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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    What do you think about bloody eggs like this? These 3 all came from the same hen. Sometimes it’s worse and the egg white is red. Is this something that can be cured or should I cull her from the breeding flock?
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    🐣🐥Black Copper Marans and Whiting True Blues. Lots of videos🎥

    The chicks are now about 8 weeks. They segregate into 2 small flocks with their brood mates. I think there’s 15 of them running around. There’s 6 or 7 olive egger cockerels that look very similar black, pea comb. Like this guy: There’s 2 olive egger pullets that are barred and look almost...
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    Why aren’t Whiting True Blues more popular?

    They’re mainly leghorns with blue egg genes. Tom Whiting didn’t start this breed, he was given it to him from a friend that crossed production leghorns with ameraucana or Easter eggers from Ideal Hatchery in TX. Whiting continued the line selecting for blue eggs and would backcross the line...
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    (I was wrong!!)Pretty disgusted with Murray McMurray Hatchery

    Don’t support these businesses. Buy local.
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    Comment by 'TexasBlues' in article 'Positive Reinforcement Training Poultry – Give It A Try!'

    You’re on the right path. Eventually others will understand.
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    Nesting boxes in high heat climates

    Any pics of the coop and nesting boxes? What breeds?
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    How do you know if your bird has salmonella or ecoli?

    It depends where you kiss it
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    🐣🐥Black Copper Marans and Whiting True Blues. Lots of videos🎥

    …but it looks like the 3 or 4 black copper marans that hatched are pullets. I integrated all the chicks last night and they slept in the big coop with the adults. I’m really hoping they all go in tonight on their own.
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    🐣🐥Black Copper Marans and Whiting True Blues. Lots of videos🎥

    Only 1 pointy marans egg out of the basket hatched. So, I expected only 1 cockerel out of all the chicks that hatched. I think there’s about 16 chicks running around and about half look like cockerels. I don’t have any good pics but they look a lot like this guy.
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    🐣🐥Black Copper Marans and Whiting True Blues. Lots of videos🎥

    The chicks are about 4-1/2 weeks old now and the second broody hen has stopped taking care of the chicks today. I’ll see if she decides to roost in the coop tonight. I’m definitely seeing atleast half of the marans x whiting true blue chicks are cockerels. Making some deviled eggs
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    🐣🐥Black Copper Marans and Whiting True Blues. Lots of videos🎥

    Here’s a video with the chicks. I’m seeing a few cockerels here on day 31
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    🐣🐥Black Copper Marans and Whiting True Blues. Lots of videos🎥

    There was only 1 marans chick that was from a pointy egg. All other chicks should be pullets according to the egg shape index theory. Most of the air cells were too hard to identify in my dark brown and green eggs. That seems to be a lot easier to identify in white eggs. From what I can tell so...
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    Natural breeding thread

    I'd like to see that. I thought that's what this hen was doing.
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    🐣🐥Black Copper Marans and Whiting True Blues. Lots of videos🎥

    Ok, the egg shape experiment… I’m seeing some birds with vibrant yellow combs right now, but none have turn red yet. Some I suspect as boys…thick legs, wide and vibrant combs. @Ladybird CA I’ll try to get another video this week showing closeups of all the month old chicks. Would be amazing if...
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    Natural breeding thread

    Here’s my broody hens raising some chicks:
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