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Kim, as you know we are all to impatient with the fowl. I do not cull for Dark Eye until I am ready to put the fowl together for the breeding season. I have to say I have used the Dark Eye fowl in breeding and single mated and have not found it to be a problem in the breeding aspect. I have some young pullets that are 6 months and are just now getting the correct color.
We all know that it doesn't take an SOP bird to raise SOP showable off spring. The only time I would worry about the eye color is if I was getting ready to pick showable fowl.
I have heard this advice several times on the Marans threads and wondered why so now I know. I was going to try to do 2 pens if I decided to breed the Splash and the Black Coppers but if I can only do one then it'll have to be Black priority in the long run. Thanks.Post for all doing the Blue Copper-Black Copper-Splash matings. This is mostly for the new BYC members and anyone else interested. The Genetic formula will tell your what color you will get breeding these together but can not tell you what quality you will get color wise. Breed the Blue Copper and splash from these matings anyway you would like but do not breed the Black Copper offspring back into your Black Copper you are breeding to the APA SOP as they will contaminated your line of Black Copper. The black copper from these cross matings will not have the required nice black feathered lower half of the bird that is required. All that is needed is look at the pictures of the of the black copper from the matings. These three colors should not be refered to as B-B-S as that is for Black, Blue and splash and there is a difference.
Gorgeous birds!