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  1. Christie Rhae

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Hey all! Guess what I have zipping and pipping in my incubator? Eggs from Lisa Olson! This is my 4th try at getting some good marans to start with here in Hawaii. Last year I was advised to try to get eggs from Lisa Olson and after all this time I finally got eggs from her and they are...
  2. Christie Rhae

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    marans.org Go to "varieties". I don't think blue is a recognized color yet though.
  3. Christie Rhae

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Oh I know it takes forever! I think that is why my husband won't kill them for me anymore. We watched videos on youtube but now looking back I realized that the video I used to show him how to slit the throats edited out the twitched and flapping part. So my husband slit the throat but the...
  4. Christie Rhae

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Hi everyone! So I did cull my BCM boys. Marans are very nice meaty birds! These guys were huge. I have a funny story. My husband cannot handle killing the birds. He is a softy. So since this is my project I do the processing. I got a new feather plucker that actually cut my time in...
  5. Christie Rhae

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    20 pages behind!! Where have I been??
  6. Christie Rhae

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Marans.org seems fine. You mean the other marans club?
  7. Christie Rhae

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    *sigh* what I would have given to get a bird review like this... Butcher days is fast approaching for my boys. I am selling one of my BCM boys tomorrow to a lady who wants olive eggers. Going to keep one just cuz I can. And the rest of my boys....gonners.
  8. Christie Rhae

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    I got it from Coops n More for about 350.00. Had to wait 4 weeks for delivery cuz it is so heavy it would have cost 200 to get it UPS.
  9. Christie Rhae

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Hello marans peeps! I am pages behind on this thread. The ameraucana thread as been hopping and takes all my time to keep up with the drama. Look what I got in the mail today!! No more plucking by hand for me. Now I am ready to cull all my marans cockerels. lol! Just had to share...
  10. Christie Rhae

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Regarding the sustainability subject: Me too! I don't know what it is. Is it just an subtle idea spreading across the country? I tell my husband that we have to prepare for the zombie apocalypse. Of course it is only a joke but gardening, recycling, solar energy, chickens, etc. is just...
  11. Christie Rhae

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    You could put it in an incubator and see if it develops. lol.. not really any way to tell without cracking a few.
  12. Christie Rhae

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    lol... the thing is I am such a kindergartener in the chicken world. All I know is a few ABC's. I need help! Instead I end up looking like a know it all so better to just not say anything. This is a small island, I don't want to get a bad rep.
  13. Christie Rhae

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    I will give it a try.... Splash is when a bird gets two copies of the diluting gene Bl (blue) One copy makes a black bird blue and two copies makes a black bird white with colored patches. If she is white she is a splash. Sometimes people say blue splash because splash also happens in...
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