if your are limited to have as many rooster ,than chose wisely .
let them do some more growing ,so you can pick the best one
I give my neighbors egg/ cockerels and a cull pullets .they love me for it and they leave me along doing my thing .
chooks man
he is a keeper and he is an asset to you in the future .
I always have one or 2 overly marked cockerels/rooster .because this days we see more black hens than true black copper one ( hen with a lovely coppery hackle )
here a photo of my blue cockerel like yours .overly marked .
chooks man
100% is the best out of the 3 and is a keeper .
he has extra red on his chest too much ,but can be useful to add hackle color on the black hens ( black copper without copper neck ).
chooks man
he is a keeper for sure .
very rare to get a Blue copper cockerel with that type of rich copper .
love his red shoulder .
need a better photos of him
chooks man
that is great you have a BCM and BLCM to mate him to.
he ll throw well colored Black copper and blue copper progeny ,because he is well colored and the color type come from the Rooster .
good luck with him .
love to see his chicks one day.
chooks man
he is single barred golden cuckoo .
great type and colour .
if you don t have his proper cuckoo hens you can breed him to a Black copper /Blue copper and you will get 50% each .
chooks man
breed the splash they will breed true.
the blue are not a good breeders by them selves . they need a black to keep them balanced .
the blue do no breed true .
chooks man
all Scientific data . Can any one show me a study done on the marans breed NOT any other breed please .
I m working with my team specific on the marans breed . we just started 3 years ago ,but we are going to catalogue this breed from all different angles .
BIRCHEN MARAN ER/ER is selected...
you lost me here my friend .
my English is backyard chooks English . does mean what I said .
I did not said the Mahogany is not restrictor
I did not say ,you said the Black copper marans does not have melanin in its shanks and feet .
I said you don t know the marans genome . I do not care...
Melanotic allele: Ml (1971):
First described by Moore and Smyth (1971), after extracting it from a randombreeding recessive white population previously described by Jeffrey (1947). Ml is incompletely dominant autosomal mutation that extends eumelanin into the normally red areas of pyle-zoned...
you are absolutely wrong about almost every thing you said .
you seem to me you have no knoledge about the marans chooks breed .
you are talking about some thing else.
The RED SHOULDER an d SPECKED BREAST ae not caused by the Mahogany .it is caused by the AUTOSSOMAL RED ( BCM , Wheaten...
Yeah you are correct the eb/eb is a partridge brown.
Wheaten are accepted by the French and other country standard as a pure variety .
the problem is some wheaten are Ewh or eWh dominant to the wild type ( mean if we cross a wheaten variety to a salmon variety e+ we end up with a wheaten...
Good question .
the chooks are divided to 6 family genetically speaking . they are classify by they dominance .
1st is the most dominant family is the E/E Extended Black .uniform Black chooks
2nd is ER/ER Hackle family ( Birchen) .this family have 2 colors contrasting each other ,body...
they are nice more than half of them are good color .
hatch only the dark one .that will make it easy for you to select chicks when they are fully grown .
good luck to you .
chooks man
scrambled egg ,they love them .
I give them earth worm .cricket and all sort of bugs I can find .
best photos are taking after a cricket treat . they chase them and run around with them ,trying to still them from each other .
they come all pump up and they comb and face goes red .
when...