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Flowerbh said:
Nice! Just wondering what your goal with all the Marans? Breeding? Colored eggs?

I raise and grow out chickens that I think will give me lots of different colored eggs. I also like fun and funky looking chicks that can give me those colors.
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In short, breeding, but the overall goal is to have fun. I started with two separate lines of FBCMs, and I banded the chicks from one line, yet some the rascals kicked off their bands, so the two lines became one. (In the future we plan to toe punch our chicks.) I'm keeping two cockerels from that bunch and will breed them with some of the pullets from the new line (three pullets per cockerel), and I plan to keep two cockerels from the new line and breed then with the pullets from the old line. I'm breeding show-quality FBCM, and I'm hoping that I can help get my Marans as close to the APA standard as possible. I also want to get eggs as dark as possible. People seem to love getting those dark eggs.

I'm really coming to love this breed. Some people have commented that their Marans are not as friendly as other breeds, but I have found mine a joy. In fact, one of my favorite birds is a Marans named PeeWee. She was the smallest hatchling of her brood, yet she has grown to be a nice-sized beautiful girl and has the sweetest disposition. She loves to be held and will fly or jump into my lap. However, she also has a devious alter-ego. For example, we use 50 gal Sterite tubs for brooders, and we have frame tops for them that I made from pallet planks and hardware cloth. Well, PeeWee loves to fly onto the frame tops and startle the birds in the brooders. She gets a real thrill out of this. She has behaved like that as soon as she could fly, and she seems to never tire of it, so PeeWee's full name is really PeeWee the Terrorist, but she's a sweet terrorist...
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The color spectrum of chicken eggs these days is amazing. For the BYC EHAL, we set some light-blue cream legbar eggs just for the fun of it. I doubt we're going to keep most of the chicks, maybe one or two pullets in the all-girl pen.
 
Random: I am going to need intense therapy after all day home with cancelled schools and 4 children and 2 incubators in this weather! Everyone stay safe.
 
HELP!!! I need homes for these purebred cockerels!

3 Swedish Flower boys - about 2 months old now (this photo is a few weeks old)

Frizzled Naked Neck boy - 3 weeks old

Purebred Marans boys - 3 available - 3 weeks old

I think this little 3 week old Swedish Flower is a boy, too!

Purebred Chocolate Cuckoo Orpington cockerel (middle bird) - 3 weeks old

Purebred white Leghorn cockerel - 3 weeks old

Please PM me if you are interested in any/all of these! I hate to sell them to the guy who eats them all!
 
FBCM Cockerel Giveaway

We had a break in the weather, so I managed to take a few photos of the FBCM cockerel I'm giving away for FREE:


Copper hackles coming in nicely, especially for only being 7 weeks


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Nice comb (Yes, I need to cut the grass.)

Anyway, he's a gentle soul. You can either fatten him up over the next few months and have him over for Sunday dinner one evening, or you can add him to your flock. As mentioned earlier, local pick up only. PM if interested.
 

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