International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[Lilalienangel]

I'm super excited. 2 more days and I'll have BCM babies!!!

 

[Dry Creek Chickens]

I'm super excited. 2 more days and I'll have BCM babies!!!

Cool. All of these guys that I have are so neat to be around. I have other breeds that are not so easy going. Good luck with your hatch.

 

[kcrandall]

Three and a half months.

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There is nothing wrong with this cockerels legs. Certainly no signs of vulture hocks. If by T-Rex Legs you mean his shanks and feet were big when he was a chick that is normal because he is a cockerel. Cockerels tend to have larger shanks and feet than pullets as chicks especially around the 10 day mark.

 

[Chooks man]

Three and a half months.

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I don t see any wrong with these marans chicks . good head and comb
chooks man

 

[Dry Creek Chickens]

Thanks gents.

 

[Minky]

Hello folks. My marans are 16 weeks old today so I took some photos. I am trying to do my first round of "culling". Any opinions on my birds would be very helpful. I am new to marans. I am primarily breeding for egg colour, so I will not keep my splash. I will likely keep one cuckoo (he is nice looking) and I would like to have some help with these guys below. Faults and attributes.
One has a lot of copper- the other is mostly black. Is there a preference? Would the black one still be a BCM? Which is likely to have darker egg genes? Would it make sense to keep both and breed with my hens to see? Thanks

 

[Minky]

And here are two others, one lots of copper, one mostly black. Could you guys weigh in on which roosters out of these 2 and the last 2 are the better ones? In the ones below, the black rooster has one white feather on his left foot. Photos 1 and 2 are the blacker one, photos 3,4,6 are the coppery one, and 5 has both in it.

 

[Minky]

And then I have these two that I think are roosters... but they are way behind the others in terms of comb and rooster behaviour. Thoughts?
Pics 1 and 2 -smaller comb, feathered feet
Pics 3,4,5 slighter larger comb, clean feet

are these even roosters? I see curling feathers in front of their tails....
16 weeks, 1 day

 

[feliciadawn]

I am a complete novice -- but those last two look like pullets to me. I have a ~15 week copper marans (pullet in front in my picture) and she looks a lot like the first picture above, in terms of development.

 

[Minky]

No, I do think they are cockerels, just late developing Im pretty sure. My pullets all look just like your above. (about half the size of the cockerels)