Black Copper Marans discussion thread

[Red Banks]

This is the eye color I'm taking about. They hatched early March.

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The eye color is good

 

[3riverschick]

Redbanks,
Thanks so much for weighing in on this thread!! Loving your post 13845 !!
Sound wisdom.
Best,
Karen

 

[Red Banks]

Just an example, but here is my boy Nobandy over time. Sorry I don't have more pictures to track the change each month.


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I should add, he was hatched 8/2016, and his eye color had changed completely by about 8-9 months old.

Love this progression. Thank you!

 

[LilJoe]

One of my cockerels with a mottled chest...

 

[Red Banks]

One of my cockerels with a mottled chest...
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Please post this on the International BCM thread. I am not familiar with this, perhaps someone else has encountered this in their line.

 

[Red Banks]

Redbanks,
Thanks so much for weighing in on this thread!! Loving your post 13845 !!
Sound wisdom.
Best,
Karen

Thank you Karen, I always enjoy your posts!

 

[Tiegrsi]

One of my cockerels with a mottled chest...

I had one similar to this, but with more white. Even the same kind of squarish feathers. It was a late blooming cockerel that I had thought was female until later. He turned out to be a very dark rooster with mossy feather tips.



I looked but couldn't find any pictures of him aged more - I culled him pretty early on. These were at about 2 months.

 

[Tiegrsi]

This is probably the best picture I have of Rose. He's the one hiding behind the pole, there, between the two other birds. He didn't have very coppery color, it was a bit more mahogany. The mossiness was barely noticeable unless you were looking closely.

 

[LilJoe]

I had one similar to this, but with more white. Even the same kind of squarish feathers. It was a late blooming cockerel that I had thought was female until later. He turned out to be a very dark rooster with mossy feather tips.

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I looked but couldn't find any pictures of him aged more - I culled him pretty early on. These were at about 2 months.

Any idea where this might have come from?

 

[Tiegrsi]

Any idea where this might have come from?

If you mean the line of Marans, I was told they were Greenfire 2015. I purchased them as chicks in August of 2016 from a breeder in my state (NC). I do not know where the odd coloring came from, and I've hatched many chicks from these birds and never had another like it, so I think he was likely the only one carrying the gene/s that caused it since we ate him instead of breeding him.