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

[lildinkem]

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I have two (2 yr ole) males who have lethal spurs. Easily an inch long or longer. Those are the two boys who ran off a hawk, after that hawk snapped the neck of one of my best girls. Their nice size fellas

 

[flowerchicks]

soooo, are they nice roo's if they are handled a lot? I guess my 4-5 wk old BC I asked about on page 666 (I think) is a little roo. He is so mellow and nice now but I know their little personalities change with age.

 

[lildinkem]

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you can turn your back on mine. Their very cool around me, great with the girls. And ALL girls get fertilized. I did minimal handling of my guys. And walking in their pen and not chasing them to pick them up helps. they trust me like I trust them. And they do their best to protect the girls when I can not.

 

[aalbury]

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I have two (2 yr ole) males who have lethal spurs. Easily an inch long or longer. Those are the two boys who ran off a hawk, after that hawk snapped the neck of one of my best girls. Their nice size fellas

Really? Mine don't have spurs. The only spurs allowed here are on the bantams.

 

[kathyinmo]

Look at the egg I got from the Marans pen today ...

 

[littledel]

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WOW, now if you could get that everytime......

 

[flgardengirl]

I ordered some eggs from bayhorse bonnie's website she said she was keeping her BCM flock until all the egg orders were filled. I am excited to be getting some eggs from her before they are all gone. Hope they are mostly girls

I have some BCMs already that I think will turn out pretty good. They are only 3 mos. old. I could always use more though lol.

 

[kathyinmo]

I have resigned myself to not hatch any Marans eggs unless they are a 7 or above. BUT, where to get these eggs, is the question! My Marans type is awful at this point. I am waiting for some to grow out to see how they are.

 

[pinkchick]

The eggs that I shipped yesterday made it to their new mamma today all safe and sound....

I was wrong about her BYC name...her byc name is lovemypug. Sending out millions of good hatching vibes to Tina!

 

[Illia]

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WOW, now if you could get that everytime......

Indeed indeed! I'm all about the darkest eggs, but that is a gorgeous egg!! If I had one lay an egg like that every time or almost every time, I'd go into breeding a line of her traits.