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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Excuse the lack of good photos. 11 Marans chicks 2 blue silver cuckoos (Chanel’s) 6 silver cuckoos 3 lavender silvers I’ll get better photos but there’s already some chunky looking ones.
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    Reviving the English Golden Cuckoo Marans

    12 hatched, one lavender that hatched later was trampled to death before I could intervene. So 11 just moved to she silkies. 3 lavender silver 6 silver cuckoo (I won’t pretend I’m certain who’s who anymore, but I have pictures and written details to hopefully tell the apart) 2 blue silver cuckoo...
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    Reviving the English Golden Cuckoo Marans

    Here’s the first chick out (there’s two almost three now). Very much like a BCM or birchen Marans at this stage, with a little extra white spot on its head due to the barring allele.
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    Reviving the English Golden Cuckoo Marans

    Yep. Basically I’m breeding the gold into the Silver cuckoo pattern to get golden cuckoos. The cockerels from this hatch will actually be the way this happens, as they will be split for gold.Duke of Wellington, my SCM cock. I’ve sold him now, but he’s the sire of the F1 chicks.
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    Reviving the English Golden Cuckoo Marans

    Silver cuckoo Marans Like the golden cuckoo but S/S based. In the English standard, separate from the dark cuckoo which is also S/S but E based rather than E^R.
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    Reviving the English Golden Cuckoo Marans

    First chick out. An SCM x BCM F1, clean legs too which is a nice surprise.
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    Reviving the English Golden Cuckoo Marans

    Honestly, I really dislike the wording of this standard. To me, they should be golden/black with light blue (probably more likely straw in hackles) bars, not the other way around.
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    Reviving the English Golden Cuckoo Marans

    The standard for GCMs (UK) says light blue grey bars even in the hackle strangely. I always thought it was odd. I think the legbar standard might be a more realistic way of describing it.
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    BlueTheBrahma’s thread!

    Charlie started laying again, she’s 5 now and my only original chicken. A big double yolker, next to Chanel’s egg (large BCM) for comparison.plus a nice looking Wellie egg next to a Marans.
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    Reviving the English Golden Cuckoo Marans

    First pips…
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    Reviving the English Golden Cuckoo Marans

    Esmeralda has returned to the flock today. Not 100% but whatever was wrong seems to be passing now. Very odd but nice to see.
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    Reviving the English Golden Cuckoo Marans

    The breed standard for the Legbar. I thought the gold legbar was a good comparison because the male has very similar plumage to the GCM male. I suppose the main difference is that they describe the light barring colour as straw rather than light blue, though that could be down to e+ vs E^R...
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    Reviving the English Golden Cuckoo Marans

    Three(ish) days to go for the F1s and lavenders…
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    Reviving the English Golden Cuckoo Marans

    She’s actually perked up a bit today, standing and walking much more.
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    Reviving the English Golden Cuckoo Marans

    Thank you! I can’t wait to see the little ones and the F1 cockerels.
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