he is gorgeous tho!!! so the bantams do not seem to lay as dark an egg correct?
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Unless that is poop on the bird's wattle, something is wrong here. Marans should never have white on any part of the head's skin. I think this bird is a cross and has foreign blood in it. The technicalities of the Black Copper color are wrong and the breed type ( bird's silhouette ) is not correct. Basically, all it has going for it is size and basic color genes to make a BCM correctly with wise breeding ( see below). That said, if you take it and breed it to full-blooded BCM hen ..and then take the best males and breed them back to that same BCM hen for 3 generations you might end up with something.
hey... i have a great Copper Maran Bantam - mix w/ Mille Fleur D'uccle. The copper maran is dominant, so the hen and rooster look just like regular feather legged copper maran but smallI have a question for everyone out there. Has anyone ever heard of a Black Copper Maran Bantam chicken breed ? I ask this because I have been working on now for just under a year to produce a Black Copper Maran Bantam breed and I think I may have found sucess. I won't go into details of which breeds i've mixed but I can tell you one of them was a Black Copper Maran. I am now breeding my adults to see if their gens will be passed down to their offsrping. If they are and the new offspring produce the same reddish brown eggs I was thinking of selling chicks, but that won't be for some time. But let me get back to why I am posting this question...... Has anyone ever heard of a Black Copper Maran Bantam chicken breed ?
Do you have pictures?hey... i have a great Copper Maran Bantam - mix w/ Mille Fleur D'uccle. The copper maran is dominant, so the hen and rooster look just like regular feather legged copper maran but small
I wasnt even working on having bantams, it just happened. Here's the little roo and hen (they were born in Aug 2022).. he looks just like his dad but MUCH smaller . you can see how dominant the Maran is over d'Uccle . feathered legs too like dad (Black Copper Maran), so that's a plus using 2 feather legged parents . Female also has great copper maran form i think.Do you have pictures?
There is many breeders working on Bantam Marans but only place I've seen them is on FB.
HiI am also working to create a Maran bantam. My birds are the result of a smaller BC Maran standard bred to my run of the mill bantams. I have then taken those females and bred them to a black bantam Langshan rooster. One of the daughters lays a brown egg but no where close to what you would like to see in this breed. The size is probably larger from what a proposed standard would look for, but its a beginning. I am hatching from this pullet and have nice feathering on the legs, straight combs, good vigor but white earlobes(the results of the Rosecomb bantams in the ancestry of the original cross).. I found that with the standard Maran, the fertility was not that high, but when a male was crossed to other non Maran, the fertility was close to 100%. That leads me to believe the fertility problems lies in the Maran females and not the males. As with any new breed, it takes many years to get a decent bantam to match what the standard bird looks like. I raise show Rosecombs and any color but black take 5+years to get a decent color to match what the standard calls for.