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mortie said:
The place I got my ameracaunas from had marans as welll...maybe I should get a couple of those...
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I like my marans. The eggs aren't chocolate by any stretch of the imagination but they are hatchery birds. They're very docile, not the bullies (that title is saved for Phyllis) and so far are dependable layers. I'll prob always have a couple I think going forward...but I might try for nice dark hatching eggs!
 
showbarnmom said:

I have two of these <3 both I think are going to frizzle.
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Hey everyone! Congrats on the chicks! I think one of the bantam cochins has decided to go broody!!!! This is awesome since I have hatching eggs coming this week! I'm going to watch for a few days, and if she seems serious I'll stick a couple of eggs under her when they get here!!!! Since her and her sister seem to do everything together, I'm hoping that the other one decides being broody is a good idea! LOL... They started laying within days of each other.

We went up to my dad's yesterday... he has a new pony mule that was born this week! There is also a pair of Canadian geese that have decided to nest on his pond....... Went to my grandma's today for Easter dinner. That was nice... My kids had a blast coloring eggs and getting their Easter baskets!

Here's a video of the possible broody.... don't mind my commentary... LOL

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=305344986289541





 
chickenlindz said:
I love my black copper marans! It's the white ones I don't like. I did get two white marans for the egg color so it'll be interesting to see their full plump adult selves!!!
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Next time Rumples goes broody... I am getting her Black Copper Maran eggs from a local breeder. I am going to move her to a broody pen first, see if she stays there and then give her the eggs. Safer and less stress for all.
 
I only have the one marans, but she is a sweet natured chicken. Not like certain psycochicken EE/"Americauna"s I know.

My Easter hatch was awful. Chicks pipped, but didn't zip and died in shell. One was bracing another egg that seemed to have a pip going on at the bottom and I so desperately wanted to open the incubator and move that egg so the chick had a chance, but there were these other two that were trying to zip and I was terrified of shrinkwrapping them. It went on and on, the egg keeping the other egg face down didn't make progress for 12 hours. I couldn't stand watching them die so I helped after 24 hours. The first egg to pip was dead in shell. The second I helped and it hatched, which let me get to the third to roll it so it had a chance of pipping. That third egg was like glue had been injected in her egg. Just a sticky, gooey mess. Eventually, with lots of warm water and q tips I got her extricated. I got one picture of her and her brother


and then lifted the lid of the incubator to tend to something and she bolted out of the incubator, off the edge of the table and hit the floor.

She survived that, but the yolk or something started blurping back out. It was still contained in its sack, so I tried to put her in a cup in the incubator. Every container I came up with that fit in that blasted bator she tipped over or jumped out of while I was putting it in the incubator and then bolted into the unhatched eggs, dragging and stretching her yolk sack. Every time I lifted the incubator lid to try a different' strategy or unhook her toes from the yolk sack or prevent her from pooping on it, she would lunge for the center of the incubator so I couldn't close it, or lunge for the edge.

This went on and on. If she would just stay and rest for a bit, things seems to be reabsorbing, but she was crazed.

Finally, I turned out the light and that seemed to settle her. I went to bed. When I woke in the morning, she had run around and around the incubator, winding and stretching the yolk sack, until she died.

I am sorry to be telling you all such a long, miserable story, but I just feel a need to get it off my chest, I guess. It was just so epically awful and went on and on and on.

Anyway, the little male did survive and seems to be doing fine. I named him Gilgamesh and got him some little chick friends.



Gilgamesh is the dark grey chick with the white headspot. The others are variations on Easter Eggers (mom was an olive egger, Dad was fast and pretty) The rolled up socks are because I use a contact brooder heater thing and I like them to have something to cuddle up to.

Does hatching ever get better? Is this normal?
 
Awww Whoops :( I'm sorry to hear about your hatch. You did everything you could, and more than a lot of people could have done. Your babies are cute! What are your plans for them?
 

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