Ugh, no kidding. My Blue Copper is very promising but his copper is coming in verrrry slowly. I think I look at him closely every. day. trying to see more!Agreed. We poultry people are not so good at "try wait..."
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Ugh, no kidding. My Blue Copper is very promising but his copper is coming in verrrry slowly. I think I look at him closely every. day. trying to see more!Agreed. We poultry people are not so good at "try wait..."
I would say it would be about 50% will be correct maybe more. I don't know if that is a dom trait or not.
I went back to see how old your "dark eyed" pullets were...six weeks is too young to tell how they are going to turn out. I have 9 Birchen and Black Copper Marans chicks and of all of them only one of the group had lighter pale yellowish eyes at 6 weeks. Now only one or two are still dark. My Blue Copper roo who is just now four months old had yellowish eyes when I got him at 3 months, he now has lovely dark bay eyes (avatar). So you just don't know yet!They both have very dark eyes. I read above they're supposed to have Bay eyes? I'm new to chickens in general so I love finding new info on all my breeds
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Funny you are the second person I have heard use the term Over Melanized with dark eyes. I could see why someone would but I don't see that is a 100%. I have birds with copper and proper leg color with dark eyes.
When you say "chicks" do you mean pretty much at hatch?In my experience-
The greenish-gray colored eyes of chicks and juveniles will be the color that is desired in Marans upon maturity. The yellowish colored eyes will be too light, and if they do change, they usually are still too light upon maturity. I have also found that the very dark eyed chicks and juveniles will not change to the desired color, not to say that they do not lighten a bit upon maturity, as I have seen them lighten, but I have never seen them lighten enough to be considered correct.
As a general rule in my breeding program I keep young birds that have the greenish-gray colored eyes.