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If you have eggs shipped in from someone else , let the eggs set for at least 24 hours before putting in an Incubator. 50-60 % is good hatch rate for shipped eggs. Would be best to have a practice hatch first. Don

The splash looks to be a male. The other chick is not a Marans.

When they get about 3-4 weeks old post a picture.

The BC Marans is for sure a male. Can't see enough about the Blue.

Sounds like you might have Mareks in your birds. I would not buy fowl unless they were vaccinate at hatch for Mareks.

If the person is selling straight run chicks, why would they let you sex the chicks and pick all the pullets. If I were selling straight run chicks I would pull out what I could get first and that would be what you could purchase. Pullets sell for more than cockerels or even straight run. Just...

This is what we see in a lot of BC Marans familys at present. He will never color up with enough Copper to be a good breeder.

I see some males there also.

It is much better to post actual picture as some of us will not open these up.

I would never buy a Marans from a Hatchery if I had any intentions of breeding to the SOP. I hatch all my chicks in an incubator. You can get a GQF stryo-foam incubator to hatch, Stay away from the incubators at tsc unless they say GQF.

I will just say now that if you do use any of these BC Marans to start your breeding program you will want to single mated and Mark all chick for your record. You will find that any faults that you have now will multiply greatly and you must cull heavy. I will say that I am not a fan of the...

First since you appear to be serious about raising Marans Question, Where did you get your Marans from at day one , will lead you through this if you will bear with me. The shafting is where the Quill of the feather is the wrong color. Take a look at the breast on a couple of the pictures...

In my experience the Copper Hackle is not an indicator that the first to copper up are males. No correlation.

looks to be a Black Cochin

Yes, you have a Blue and a black, I see no copper yet.

Pictures please.

It will be easy to tell the difference in the chicks, when you have them post a picture.

I hate to be the one to give you this info. but if you just breed back and forth with what you already have you will never breed the DQ out of them

The thing is that this cosmetic flaw is a DQ any way you look at it. I have always heard people say you buy the feed and take care of them so breed them anyway you would like. I wish you the best of luck in the future.