International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[Chooks man]

breeding a Solid Black and Dominant white marans,
Cockerel .Black Mamba . E/ER .s+/s+
pullets 6 dominat white silver based hens. ER/ER. S/_.
F1 progeny will be half solid black and olid white ,all keepers other half will be mixture .all culls,
this pen has a body type .correct tail .and good coloured eggs 5/6

expecting good looking chicks from this pen . love the contrast of the black colour of Black Mamba and the white of the hen . my best pen .

chooks man

 

[Magnolia Hill]

Here's a wheaten pairing I'm excited about, figured I would share.

 

[aliciaplus3]

I only have marans cross at my place right now but I Love to follow the progress here and drool over your birds. It is very difficult to find even decent birds here on the western slope of Colorado, anything more than hatchery stock requires a trip over 6 hours one way. I keep hoping and working with my mutts. Working twords a more meaty bird in my backyard.

 

[Chooks man]

Here's a wheaten pairing I'm excited about, figured I would share.View attachment 1921677 View attachment 1921684

gorgeous trio ,
your cockerel is high quality stock .great body type ,body pattern and comb .love the small size of the comb .
the hen are good too /I like the one on the right ,thick one .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

I only have marans cross at my place right now but I Love to follow the progress here and drool over your birds. It is very difficult to find even decent birds here on the western slope of Colorado, anything more than hatchery stock requires a trip over 6 hours one way. I keep hoping and working with my mutts. Working twords a more meaty bird in my backyard.

love your avatar .
receiving NN fertile egg the 7th of this month

chooks man

 

[aliciaplus3]

love your avatar .
receiving NN fertile egg the 7th of this month

chooks man

Mine are just project birds I have been playing with for the last several years but I am happy with some of the results. I have a couple boys in the growout group that are maybe born july and pushing 3.5 maybe 4 pounds? Their daddy is a Delaware cross but he was 5 pounds live at 12 weeks!
Sorry I am on the wrong thread to talk meat birds.... part of my interest in the marans is the size and the dark eggs. I Love a Dark egg to add to my egg basket. Most of my marans come from a cuckoo marans cock that I was given, i crossed him into my flock and have been hatching the darkest eggs i can find.

the eggs in the back are copper marans that I got from s friend that lives down the road from me. I managed to hatch 2 from here earlier this summer and they look ok to me. I will have to get pics when I get home Thursday.... I thought I had taken some but those girls Move fast lol

 

[Magnolia Hill]

I appreciate that Jose, I'm pretty excited to see the offspring.

 

[Chooks man]

Mine are just project birds I have been playing with for the last several years but I am happy with some of the results. I have a couple boys in the growout group that are maybe born july and pushing 3.5 maybe 4 pounds? Their daddy is a Delaware cross but he was 5 pounds live at 12 weeks!
Sorry I am on the wrong thread to talk meat birds.... part of my interest in the marans is the size and the dark eggs. I Love a Dark egg to add to my egg basket. Most of my marans come from a cuckoo marans cock that I was given, i crossed him into my flock and have been hatching the darkest eggs i can find.View attachment 1921757 the eggs in the back are copper marans that I got from s friend that lives down the road from me. I managed to hatch 2 from here earlier this summer and they look ok to me. I will have to get pics when I get home Thursday.... I thought I had taken some but those girls Move fast lol

you are doing very well . bravo
chooks man.

 

[Chooks man]

I appreciate that Jose, I'm pretty excited to see the offspring.

good luck to you .

love your avatar . silver salmon . best looking pattern
chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Received the custom made chooks leg band . I really like them
200 band for pullets 20mm
50 band for cockerels 22mm
MRM .misty River Marans + number from 1 200 for pullets and 1 to 50 cockerels
year 19. and AU Australia . colour of this year RED .

only the selected chooks are going to be tagged . my goal is 250 marans chicks high standard .

chooks man