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hi Deann! and everyone else! similarly not on BYC much these days, but have slowly established a relatively solid flock of isbars, and one pen full of silver campines -- i also still have some marans hens (although no longer the rooster, he became aggressive last year & was too huge to...

i will certainly let you know -- and i should be hatching some more chicks this weekend, including a group of marans/isbar olive-egger crosses which might be of interest?

i am delighted to report that the new owner of my rooster sent photos of him settling in with his new home and flock, and everyone seemed quite delighted! the guy commented on how the rooster was far more of a gentleman with the rest of the flock than their previous rooster (who was killed by...

congratulations!!! beautiful birds as always!

just chiming in here to agree that my birchen marans have been the most easy-going of any of my chicken breeds (isbars are also quite calm; the silver campines are more flighty and high-strung). I just sold my spare marans rooster to a family in Oakdale, and he was calm and quiet in the car...

very exciting! just in case there is someone here interested, I am looking for a new home for my spare birchen marans rooster -- he's a little over a year old and very sweet and good-tempered: please PM me if you are interested!

so so gorgeous!! you have the loveliest birds...

not sure of my schedule yet for April -- if i have the time, i'd love to go, but things might be too crazy with school!

yes, as @tommysgirl said, i do have isbars -- right now just one breeding trio, but i could certainly provide some eggs if needed -- just let me know. i'm in sonoma county. and hi everyone! apologies for being away from this site so much, work has just gotten insane this year... but the...

hurrah! glad to hear that they are laying! and yes, my birchens seem to produce both birchen and all-black chicks (and an occasional wheaten-esque white one!), but they are all lovely. and hello! and happy new year! i haven't been on BYC in ages -- school got wayyyyy too busy last fall to...

it hurt more than three, news reports say at least 90 & perhaps as many as 120 people have been treated in various nearby emergency rooms, and quite a lot of serious damage in Napa.

all is well here, but the strangest thing was seeing "earthquake lightning," which i'd never even HEARD of (and have lived in CA since i was two years old, in 1969) -- and which several other friends, who live in completely different towns than me, also reported seeing. two flashes, one during...

it was a very rolling/wave-like-feeling quake up here on Sonoma Mtn, but amazingly no stuff fell off shelves, and as far as i can tell, the chickens slept through it. cats were freaked out, though -- as was i, for a bit! strongest one i've felt since 1989... and it looks like Napa has really...

they sometimes start out with a brownish color in their feathers, instead of black (but not *copper*, which is lighter & more red/brassy) -- i think the brown is called "mossy" in the marans parlance, but i've also found that it shifts more toward black (with green sheen!) as their adult...

i figured the ice cream-bar would be a boy, since he had a nice big spot on his head -- glad to know the auto-sexing carries over from the CLB! and i was guessing pullet on the blue (who is half isbar, half marans if i recall, so an OE) -- hope you take some pictures as they grow, i'm...

if it looks good and is acting healthy, i'd just leave it be -- i'm continually amazed at how quickly and completely chickens heal form injuries. and FYI, my two birchen marans girls have both gone broody again, and so are sitting on 8 eggs between them -- so good that you are keeping all...

heh -- i'm sure these kits would be happy to accept donations!

a couple of better pictures, as the babies were just out romping around again -- these pictures were taken through my front door: there are FOUR of them, and possibly a fifth -- either that or a young adult who's helping to raise them (not the same as Mama, who's bigger) so frickin' cute!!!!!!

well, i don't have a whole lot of choice in the matter, at this point -- and the chickens are safe in their pens. they are grumpy about not being able to free-range, though! hopefully once the kits are grown & they disperse, the chickens will be able to go out again, with supervision -- but...

i'm home after a week's vacation and now doing some chicken-pen reorganizing -- and i think i've decided which of my five silver campine rooster/cockerels to keep, as only one of the boys has NOT inherited their dad's squirrel tail -- so, he stays. have separated dad & the other boys into a...