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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Beautiful birds and eggs. I’m jealous
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    Raising Chocolate Eggers / Novogen Color Chocolate from Hillside Hatchery / Freedom Ranger Hatchery

    Cool! I’m looking forward to see how dark the eggs are. I’d be curious to see how your extra cockerels end up filling out too.
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Are those eggs from your back crosses or from your pure marans?
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    Wrath's Marans

    Kiko is looking pretty impressive!
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    Marans and Back-crossed OE Breeding Project.

    I agree. Since I learned that halos are an sop fault for marans, they’ve stuck out like a sore thumb to me haha.
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    Marans and Back-crossed OE Breeding Project.

    Sorry I’m just now seeing your post. Those are super cool looking! Do you think they’ll all pass on brown egg genes since they don’t have a pea comb?
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    At what age would 25 CC become noticeable?

    I raise my Cornish cross on a similar size lot and have no issues with noise or smells. They are super quiet. They only care about food. You can definitely use your shed to get them to 3 weeks old and then put them outside. I do 2 batches a year; one in May and one in August. Both outside with...
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    Yep that’s the one. It kind of makes me want to raise bresse again.
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    Straub’s search for colored eggs

    Nice. Good luck with your hatch. It’ll be exciting to see how your olive eggers turn out. I watched a YouTube video of some chefs in London taste testing several breeds of chicken, and the marans was ranked nearly as high as the bresse.
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    What do you plan to hatch?
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    Marans and Back-crossed OE Breeding Project.

    I get what you mean. From what I’ve experienced it’s been about 7-8 months before my olives or marans start to lay, so that adds even more time.
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    Marans and Back-crossed OE Breeding Project.

    That’s really interesting-it looks like Christy’s eggs inherited most of the minty color from the EE. Christy x Kong pullets would be way cool. I’d imagine you’d get a real nice dark green out of that? I forgot you had the Ayam Cemanis from your broody too. Too many possibilities haha
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    Marans and Back-crossed OE Breeding Project.

    Cool! I’d love to see what colors they end up laying. I think everyone wants the really dark marans eggs (myself included). I haven’t seen anyone trying to sell back-crossed olives in my area, so eventually I want to get a good line going for that.
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    Marans and Back-crossed OE Breeding Project.

    It’s a cross of a marans rooster and F1 olive egger pullet. The marans rooster came from a #4 or #5 shade red like the one I just posted, and the olive egger was a tractor supply pullet. I have 2 that hatched from this cross. One lays the cool speckled eggs and the other lays a really nice...
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    Marans and Back-crossed OE Breeding Project.

    Nice! Do you plan on crossing your olive rooster to any marans? Or breeding back to your olive egger pullets?
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