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    BlueTheBrahma’s thread!

    Merry Christmas to all my friends who let me ramble on in this thread of mine. I hope you and your families are well and have a great time, and your hens gift you with plenty of lovely eggs. God bless.
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Merry Christmas to all my friends on this thread. I hope you and your families are well and have a great time, and your hens gift you with plenty of lovely eggs. God bless.
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    Wrath's Marans

    Merry Christmas Everybody! God bless you all. (Yes I’m ahead of you guys in time but I though I’d get the message in before going to bed.)
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    Wrath's Marans

    This gives me hope for mine. We got two Marans eggs today, so maybe that’s a second pullet laying (or collection timing meant two from the same).
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    Wrath's Marans

    I haven’t written an overview but I’ll waffle about my plan for a bit. It will be more than a little guide to be fair. I want to at least acknowledge the history and origin of the breed, the go into the science of both good type and egg colour, treating those as kind of twin pillars. Then it...
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    Wrath's Marans

    I’m sorry for you. Praying this year is like to you. I’ve already written a 120,000 word novel, so hopefully a little guide to marans should be a piece of cake! (Hopefully…)
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    Wrath's Marans

    @Chooks man sorry for all the questions as soon as you return. You were at some point writing a book on marans, right? How’s that going. I’m also writing one actually.
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    Wrath's Marans

    I know it’s a bit arbitrary but I really like her face from a personality perspective. Seems to have part Kong and part Solo (which I guess is exactly what she should look like). I like her short strong beak.
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    I’m hoping I can get a cockerel off her next year. She’s had 100% fertility in every hatch I’ve done from her, even this year with her being 3 years old. I want these genes for fertility and longevity, plus her type just seems to refine with her age. I’m blessed to have had her as my F0.
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Here’s Chanel, my F0 BlCM hen. She’s getting old but has been the dam to my best French marans. She laid 7/8 coloured eggs in her first two seasons. @Chooks man you liked her most when I first got my marans, and I can understand why.when she was a pullet.
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Thank you so much for the compliments. I learned a lot from you, you even shared this thread with me, so thanks for all that. Hopefully I can improve the UK’s marans stock by sharing my eggs and knowledge. The silver cuckoos are F0s, so I was very lucky to get such a good pair to hatch out, but...
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    Wrath's Marans

    I’m glad to hear you’re doing well now. It’s good to have friends nearby. Wishing you the best.
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    @Chooks man you may have seen my pictures already but I wanted to show off these few to you. My favourite pair of silver cuckoo English and black copper French Marans from this year. Unfortunately I lost the BCM cock but have his sisters and dam. I’ll get some pictures of the nice dark cuckoos soon.
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    What is the best combination of rooster/hen to produce a muffed and bearded cuckoo maran?

    You wouldn’t really make a marans, the outcome is going to be a cuckoo olive egger or cuckoo chocolate egger depending on which egg colour you standardised. I don’t see why you couldn’t hatch a few of these differ crosses, the pick the ones that look like what you want, then breed them.
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    BlueTheBrahma’s thread!

    I can’t remember how rainy it had been when it happened - it’s basically waterlogged now though. The runs have good roofs though, so the chickens themselves can stay dry. There were no symptoms at all. My best photos of Napoléon were taken the day before he died, you can see his face was well...
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