Wrath's Marans

[wrathsfarm]

Sooo... will you be adding these bootiful giants to your flock now

Maybe if they came with their own monthly feed.

 

[2ndTink]

Maybe if they came with their own monthly feed.

Well, with enough time and patience they can feed you...

 

[wrathsfarm]

I managed to snap a few pics over the last week and forgot to post them.

Last Thursday was our first yearly ritual of duck killing white acid appearance upon release.

Saturday....Joannie layed a heavy bloom. This is only her 3rd egg from being broody, then going into her molt.

And yesterday I snapped a few of the babies. They'll be 7 wks old on the 27th.

 

[BlueTheBrahma]

I managed to snap a few pics over the last week and forgot to post them.

Last Thursday was our first yearly ritual of duck killing white acid appearance upon release. View attachment 3995487View attachment 3995486

Saturday....Joannie layed a heavy bloom. This is only her 3rd egg from being broody, then going into her molt.
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And yesterday I snapped a few of the babies. They'll be 7 wks old on the 27th.View attachment 3995499View attachment 3995498View attachment 3995497View attachment 3995500View attachment 3995501

I didn’t know you had ducks (or if you told me, I forgot!). I’ve never seen ducked that had black bills but yellow feet either, or is that just in the winter?

That’s a handsome little cockerel in those last photos.

 

[wrathsfarm]

I didn’t know you had ducks (or if you told me, I forgot!). I’ve never seen ducked that had black bills but yellow feet either, or is that just in the winter?

That’s a handsome little cockerel in those last photos.

They started out yellow, but gradually got blacker. I have no idea why.

I used to joke in the Marans thread back when I first joined and posted a pic of them, I claimed they were a new white Marans hybrid I was working on with paddle feet and swam so I didn't get in trouble for posting non Marans.

 

[wrathsfarm]

That’s a handsome little cockerel in those last photos.

He's the only guy hatched from Jessie who is Joannie's daughter. If you recall them first 2 boys from Joannie (Easter hatch) had v shape type so I sold them. Hopefully this guy looks better after he grows out.

He reminds me of what chunky Kong looked like around that age. But he appears to have a much better leg stance to me.

Kong.....

This guy is the biggest and the one you commented about that you liked a few days ago. I double banded him to keep an eye on. He's got some mossy going on his back but from what I understand that's ok in the cockerels. There's only the 2 boys from Gloria (red bands), no pullets this time. She was the only one of Betty's 3 pullets that wasn't mossy and layed the darkest egg of them 3.

Jessie and Gloria were pullets that I sold but I incubated some eggs from because they were the 2 darkest pullets eggs to keep the genes in the flock. I'm bummed I didn't get any pullets from Gloria but I did get 3 from Jessie so I'm excited to see eggs from them being F2s.

 

[BlueTheBrahma]

They started out yellow, but gradually got blacker. I have no idea why.

I used to joke in the Marans thread back when I first joined and posted a pic of them, I claimed they were a new white Marans hybrid I was working on with paddle feet and swam so I didn't get in trouble for posting non Marans.

You joined the marans thread before me, right?

 

[wrathsfarm]

You joined the marans thread before me, right?

I can't be positive without searching but I believe so.

Edited... We both joined BYC just a couple months apart.

 

[wrathsfarm]

Sold 5 of the boys this morning. The 2 OE's, 2 from mixed flock and the one from Black (MMM)

All the rest are staying awhile yet til I can make selections for keepers. They are all BCM's other than Poppy.
There's 4 from Raven and 2 from Momma that are 13 wks.
And 3 are 7 wks (1-Jessie, 2- Gloria)

And hopefully I'll get to see some first eggs from the pullets soon, Solo the Black Silver should be first being 23 wks now. Her comb is reddening up but no interest in the nest boxes so far. Hoping they don't make me wait til Spring......

Happy Thanksgiving everyone, hope you all have a safe and happy day !!

 

[wrathsfarm]

Some egg pics.
I've got someone coming for eggs today and with having a couple of the hens firing back up I wanted to get a few pics of their egg color starting up just to document.