Re: Marans

From: sustag (sustag_remove_no_spam_at_eircom.net)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:12:56 +0000

Hi Goatgal,
I have heard/read the same. Got 3 hens, 4 cockerels though out of 8 eggs
(1 failed to hatch). Gosh, you really had bad luck there.
Ute

Goatgal wrote:
> Jill wrote:
>
>>"Krys Francis" <krys@clef.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:tE+iw8WiiDY8MwsP@clef.demon.co.uk...
>>
>>>Yesterday someone told me that they had stopped breeding Marans
>
> because
>
>>>the cockerel to hen ratio was about 3:1. Is this really the case?
>>>

>
> I had bought 9 maran chicks from a man that was generous
> enough to actually hatch them out for me, but I ended up
> with 1 hen and 8 males, so that actually might be the case.
>

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