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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    I may have been too high with my estimate then. It was 92% humidity outside when I looked earlier.
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    @Maranmad I’m not going to pretend I probably didn’t just lob water into the incubator and hope for the best most of the time (I actually left my incubator running while I was in Mablethorpe once so it may have been too low around hatching, I didn’t have fanatic success but not bad). I think...
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    I’ll try and think back to my hatches when I have used incubators, since I think I’m going to be the only one with comparable (aka the same) climate.
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    Marans genetic and how to breed them to SOP

    I agree with you, I much prefer the more subtle hackle markings. Thanks!
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    Marans genetic and how to breed them to SOP

    @Chooks man this question I was thinking off about a different breed, but have you ever recorded what Db looks like on a silver wheaten base? Are they like silver Colombians with less hackle markings or do they not follow the pattern you see in golds/buffs?
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    I use broodies most of the time, so I’ll let the incubator hatchers answer this. Pictures of your marans are more than welcome here. We can even evaluate them for you if you wanted.
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    Hatching Black French Copper Marans - Tips

    Feel free to ask on here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/international-black-copper-marans-thread-breeding-to-the-sop.1122465/page-2581#post-28990484 Best of luck!
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    I’ve never seen the roundabout myself, don’t spend much time in the south. Seen pictures though. That’s a lovely thing to have a breed tying you back to a place like that.
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    I love the SD welsummers more than silver marans or similar because you get the high contrast black and white cocks but that lovely colour on the hens. Almost feels like two varieties in one. I’m prioritising marans for a while though, busy trying to revive the golden cuckoo English standard...
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    Yep yours are partridge. It’s a confusing term because I think in America partridge usually means pencilled partridge like in Brahmas or Wyandottes. And then there is the genetic partridge allele (e^b) which is a variant separate but similar to duckwing. They are actually gold duckwings.
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    What country are you in? I always assume people are American here but I didn’t know Dorkings ever had much of a presence outside of the British Isles.
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    Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

    In the UK (and I think Australia and in theory the US) there is the (gold) partridge and silver duckwing. Both wildtype, but the silvers are S/S rather than s+/s+. Silver Dorkings are the same pattern. I don’t think silvers are recognised in Europe, at least not Holland. They are much, much...
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    Marans genetic and how to breed them to SOP

    @Chooks man do you know of having homozygous I/I in a red Pyle/white copper increases that unwanted washing out of the red compared to I/i+? Or is I/I still better to reduce black spots/paint like white?
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    Marans genetic and how to breed them to SOP

    Are all black tail marans Db rather than Co?
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    Wrath's Marans

    I love Poppy more every time I see him. How many silver boys do you have now/plan to keep?
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