International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[lmck]

Chooks Man,
thank you for your input! I would have kept the wrong one! Please tell me what is not right about #3 so I know what I should be looking for. 2 and 3 do both have more straw color feathers and all have some white in the fluff under their feathering. I'm hoping as they mature it will be black???

 

[winterhorses]

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Thanks so much! There's a lot to learn, but I'm looking forward to it!

 

[Chooks man]

Chooks Man,
thank you for your input! I would have kept the wrong one! Please tell me what is not right about #3 so I know what I should be looking for. 2 and 3 do both have more straw color feathers and all have some white in the fluff under their feathering. I'm hoping as they mature it will be black???

number 3 he has a really bad comb at the end compared to the other 2 .

but the photos are not always true .very hard to see any thing true ( light , movement , photographer , etc.............)

better one when you have a time .

what sort of pullets you have ?

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

sorry to hear that. I hope he will get better soon.

Hi Chickengr .
HERCULUS is getting better slowly . start limping on it ..

how is your chooks ? now that summer heat is past .they must be start molting?

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Here are some pics of my 6 month old BCM cockerel Please critique him, be very honest. I don't want to start off with bad birds My intention is to breed so











want to be very diligent.

very hard to tell from this photos .

in some photos he look great but in other ( last 2 ) he look like he have a hump on his back ( left side )

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

from this photo he looks great .
great red copper hackle and lancet .
nice long back
nice wide shoulders.
nice tail

No sign of deformity .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

from this photos .he look he has a hump on his back ,left side

Photos are very important .

I don t know your chooks so display them properly if you wish for a fair and good comment NOT critique .

chooks man

 

[chickengr]

Hi Chickengr .
HERCULUS is getting better slowly . start limping on it ..

how is your chooks ? now that summer heat is past .they must be start molting?

chooks man

are you reading my mind? I wanted to ask a question about molting. I read that chickens molt at about 18 months old. mine molt younger (12-14 months). is there any problem with them?

another question: I picked up luna and noticed that she got heavier but I still feel her keel bone and there are no worms visible. I wormed all of my chickens with levamisole, and luna and a few others with panacur as well. why is she still skinny, is there any other problem with her? she looks ok, eats well and her crop is like a big ball.

 

[dvoice]

Out of curiosity. Egg colour? I'm going for darker eggs. Does eat color make a difference? Also I've got pullets from 2 different groups of hens. One group was all black the other was normal colouring. Will the offspring from all black lay a darker egg? Same roo over both groups and roo was from a dark laying breeding group. Most of the pullets from the all black hens now have some copper but not as much as the others.

 

[Chooks man]

are you reading my mind? I wanted to ask a question about molting. I read that chickens molt at about 18 months old. mine molt younger (12-14 months). is there any problem with them?

another question: I picked up luna and noticed that she got heavier but I still feel her keel bone and there are no worms visible. I wormed all of my chickens with levamisole, and luna and a few others with panacur as well. why is she still skinny, is there any other problem with her? she looks ok, eats well and her crop is like a big ball.

Hi Chickengr ,the chooks do molt at a year old or around that age ,

at 18 month is they real molt , they will display all the genetic make up . they will put why true coat ,

Don t to worry about Luna s .you wormed them all ready .so she should be fine .

some chooks don t put weight on the heat of the summer .

I have around 70 hens ,no 2 of them weight the same , anything from 2.8KG to 4 Kg .

give them some Apple cider Vinegar . it is good for them .

chooks man