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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    I have always wanted to visit the Isles someday, for the art, history, and decent cheeses, and to look for the place that my maiden name comes from. It is so damp, though, that I might just melt like sugar in tea.
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    My ambient humidity is usually kept between 20 and 30%. I add a second water tray for lockdown, but I keep all the vents open. To monitor humidity, I watch the air cells, I use the humidity number as a guideline and not a rule. I have learned that Marans do indeed drown easy if there is too much...
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Legbars and marans, the turkeys hatch their own stuff now. My dear husband won't let me put turkey eggs in the incubator now;) I don’t have more than 2 big pens, so I just keep 2 breeds and rotate cock birds around as needed.
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    My first hatch of the season is for around Sunday the 25th. I still need to finish general room clean up around the hatcher and brooder. Those bloody mice invade my old brick shed every year, and every year I spend several days cleaning up after them:barnie
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    That will be the very hard part, unfortunately. Cuckoo Marans here are closer to barred rocks than actual Marans. When I get the ability, I'll probably be looking long and hard before investing.
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    If I were to pick up fresh blood, I'm probably going to get Cuckoo myself, especially if I can find silver cuckoo. There would be a much easier time refining them with my birchen based flock, plus no cross concerns.
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    A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

    So Shiver is the Mottled Slate with the yellow band (B/b cg/cg D/d n), and in the foreground is a red slate hen(b/b D/d), there are bronzes in the background and one more slate type.
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    A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

    Shes slate, technically, she has 1 slate gene. She has some dark spots.
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    A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

    Ive had marbling show up on 3 hens this year, 2 black and 1 blue! Looks like Narragansett plus.
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    A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

    Turkey shaped roofline? Yes.
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    I don’t know, maybe he's 10 months, but he has spurs that make me think over a year. He's got such a baby face.
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    This guy is an 18 month old black silver I have in the bachelor group. He's got some saddle patterned feathers on his thigh? Is that what I'm seeing here?
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    She's a little smallish, but she's young and mine are definitely slow to mature. I'm excited to see her finish filling out!
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    From a splash hen! Caught her on the nest. Nice job, lady.
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    This guy is going on 7 or 8 months, so he's got filling in to do, but before squabbling and random subzero temps, his comb was the nicest I've seen in a while. I'm hoping he gets some chunk or he won't be as good a keeper as I'd hoped.
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