Posts by culler

Just some observations from someone that has bred a few BC and several other colors of Marans. The middle toe Gene has nothing to do with the Marans having stubs on the middle and a little fuzz on the web. Thinking this just muddles up...

Quote: Originally Posted by pinkchick     You can get nice feathering in a couple of generations if you use a heavily feather shanked bird over the medium to light feathered. You will...

Quote: Originally Posted by ChickChickChicky  I recently bought 6 BCM chicks out of supposedly good bloodlines, 5 of them are 5 weeks old, the other is 2 .5 weeks old. On close inspection today I noticed that two of...

Vicki, I would rather the BC chicks have considerable white around the head and white throat and chest and run down the belly. I originally thought that was where all the white feathers were coming from but through testing that it had...

Quote: Originally Posted by BarnGoddess01  I guess that brown spot means they are missing some sort of melanizing gene.    Barb and Vicki, The one thing I learned the hard way was that...

Quote: Originally Posted by bigtuna  ok yes i know i should be more patient , at least thats what my wife says to me, but was wondering what the tale tale signs are for determining if the bcm chic is a male or fem....

Just a short note on the Brown spot on the BC Marans. The last 400 chicks I hatched last year and showed pictures on here had the brown around the head. The female ended up Mossy and the males were over brown breasted and all were sent...

Arielle, If you set up female and male matings you can still breed the two lines together. Best policy is just do test matings at the start and see whick works best for what you would want to see. In all the years I have had chickens I...

Quote: Originally Posted by Harris5  Several experienced breeders suggested the cross to create a line of GCM that breeds true and improves a few characteristics. For example, all but one of the chicks hatched...

Quote: Originally Posted by Budda's Birds  I have a question about the undercolor in the males.  what is consider a light slate?  I don't know if this is a good photo to show enough of his undercolor, but...