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OkieQueenbee Your bird is expressing birchen..... I would not use it in a copper program.... The bird is visually attractive but has nothing good to offer for egg color... Birchen tends to have the lightest eggs.... that has been my experience.

WHOA... mountain lion... Ug... I got predated not too long ago... Dogs... UG... and I have a hawk flock that keeps the peep count to a nice minimum :( ug... So PINK.... sorry to hear about the CAT... Dang it anyhow... I finally have some replacement hens... (fingers crossed as they are only 5...

Quote:By Debbie good one!

http://marans.eu/genetiqa.htm#genetiqa is the page on the marans website that explains quite a few difficulties in dealing with the breeding of this bird. This is the imported french version which they bred and have a long documented history with. It explains the link between the white...

When we breed these dark legged beauties it is really easy to overlook the genetic boo boos that hide, such as Wheaton on overmelanised birds and the silver birchen along with the many variation of Wildtype and BTB. That of course mean single mating and then mating back to that line checking...

GREAT IDEA!!!! We can also look at the French website and see what we can learn there... It is all written down by very experience poultiers.

Ditto Zanna.. Hi Pink!!! Long time no cheep...

This question is for Walt: Regarding leg color for the Black Marans. Do you find the white feathers to be a problem in the Black ones with the Black genetic code or are we trying to eliminate the melanisers in a bird that doesn't derive from black genes... Like Birchen? What are your...

Acechix... It is hard to assess the rooster (birchen) as he isn't quite all there.... I however do like his size and proportion. I do not have a problem with his topline... Yet... it is really hard to visualize a tail that doesn't exist... A thought on that would be.. Does the diet of your...

I have yet to see a single silver birchen female that can produce as well as a blue or black. The birchen doesn't hide much... If you have something that lays more than a 5 or 6 I would love to see it. I must admit I didn't work much with this line as the result were dissapointing and it was...

I will reply to the splash egg color question In my past experience the splash are more likely to have lighter egg color... It is more difficult to get the darkest shades of eggs from this color... There is such a complex set of genes that govern egg color and melaniser that some speculate...

Ya Mel.... where ya been??? LOL!!!!

Honestly I thought I was on the wrong thread.... I had to check....

okay I am lost.... which one is a silver? I am seeing things... Deleware and birds with yellow in the legs and beaks....Is it my monitor?

Wow a potato post (goodie) I have an experiment going with potatos... two really... One experiment is using an old grain sack with organic dirt in it to grow potatos (whites) and the other experiment is with yukon gold in a bucket and grafting other nightshade plants to it... like roma...

Pink: Amen to the Comb thing!!! I would take lots of other faults first...maybe all... I think I would take a one legged bird first!!!

Galen: I posted a picture of mossy traits at the beginning of the Black Copper thread... I believe they might still be there Quote:

WHAT??? Debbi, I do hope you are on the phone giving out the shipping address... Ruth....

Debbi: where did you get that mutt... OMGosh.. Mine was small because he was still young Math Ace: THat is the cutest leghorn ever...

okay what thread do I have to go to in order to view the exchequer leghorns... gotta get me some of those... BTW... I think your birds traded recipes for eggs.