Wrath's Marans

[2ndTink]

That song could have stayed buried....just saying.

Thanks, I'll be doing a bigger hatch this year with her eggs. I only hatched 2 last year and neither survived. Her eggs are oblong and not very dark, but I need more of that Copper in my flock.

Too late, it's back and ready to rock

I have a silkie who lays oblong eggs in the breeding pen, I'm not sure who it is but I’ve been moving those eggs to the eating egg cartons as they show up.

 

[WingItRanch]

Too late, it's back and ready to rock

I have a silkie who lays oblong eggs in the breeding pen, I'm not sure who it is but I’ve been moving those eggs to the eating egg cartons as they show up.

I have one that lays super long skinny eggs. Just curious... does that shape make incubation more difficult?

 

[2ndTink]

I have one that lays super long skinny eggs. Just curious... does that shape make incubation more difficult?

I haven't tried them out yet I was too worried about development or hatch issues

 

[WingItRanch]

I haven't tried them out yet I was too worried about development or hatch issues

It doesn't really matter. I don't have a rooster right now... but @wrathsfarm convinced me to get a BCM boy when I'm ready.

 

[Tstraub]

I have one that lays super long skinny eggs. Just curious... does that shape make incubation more difficult?

I have always heard that odd shaped eggs can make it difficult for the chick to get into hatching position and have a lower chance of hatching. Since the basic idea of breeding is “hatching for improvement” most breeder would consider hens that consistently lay odd shaped eggs a cull.

Just to be clear by cull I only mean remove from breading program not necessarily soup pot. She could still make an excellent breakfast egg hen or be used to hatch eggs laid by other hens. I have a Wyandotte that lays torpedo shaped eggs but she lays almost every day and is a fierce momma hen when the mood strikes her so she’s a keeper in my flock.

 

[wrathsfarm]

Too late, it's back and ready to rock

Do you realize how much Metal I'm going to have to listen to, to get that out of my head?

In retaliation I hereby make you listen to this...compliments of my granddaughter !!!

Your welcome...

I have a silkie who lays oblong eggs in the breeding pen, I'm not sure who it is but I’ve been moving those eggs to the eating egg cartons as they show up.

Jett lays these... Sometimes a tad darker but not much. Not recommended SOP so I've had her eggs on the back burner as I've been trying to hatch only my darkest layers eggs. Realizing recently I need type in my flock first and work on egg color after.

 

[wrathsfarm]

It doesn't really matter. I don't have a rooster right now... but @wrathsfarm convinced me to get a BCM boy when I'm ready.

Biased and an enabler....

 

[wrathsfarm]

I have always heard that odd shaped eggs can make it difficult for the chick to get into hatching position and have a lower chance of hatching. Since the basic idea of breeding is “hatching for improvement” most breeder would consider hens that consistently lay odd shaped eggs a cull.

Just to be clear by cull I only mean remove from breading program not necessarily soup pot. She could still make an excellent breakfast egg hen or be used to hatch eggs laid by other hens. I have a Wyandotte that lays torpedo shaped eggs but she lays almost every day and is a fierce momma hen when the mood strikes her so she’s a keeper in my flock.

This was a good explanation

 

[2ndTink]

Do you realize how much Metal I'm going to have to listen to, to get that out of my head?

In retaliation I hereby make you listen to this...compliments of my granddaughter !!!

Your welcome...

Jett lays these... Sometimes a tad darker but not much. Not recommended SOP so I've had her eggs on the back burner as I've been trying to hatch only my darkest layers eggs. Realizing recently I need type in my flock first and work on egg color after.

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How did they even turn that into that long of a song

In re-retaliation I leave you this song

 

[wrathsfarm]

How did they even turn that into that long of a song

In re-retaliation I leave you this song

That was just plain disturbing.
But at least I won't have Brick house running thru my head now....

ETA... That was all visual. Couldn't have volume up, grandbabies sleeping.