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CLindz, nice pics and yes, I think you are right about the roo, the rest look like very pretty pullets.
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chickenlindz said:
Some chicken pics!!!!

You'll see my suspected rooster in the second pic. I have two black copper marans and the difference in combs/wattles is now very noticeable. Tho I suspected almost from day one because he was always twice the size of the other.

Feel free to point out any others you think are males. With my luck they all are.





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CLindz..... how old are the Marans?
 
Lindz the marans are about 13 1/2 weeks old.

You can't tell from the picture put my roo in disguise also is showing some beautiful copper on his neck.
I got him from MPC and he does have some feathering on his feat so I'm thinking he has some "other" DNA somewhere in his lineage.

I have to say if any one turned out to be a boy I'm glad it was one of the marans. Might try for some olive eggers in the future with him and an EE!
 
hmm, all of my Marans have lightly feathered shanks, they are all Marans crosses, but crossed with other Marans. although the one pullet... Cosette has the cleanest shanks, very tiny feathers... these are my Marans cockerels, about 6 months old. they're dancin'...
 
Well the weatherman was wrong.... AGAIN..... We were only supposed to get flurries to a light dusting of snow, if we got any. It has snowed all day, is still snowing, and we have around an inch. It was snowing when the kids got on the bus, and they weren't at school 30 minutes before they were calling to tell parents that school was letting out at 10:00. They don't have school tomorrow either. There have been 30+ wrecks in the county, 2 of them fatal. We haven't had much snow in so many years that most people don't really know how to drive in it. I remember when I was little and we would get 6-12 inches a couple of times a year.... and sometimes even up to 3 ft. Now we hardly ever get more than 4-5 inches, mostly 1-2. Honestly, I've never had to drive in much snow myself... and I tend to stay off the roads when its yucky out.... Not necessarily because I can't drive in it, but because the other idiots on the road can't!
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The chickens did not like the white stuff at all! They all huddled under the coop or in it, and wouldn't come out! I ended up moving a couple of the feed tubs underneath the edge of the coop so the snow wouldn't get in it, and they could reach it without getting out into the white stuff of death!
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I also added another bag of leaves to the bedding, and threw some scratch in there. I got 10 eggs today. Not sure who is laying that pretty cream

egg, but I have gotten 3 of them so far! I also got 6 browns from the G.Comets and 3 green/blue from the EE's. I think I am going to try to get a camera to put down in the coop so I can watch them when they are laying!

Oh, and we pulled DD#1's tooth this evening..... So now she has a couple of gaps... One from today, and one from when she was 18 months old, and had the mini blind cord in her mouth and fell. It popped her tooth loose, and we had to go the the Children's hospital an hour away to have it removed! It even broke the bone of her face around the tooth socket! That was a nightmare!

 
I have a question: Why does the snow on your boots taste better to chickens? Mine follow me around the coop pecking away at the snow on my muck boots but open the door and they won't go near the snow. Are mine just weird?
 

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