Sunflower Chickens

[mikeksfarmer]

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Sounds great do you have hatching eggs or chicks And to Katy I love the look of Wheaten Marans are their eggs that dark brown chocolate colored. I just want one or 2 hens of JG just for the eggs I really need a couple of my hens to go broody I think this year might be hatching eggs and next year try some of my own eggs. I have to be careful I am at my max for chickens but trying for the egg basket I want and stay under the radar.

Here's a picture from last year.....I haven't got any newer ones, but I can take one if you want.....they look the same.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b126/Kansaskaty/wheatens/100_1142.jpg

Ok so who you got laying those really dark eggs? They look like my welsummer eggs but betting they are one of the Marans. I have welsummers now and think that I will hatch some eggs from them and other birds this summer but would like to replace my roo in the future with a Maran roo.

 

[schellie69]

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Sounds great do you have hatching eggs or chicks And to Katy I love the look of Wheaten Marans are their eggs that dark brown chocolate colored. I just want one or 2 hens of JG just for the eggs I really need a couple of my hens to go broody I think this year might be hatching eggs and next year try some of my own eggs. I have to be careful I am at my max for chickens but trying for the egg basket I want and stay under the radar.

Here's a picture from last year.....I haven't got any newer ones, but I can take one if you want.....they look the same.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b126/Kansaskaty/wheatens/100_1142.jpg

I love that color, That is just what I have been looking for. Will you have hatching eggs later this spring I am hoping for a broody so I can hatch some eggs. I would love to get some of those dark ones to hatch.

 

[Katy]

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Here's a picture from last year.....I haven't got any newer ones, but I can take one if you want.....they look the same.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b126/Kansaskaty/wheatens/100_1142.jpg

Ok so who you got laying those really dark eggs? They look like my welsummer eggs but betting they are one of the Marans. I have welsummers now and think that I will hatch some eggs from them and other birds this summer but would like to replace my roo in the future with a Maran roo.

Wheaten Marans

 

[Katy]

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Here's a picture from last year.....I haven't got any newer ones, but I can take one if you want.....they look the same.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b126/Kansaskaty/wheatens/100_1142.jpg

I love that color, That is just what I have been looking for. Will you have hatching eggs later this spring I am hoping for a broody so I can hatch some eggs. I would love to get some of those dark ones to hatch.

I should have. Let me know when you've got a broody.

 

[ChooksChick]

Those are lovely, Katy!

My FBCM lay about the same shade, some a bit darker.

Schellie, I have eggs and chicks, you'll just have to check with me when you're ready- I don't generally sell anything but straight run, though.

I'm heavy on the chicks right now, but have to do an inventory in about a week to see what I'll be keeping. I may wait a bit longer on some of them before thinning.

Mike, don't get rid of your Wellie roo- a Marans roo won't give you darker laying offspring usually because the egg melanizers don't work that way- in fact even mixing different lines of Marans can leave you with a lighter egg than either parent, because of the mix.

 

[tazcat70]

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These are the only new pics I have. It has been cold and rainy for the last couple of days and I haven't wanted to do another "photo shoot."

 

[tazcat70]

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Here's a picture from last year.....I haven't got any newer ones, but I can take one if you want.....they look the same.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b126/Kansaskaty/wheatens/100_1142.jpg

Ok so who you got laying those really dark eggs? They look like my welsummer eggs but betting they are one of the Marans. I have welsummers now and think that I will hatch some eggs from them and other birds this summer but would like to replace my roo in the future with a Maran roo.

Don't you dare!

 

[tazcat70]

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Ok so who you got laying those really dark eggs? They look like my welsummer eggs but betting they are one of the Marans. I have welsummers now and think that I will hatch some eggs from them and other birds this summer but would like to replace my roo in the future with a Maran roo.

Wheaten Marans

The birds are as gorgeous as the eggs too!

 

[mikeksfarmer]

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I agree and thanks for the advice. My wellie eggs are as dark as the WMs I want some dark eggs every year Just wondering what the influance is on other birds, Any TMI to discuss here. I do really like my wellies though they tend to be a bit dramatic.

 

[schellie69]

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Okay I will let you know I just want a few of each breed. Katy I will let you know as soon as my hens go broody if they ever do