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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Thinking about it my Brahmas also lay rather long and pointed eggs, and they definitely have this character. It’s funny then when you think about it that Marans ideally should have rounded eggs when they’re at heart a dual purpose breed.
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    This is fascinating, and entirely believable for Chanel. I do have a younger hen (45 weeks) laying a similar shape so when I identify which one I’ll check it out for this fat pad.
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    Marans genetic and how to breed them to SOP

    @Chooks man do you have any pictures of a cuckoo Marans x blue copper Marans? I’ve heard that barring and blue can interact in a blurry way rather than looking clearly barred. I was wondering what to expect from my Wellington x Chanel eggs.
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    BlueTheBrahma’s thread!

    I’m thinking (this is before seeing them in the flesh, mind you), I’ll aim to grow out a cockerel from Chanel and one from those darkest eggs. This would allow them to be less related, but also prevent either carrying any of Loki’s genes. I liked Loki for many reasons but making sure neither...
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    BlueTheBrahma’s thread!

    Got this egg today. This is like the egg I saw Claudie lay when she just started. But I haven’t had one in a while so she must have stopped laying, so non of her eggs in the incubator. I thought the longer speckled eggs next to Chanel’s in the inner ring were Claudies that had changed as she...
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    I shared these on a different thread but I thought they deserved to go here too. Chanel is almost 4 years old now, just put on weight post moult. I’d say she’s around 8 to 8.5 lbs now, as heavy as Wellington was when I sold him. She just seems to get better with age. There’s three of her eggs...
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    Reviving the English Golden Cuckoo Marans

    Exactly. The writing accompanying the standard even mentions using cuckoo hens for sex linked hybrids, but ignored the autosexing of the golden. The chairman of the Marans club lives near me and seemed interested in the project, so I’m hoping I can get some interest to spread the variety out...
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    Reviving the English Golden Cuckoo Marans

    I know, that’s why I find it so odd in a way that they’ve gone extinct or under the radar here. I’d get it for a random combination but these are literally in the breed standard. Coppers aren’t even recognised by the English Marans standard, yet they’re everywhere, so how did they never get bred...
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    Reviving the English Golden Cuckoo Marans

    This isn’t the focus of the project, but I also have 12 lavender silver Marans eggs from imported French lines. They are part of the project, but not at the forefront. They’ll offer true recent French blood and associated type and better egg colour than my cuckoos (lighter than my darkest...
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    Reviving the English Golden Cuckoo Marans

    Otter, Badger and Toad. Classic English Dark Cuckoos. These are extended black (E) based rather than birchen. I haven’t set any of their eggs this time (to my knowledge!), but they’re from the same guy as Belle and Esmeralda. I plan to use them to inject nice quality dark barring, pure white...
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    Reviving the English Golden Cuckoo Marans

    Esmeralda Belle These two I bought as pullets from a breeder I’d been in contact with for a while. Very dark egg line plus decent type confirmation, rare to see advertised on Facebook where I came across them. Not got the sheer bulk yet of my own line, but welcome genetic diversity plus egg...
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    Reviving the English Golden Cuckoo Marans

    Mole, my Silver Cuckoo English Marans hen. He’s sister/relative to Wellington. Nice stout hen, tidy tail and small comb. She’s currently suffering with a blocked crop, so hoping I can get her through it so she can be bred to the F1 cockerels to give F1 double barred English type cockerels. Her...
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    Reviving the English Golden Cuckoo Marans

    Loki, my original BCM cock. Sold him as soon as I got a better son (which took a while but I wasn’t hatching loads out) because… that tail. He was out of a dark egg and is the sire to Claudie and Joan. Fanatic colour though, I appreciate his input on these great pullets. Napoléon, Loki x Chanel...
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    Reviving the English Golden Cuckoo Marans

    As soon as they’re breeding true for colour (regardless of leg feathering) I’d be eager to get them spread out across the country. Won’t be for a year and a half to two years though probably. I’d be willing to send unfinished project birds to anyone understanding where they are at and what to...
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    Reviving the English Golden Cuckoo Marans

    I know. Chooks man has said before she aged like wine. Even truer this side of the moult now she’s put weight on again and come into condition. Ignoring her big spike on her comb, she’s a class Marans hen. Blessed to get her out of eBay hatching eggs before I even knew enough about the breed to...
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