatches.

Anyway, setting them all later today. I want to do it now, but I also really badly want to take pics, and my camera's batteries died right as I pressed the shutter button, so. . . In a couple hours I'll post pics and set all 50+ eggs.

 

[Wynette]

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Oh, I'm so glad you're pleased, and SO glad they all made it there intact! Crossed fingers for a boy for you!!!

 

[Illia]

Okay Wynette, everyone else. . . Here's the egg I'm drooling about.

And here are all the eggs I'm setting today. Too bad they're due after Easter, because look at all those BEAUTIFUL easter colors!

 

[geebs]

Please excuse the mud and poop on the eggie but it was laid in the mud and if I plan to hatch it... well poop happens... Just when I get them all hatched... Someone has to lay something like this!!! ha ha... It is an 8... for those of you that know what that looks like in your hand.. Well the poop can just stay there!!! Hope it hatches a girl... Is march over yet??? Is there an April hatch along????

 

[Illia]

There'd better be an April Hatch A-Long - I've got 16 BCMs due on the 16th.

Well well, looks like my mossy BC cockerel really wants me to keep him! Tonight, while flying up to roost and sleep, he must have done so blindly from going to bed so late, and got his leg stuck and smashed in the hinge-space of the doorway to the coop. I went in to check on everyone, and noticed a black chicken dangling from the gap between the fence seperating the hens from the cockerels/pullets and the doorway, and it was my poor mossy cockerel. He started screaming and flailing in pain, and I was freaked! I wasn't sure whether to open the door more or close it in order to free his bloodied leg, so I grabbed it and tried carefully pulling him up. . . Didn't work. I finally lifted his body up, turned his leg to the side, and it slid out, but was pretty banged up right at the angle region.

I rushed inside, got some Aloe-Vera, and poured some on after cleaning the wound. Poor boy was very frightened, and the most I could do was put him back out there in a spot where we wouldn't perch, but just lay down in some hay. Luckily he stayed there. . . I really don't want him to be using that leg for a while.

Looks like I'm now really attached to him since that accident, and I should find a good name for him. . . He'll be kept for Olive Egger babies.

 

[NateDomRIR]

Hello all,

I think I have some Blue chicks coming out of my BCMs. Here's a pic of one of them. This is my first year breeding BCMs. I have various strains. I guess the Blue gene is recessive? I had a beautiful Golden Salmon (without the salmon) that laid my darkest egg in with them. I have since put her in with my Black Ameraucanas to make some olive eggers. I'll just have to wait and see if I get anymore with her out of the picture.

 

[pinkchick]

Nate~

Blue is not a reccessive gene a person must have a blue or splash bird to produce blue offspring. If I am mistaken some great chicken genetics guru's will come around soon and set us straight.

oh and yeppers you got yourself a little blue man there.