International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[marchick]

they look good

They are good for one thing and they look good makes two things they are good for!

 

[kfelton0002]

Well darn! I have always been told not to breed blue to splash it washes out the blue and splash to black gives you a better blue. I love the blues also! I hope they approve splash but they may not. Since they don't breed true. I guess my thinking is all wrong!

Splash x splash will breed true. I hope the APA admits them too. A black copper male over splash females works really well to get a nice blue color.

 

[marchick]

Yes they do!

 

[Tiegrsi]

Hello again! It's been a few months since I have posted, so I thought I'd pop in with an update!
Handsome has shown a lot of flaws after his first molt, and I've decided not to use him for breeding at all.
Nobandy was unfortunately taken by a predator, but fortunately, I did get from him one lovely son.

Wedo:

Wedo

• Tiegrsi
• Mar 17, 2018

Wedo 2

• Tiegrsi
• Mar 17, 2018
• 1

Snowbird:

Snowbird

• Tiegrsi
• Mar 17, 2018

A couple of my older girls:

1

• Tiegrsi
• Mar 17, 2018

2 of my older hens

A pair of pullets from Nobandy last year:

Young ladies

• Tiegrsi
• Mar 17, 2018

And my darkest laying pullet:

Dark girl

• Tiegrsi
• Mar 17, 2018

And her egg:

BCM egg

• Tiegrsi
• Mar 17, 2018

This season I am hoping to increase egg color in the progeny of some girls who lay nearer a to a 5, find out what kind of Copper Blues I can hatch from Snowbird, and increase the hackle color in my ladies. My girl that lays the darkest has the least color, so I'm really hoping to hatch a few better colored girls from her.

 

[kfelton0002]

Hello again! It's been a few months since I have posted, so I thought I'd pop in with an update!
Handsome has shown a lot of flaws after his first molt, and I've decided not to use him for breeding at all.
Nobandy was unfortunately taken by a predator, but fortunately, I did get from him one lovely son.

Wedo:

Wedo

• Tiegrsi
• Mar 17, 2018

Wedo 2

• Tiegrsi
• Mar 17, 2018
• 1

Snowbird:

Snowbird

• Tiegrsi
• Mar 17, 2018

A couple of my older girls:

1

• Tiegrsi
• Mar 17, 2018

2 of my older hens

A pair of pullets from Nobandy last year:

Young ladies

• Tiegrsi
• Mar 17, 2018

And my darkest laying pullet:

Dark girl

• Tiegrsi
• Mar 17, 2018

And her egg:

BCM egg

• Tiegrsi
• Mar 17, 2018

This season I am hoping to increase egg color in the progeny of some girls who lay nearer a to a 5, find out what kind of Copper Blues I can hatch from Snowbird, and increase the hackle color in my ladies. My girl that lays the darkest has the least color, so I'm really hoping to hatch a few better colored girls from her.

His son sure is handsome!! And your hens are beautiful with good egg color to boot! Well done!!

 

[kfelton0002]

No No.... I was not passing judgement on you. I was just relating my experience. I lost 5 good pullets/cockerels in 5 minutes to a possum. I know what they can do. I just have a hard time killing anything..... even a spider.

I dont like killing anything either so my husband does the dirty work. I had to kill a bantam chick that was suffering the other day and it hurt my soul.

 

[Chooks man]

JK!!! Well, sounds like the hens do everything. So tell us what the Roosters do?

Ah what roosters do ?
they yield more chicks than the hens 10 time or more one roo can sire over 1500 chick a year.
they dictate the body pattern and color .
they pass down all the Sex Linked genes to they daughters .
they contribute to the body mass and type but not as much as mama hen ,
they fix the eyes color .
they contribute in over all type of the chicks ,Autossomal genes

in mammals the male is the carrier of the male Sex chromosome X ( male XY and Female YY) but in Birds the Hen is the one who carrier the male sex chromosome Z ( Female ZW and Male ZZ )

chooks man

 

[Tiegrsi]

His son sure is handsome!! And your hens are beautiful with good egg color to boot! Well done!!

Thank you! I am bit concerned that he will develop a thumbprint in his comb, as both his father and uncle had one after about 1 year old. I will try to cull according to combs as well, though it's lower on my list of priorities.

I wish all my girls laid this dark! I have 2 pullets who lay about the same. My Splash hen lays a 4-5 and 2 girls that lay about a 6, the rest are around 5. Wedo came out of an egg that was a dark 6, so I am hoping he's got some good genes for egg color to lend the ladies.

 

[Red Banks]

Thank you, Marans are definitely my favorite. So friendly, sturdy, large eggs and good eating. What is not to like about them? I absolutely love them. If my Lavender Ameraucana rooster ends up infertile. I will add the lavender hens in with my Marans for olive eggers. Then use the lavender pen for a breeding pen. Maybe a splash rooster over some Black Copper hens. If I get a nice Splash rooster.

In my short chicken career I have had Bielefelders, Ameraucanas, Cream Legbars, Araucanas and Marans. I like Marans because they are the quiet. When I just had one rooster it was so quiet. He only crowed a couple of times a day.

 

[Hensndoes]

Just got the best news!!! Heading out of town and my man calls me to say he thinks Freckles is going broody again. He didn't know what to do so he took her egg away. I said PUT IT BACK!!!! Those day old chicks come in 2 or 3 weeks! So happy!!

Ok I'm better now