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

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Well, the one died in the zip process. I'm not usually into "helping" things that can't make it on their own, and this one had a very short zip going that hadn't even broken the membrane, so I left it thinking it probably wasn't ready. The first one born had taken a 9 hour nap between the time it started to zip till it started zipping again, so I had hoped this was the same deal. The one I did help had already gotten about 3/4 of the way done, but the membrane had dried so badly, it couldn't budge it. She is fine this morning, as are her three siblings! Bought 10 eggs, got 12, and four survived, not bad for my first time, with shipped eggs, in a Little Giant! I'll take it! I look at it as a 40% hatch! Here are the babies this morning. #1 is in the front, #2 the dark one is right behind her, #3 is to the right, and #4 on the left. The #3 chick is the one I helped and looks no worse for the wear, so I'm glad I did it.
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Just popping in to say a great BIG HOWDY to all my Marans friends. Hope this finds everyone and their birds doing great.


HAPPY 4th!


Congrats on your hatch Debbi!
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I was thinkin about ya... glad to see ya Pinkchick!! You done hatching still... he he I thought I was and i accidently slipped 8 eggs into the bator and hoped they wouldn't hatch... but.. ooooops they did... AAAACK I need to call HA (hatchaholics anonomous)
 
Accidently made it into the bator......lol, you crack me up Jan! Yes my bators are still turned off but I do miss it.........really reaalllly bad. Perhaps when my youngest blue coppers start laying I will spark them up again. I am still waiting patiently for my babies from Florida, should be anytime. BTW: you remember Junior?...well sadly he is not going to make the grade for breeding....but his ginormous size makes the grade for this weekends BBQ. I wish he had colored out better but no such luck, darn it anyway. He is not showing any coppering on his shoulders and he has taken up fighting with my Splash roo and you just know I can't have that.
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He sounds delicous!!! Sorry to hear that!!! Oh well you can hatch another.
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I think one of my BCM roos might be joining your's on the BBQ this weekend! I can't stop the fighting
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Hey, everyone! I started out with 3 FCM iin January. We quickly discovered that two were roos and mean to boot. They have been rehomed. My little ole girl is a big scaredy-cat and at 24 weeks, I was getting impatient with her! I want an egg!!! Yesterday morning I heard something suspiciously like the Egg Song coming from that coop. Three hours later.... we have our first egg!!! I'm so excited! I was going to take a picture of it this morning and my husband had already eaten it.
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Hopefully I'll have another soon. Do they get bigger in size? It seemed smaller than I was expecting but was a lovely color.

The good news.... I have 10 Marans eggs in the incubator and 23 Ameraucana eggs. Hopefully I'll get a few more hens. Out of my 5 Ameraucaunas, I only ended up with one girl and she is also 24 weeks. Time for a blue egg too. Slow but sure, I'm building my beautiful egg basket!
 
Susanne congrats on your fist Marans egg!
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Yes they will get bigger! Mine took a couple of weeks to start getting a larger size. Although one of mine, not sure which has laid a double yolk-er twice now!
 
Debbi, CONGRATS! Those are some cuties you have there! Are they all Black Coppers? I've not seen many with that much white on them. I'm so happy they're doing well for you!!!

Hey, pinkchick! Haven't seen you around much - glad to see you!
 
It has been awhile since I have posted. I have had arough year with my bc marans. Bad incubators, MAJOR coon/possom isues and lost several of my very small flock.

I now only have my original Bev Davis roo, 1 of his sons and one daughter. The daughter is blue copper like her mother was.

Hubby is building a new pen, I have a new ascesory(sp?), a 38, and am looking to try again at hatching some bc eggs.
Looking for dark eggs and feather shanks. Pm me with info if you have some available.
 
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