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  1. BlueTheBrahma

    Pair of French Black Copper Marans for sale or trade, Nottinghamshire.

    Hi, I have a lovely BCM cock, Loki, who has been my main breeding sire for two years, but it’s time to replace him with his son. I’m willing to let him go with a hen, whose eggs are pictured. I had 100% fertility with this pair all last year, in hatches of one, two and ten. They carry the...
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    BlueTheBrahma’s thread!

    I’ve finally decided to make my own thread to stop filling the international BCM thread and @wrathsfarm ‘s thread with random nonsense! I am a breeder of Brahmas, Marans, Silver Duckwing Welsummers, Silkies and more, and wanted a place to share all of this with my friends here on BYC, while not...
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    Golden/silver duckwing Welsummer cockerel for sale, England.

    I recently got two silver duckwing welsumme cockerels off a friend. I breed SDWs myself but my rooster died at the start of the year. These cockerels are from the sister line to mine, but had gold partridge welsummer introduced. As a result; this one has red/yellow in its ground colour. Lovely...
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    Silkie cockerels for sale England

    I have some funky silkie cockerels which I cannot keep. Just before treading or crowing age. I’d like some payment/trade to make up for the price or rearing them, but don’t intend to charge high prices as they are not 100/100 show quality. All are bred from a white cockerel and paint hen, both...
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    Silkie sexing 🥲

    I kind of thought I’d never need to post another sexing thread again. But wait - silkies. After getting a new cock I hatched four. All are different colours, an odd surprise since I crossed a white to paint hens! I’m gonna post each one on a message. All 12ish weeks Thanks
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    Silver Duckwing Welsummer Hatching Eggs UK

    Hi, all 7 of my silver duckwing Welsummers are laying right now and I have more eggs than I can get rid off. Here are some links to my eBay posts selling them in hope I can reach more poultry enthusiasts on this page. They are a rare variety of the popular welsummer and lay both dark eggs and...
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    Is there a UK standard for Bearded silkies?

    My first and only silkie cock (called Footloose for his sixth toe one one foot) died the other day, and I’m looking for a replacement. All my silkies are splash bearded silkies, which I thought were an accepted variety of the usual British standard. After some Googling, I can’t seem to find any...
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    How do I breed black stripes out of Welsummer Hackles?

    I can get pictures tomorrow to show, but I think the question makes sense without them. The SOP calls for minimal-none black in the shafts of Welsummer Cocks’ hackles and saddles, I have two cocks and one is better than the other when it comes to plumage, but still has faint lines in the ends of...
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    Blue Brahma Sexing

    My Brahma rooster died at Easter this year, so I quickly saved up some eggs and hatched them under my silkies. It was their first time being mothers, so only two hatched, one Brahma and another who was a leghorn welsummer cross. As they grew, they both seemed to be the same sex, male. Their...
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    Cream crested legbar without crest

    On Thursday I picked up five CCLB pullets, all definitely pullets and all pure from good stock. They are roughly 10 weeks old from the pool of them, though I didn’t actually ask how old they were. Four have crests but one has no sign of one. When should they have been grown by, and why might...
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    This is a cockerel, right?

    Hi this Leghorn Welsummer cross is seven weeks old and has a face which screams Rooster. However, it is almost fully feathered when it’s hatch mate male Brahma is not it’s saddles appear round. I can’t help but assume he’s a boy, but the feathers aren’t helping. He’s paint/white so it’s hard to...
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    Can you create your own breed?

    Producing a fair few barnyard mixes has resulted in patterns and features I’ve never seen in pure breeds. This has me wondering if I could breed these mixes to produce a new gene pool from which I can selectively breed down to a ‘breed’ which breeds true. Is this viable, and when do I cross the...
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    Which Welsummer Cockerel should I keep?

    My silver duckwing welsummer pullets are reaching point of lay, so I need to decide which cockerel I will keep for this year’s breeding. Two are poor quality, their facial features not developing very fast, so it’s a choice between my other two. These two are coming along well, treading the...
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    Thoughts on this Brahma?

    Blue, my Brahma roo has proven five times now that he is infertile. I’ve tried trimming their butt fluff, ensuring the best diet, and I’ve tried to hatch eggs with hens, two incubators and at all points of the year. Firing blanks every time. The eggs are fertilised, but never has a single one...
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    Paint or splash silkies?

    I have a quartet of silkies I bought a while ago, sold with two blue cockerels as well. I’ve become aware of the paint variety, and wondered if you could tell the difference, I’ve done a bit of research but can’t find a definite answer. Since they were sold with blues, I’m assuming they are...
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    What’s happened to my hen?

    This motioning, I found my welsummer hen sat in the corner of the pen and thought nothing of it. After I fed them, I noticed she hadn’t moved to eat. I then realised that her head had been stripped of feathers and she was surrounded by feathers. I picked her up, and moved her, and when I put...
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    Fowl pox?

    My Welsummer rooster has developed some dark marks on one side of his comb. It doesn’t seem to be getting worse but isn’t going away either. No other of my chickens have it. Just want to make sure it isn’t fowl pox. Sorry for the bad photo he’s the most terrified rooster even, we won’t let me...
  18. BlueTheBrahma

    Can I show French/American standard Marans in the UK?

    I have recently hatched some French black copper marans. I originally thought that clean legged marans were defects, so chose to get the best French, feathered shanked marans I could find at the time. But I live in the UK, and it turns out the UK standard does not like feathered legs. Does...
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    Marans chick with brown wing bay.

    I had never hatched out Black copper marans chicks before, but have been interested in the breed for over a year now, so decided to buy some hatching eggs. They are now currently almost three weeks old, and I have noticed that one of them (probably cockerel due to a lack of tail and pin...
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    Is my marans hen worth breeding?

    I currently have 12 black copper marans eggs in the incubator, my first time hatching the breed I’ve had my eyes on since I started chicken keeping. I plan to breed my marans to improve them over generations since they are are bought from eBay rather than specialised breeders. The photos of them...
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