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  1. TexasBlues

    🐣🐥Black Copper Marans and Whiting True Blues. Lots of videos🎥

    I would like another BCM rooster, but I don’t think I’ll be able to keep 2 roosters. The one I have now is not perfect, but he is tolerable. The crowing is usually around 6 am til 630 then stops for awhile and doesn’t crow but maybe every hour or so. The other BCM was crowing about every 2...
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    🐣🐥Black Copper Marans and Whiting True Blues. Lots of videos🎥

    That’s exciting in the shipped eggs. Those are the BBS marans? Here’s a pic of the chicks right now taking a siesta inside their large chicken wire playpen. I have to keep them in here for the majority of the day and then let them free range for 2-3 hrs in the evening. The dog can only protect...
  3. TexasBlues

    🐣🐥Black Copper Marans and Whiting True Blues. Lots of videos🎥

    Thanks for asking. The 19 has unfortunately gone down to 14. I lost 4 about 3 weeks ago and then another 1 last week. I never saw what happened to any of them. They have been slipping through the chain link and getting into the alley and I think are getting snatched by neighbors’ free ranging...
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    🐣🐥Black Copper Marans and Whiting True Blues. Lots of videos🎥

    She has recovered completely. I had to keep her penned up in a dog kennel for almost a week and put neosporin on the wounds daily. I did give her sardines as well as scrambled eggs. The first day I let her back out the cockerel mounted her and tore open her wounds, but I kept treating her and...
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    What do you call this pattern? Crele?

    I learned that word comes from creel, meaning the wicker type of woven fishing baskets. “With an uncomplicated design and simplicity, the creel is a symbol of fishing from days gone by. The word “creel” or “a wickerwork receptacle” dates back to the Middle English, between 1250 and 1450 A.D. A...
  6. TexasBlues

    Plans for a new backyard coop/run build

    1/4 acre is perfect for 100 chickens at 108sqft/ea
  7. TexasBlues

    Plans for a new backyard coop/run build

    For eggs to be labeled pasture raised it is 108 sqft/hen. I try to get close to that.
  8. TexasBlues

    Plans for a new backyard coop/run build

    I see 224. That sounds pretty small for 10 birds.
  9. TexasBlues

    Plans for a new backyard coop/run build

    You mentioned you were only 15’ from the neighbors. What is your total square footage for the run?
  10. TexasBlues

    Plans for a new backyard coop/run build

    I’m in austin. I think it’s 50’ from neighbor’s buildings. I let mine roam free in the yard and return to an open air style coop. I have one rooster and noise isn’t too bad.
  11. TexasBlues

    Found baby chick on our porch

    Neosporin in the scratch. Looks like one of my chicks. Where you located?
  12. TexasBlues

    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    From watching the videos with Dr. Tom Whiting, I heard that hatching eggs ship better downhill in elevation.
  13. TexasBlues

    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    @BlueTheBrahma What are your thoughts on this guy? I have some young chicks sired by him. He is 23 weeks old in the photos.
  14. TexasBlues

    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Good luck. Great looking eggs. How far and long did they travel? I thought the brown spot on the chicks head was a funny trait on the list. The BCM cockerel I used had a distinctive brown spot.
  15. TexasBlues

    Please me. Is this a breed?

    Those pics do look like dragon fly farms in NC.
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