6 months ago while waiting for my online purchase of chicks I made the mistake of walking into Tractor Supply for some odds and ends needed for my soon arriving chicks. To my husbands dismay I passed by the live chicks for sale and purchased an assortment of bantams. Fast forward a couple...
I went to a breeder about 12 weeks ago to purchase some back copper marans. However when I got there, he had several breeds of chicks in one brooder. He seemed very confident choosing the black copper maran chicks for me even though there were other breeds of dark chicks in the brooder as...
I have 3 Black Copper Maran Roos which I plan on breeding with my BCM hens. I’m hoping to strengthen the dark egg color. I also have Cuckoo Maran hens. If I cross the Black Copper Maran Roos with the Cuckoo Hens, will their offspring retain the dark egg color when they lay?