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

[haTHOR]

my three cuckoo marans are 21 weeks old and their faces just went CRIMSON in the last week. i can't wait!~it's sooooo hard when you have never had a dark brown egg before. hope i am swimming in eggs soon too! they are my only pullets about to lay, and everyone else is 1.5-3 years old, so slowing down a bit on average. i'll have a bunch coming of age in october, (FCBMs, olive eggers, javas, EEs)but this is the most exciting thing until then.

 

[gvntofly05]

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Yay! Congrats!

 

[Lotsapaints]

20 weeks but these are hatchery cuckoos but the egg isn't as light as I thought it might be my oldest BC's are only 13 weeks I hope they get the idea @20 weeks fat chance

 

[SFIcelandics]

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Thanks, Kelly! And - I might add, this was a home-made incubator and HAND TURNED.

SunChick - we're all set for your shipment! Should be a really good hatch for you - I'm excited to see how you do!

SFIcelandics - I would LOVE to see some pics of your Cottage Hill/Davis girls!

Ill try and get some pics soon... Ill post them on here, and update my website with more pics of the birds, its kind of a work in progress when I have time, or on a nice rainy day...

My rooster is just huge, I thought my welsummer rooster was BIG but this Davis rooster is just MASSIVE!!!!

Nate

 

[SFIcelandics]

Does anyone on here have Wheaten or Blue Wheaten eggs or chicks for sale? I would like to get some more. Message me with Bloodlines and prices.

Thanks so much!

Nate

 

[berkeleysprings]

hi i will have some once the weather cools its just to hot to ship in 100 here now and will be for a wile , i have davis and henery line crossed . they are pure wheaten marans
my web site can tell you more
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[Wynette]

Okay, folks - I've posted on this before, but no one seemed to know anything about it. I thought it was just a fluke in that particular hen, and I ended up selling her. Now, I have ANOTHER hen, also Marans, that lays, every now and then, an egg with these odd holes in the shell. I can't find anything online about this, and in the bazillions of hens I've owned, I've only had two that lays them - both are Marans. That's just too much of a coincidence for it be...a coincidence. To further muddy the situation, both of the girls are from completely different bloodlines! So, I have to think it's something with the breed. Anyone else ever have one of these? This is one I got yesterday with TWO holes in it - a first. This hen lays these eggs maybe 1 out of every 30 eggs she lays, and she's a cull from my breeder pen to my layer pen:

Here is each hole close up - you can see where it almost looks like one of those eggs with extra calcium deposits on the shell, but it was for some reason pushed in (?) The membrane beneath the shell is intact in both holes (as it always is):

Anyone else ever have one of these? This just perplexes me. All my layers get the same feed and treats, and all are on Avia Charge 2000, so they should have all the vits/mins they need. Weird stuff!

 

[gvntofly05]

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I have a girl, also a Marans, that lays one with a hole like that every so often. I haven't gotten one in over 2 weeks. I thought it was just me but now I see I have company.

I never took pics of it, it always went in the frying pan to quick!

 

[Wynette]

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Yup! Not a thing wrong on the inside of the shell, just the outside! Weird.

 

[stampntam]

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I am new and just wondered does their faces go Crimson indicate they are ready to lay eggs. Do you have pictures to show a difference?