I just cull when I see mossiness. I've noticed minimal will sometimes molt out but excessive usually doesn't. I like your commitment to your Marans, pretty passionate about my two varieties as well.
My opinion on getting hatchery stock tho, is I think it's a bad move. Your trying to eliminate...
Feel free to come get 1 or 5.
11 Marans cockerels at the moment. 4 Silvers and 7 BCMs. The wife seems to have convinced me to keep the monstrosity Blue guy around with Ozzy the Black Silver.
We've had a slight warm spell and the wind is much calmer today so scrambling to get the runs properly...
Nothing... I've read nothing can be done. Vaseline some say works. But I've tried it and it didn't help, it does have a freeze point but company won't disclose that number.
I'm looking to breed more of the Silvers into my coppers as they have been bred for smaller combs.
Keep moisture out of...
The kids in Kings coop are out playing in the snow.
Interesting development has occured over the last few days. The littles here are 7 weeks now, Silly the SLW who normally is a bully and I've never been a fan of her or the breed because of it...has now started co parenting the littles with the...
And just so we're clear, I can't recall ever saying I'm officially ready for winter. In fact...I would be more apt to be correct saying I'm still 3 years behind.
The 360 low temp alarm went off this morning...temp has dropped and won't go back up. The wife saved the day and we got the eggs moved into the other 2 bators.
In the process we hear peeps a going.