Man I miss this thread. It was so amazing in it's heyday! I'm from SC now and looking for Partridge Brahmas, Cuckoo or GoldenCuckooMarans and some Silkies. Maybe some Coronation Sussex too.
I know I am very late to this thread, but if you haven’t found out yet I would guess a Plymouth Rock. I have cuckooMarans and they are much dark than you hens. In CuckooMarans the Roos are very light in color (like barred rocks) but the hens are a darker grey with not much patterning. Hope...
I’ve been reading threads on here for quite a while, but just now decided to make an account. I got chicks in April/May/July and hopefully the first ones start laying soon! Here’s a breakdown of my beginner flock:
4/30/25 hatch:
1 Delaware - ordered 4, one made it past the first week
1...
You might look at Sand Hill Preservation Center: https://www.sandhillpreservation.com/chickens
They have most of those, but sell out quickly of some breeds. I didn't check those, I figure you can look and decide if that is what you want.
It does take patience to buy from Sand Hill. If you are an...
Hi all starting this thread pre-emptively as I'll be getting my chicks in the next couple of days.
(Anxiously waiting on shipping to be updated as it's been 12+ hours with no movement lol). I know I need to be patient but I'm anxiety ridden cause shipping not being updated has happened on my...
Yes, I’ve seen many ‘hatchery quality’ clean legged BCMs sold as ‘English standard Black Copper Marans’.
There is no such thing as an ‘English standard Black Copper Marans’. The varieties recognised buy the British Poultry Standards are Black, Dark Cuckoo, GoldenCuckoo and Silver Cuckoo. I...
Does anyone know what’s happened to the Goldencuckoomaransthread? It doesn’t exist when I search for it and the link Chooksman sent me doesn’t work anymore. I think he was the only member of this thread who used it so I don’t think anyone here will know. I’m happy to talk about them here but...
Bl is the allele abbreviation as well so Bl always makes sense to me to mean blue (even though B isn’t the allele for black, bl is).
I think the BCM thread’s general consensus is:
BCM= black copper marans
BlCM= blue copper marans
SCM= splash copper marans ???
(B/Bl)SBM= (black/blue) silver...
I hate to bring up an old thread, but I have a few chicks that are a bit confusing. I have three Blue Cucko Marans (Blue CM mom, Silkie/EE dad) that all have black skin. One has a white head spot and has black feathers, one has black feathers and no head spot, and another is more grayish with no...
I do not have a separate isolation coop. Funny thing is we just returned from Rural King with a $300 coop/run that we were going to build for the 4-week-old chicks I plan to add to my flock. My husband and I were watching the girls (six 15-week-old pullets) and talking about the placement of...
True Story! With my first flock (in a different state), I had 8 hens, 0 Roos, and four of my hens (cuckooMarans, silkie and silver Sebright bantam) always had at least one of my nesting boxes at 'no vacancy' at any given day of the week with their little broody backsides😂...thank god for my...
Hi all, I have a question about this bird that I’m actually quite embarrassed to ask at this point but it’s been on my mind. I had an old thread about him/her where most input was male at first but switched to female because wasn’t as light as most males are.
Right now I have 2 CuckooMarans in...