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  1. DMRippy

    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    Part of the reason you are getting light eggs is she lays everyday. Dark egg layers take longer to coat the egg so they might lay once every 2 to 3 days. No having said that I have a pullet laying a pretty dark egg and she is layi g almost everyday. I would not expect a dark egg layer to lay...
  2. DMRippy

    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    Why are you so sure that is a BCM? Have you got a better picture of that comb? My first thought was he was an Olive Egger, a cross of a marans and ameraucana. That comb looks like a buttercup comb, I think that is what it is called.
  3. DMRippy

    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    Not a marans. He is even red on his undercoat.
  4. DMRippy

    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    I have never had that but I do cut the webbing for marking my chicks. they don't bleed much. just depends on how much you cut. I use corn starch to stop bleeding if it gets too bad but I hatch over 100 every hatch almost and MAY use the corn starch about once a month.... if that. I just use...
  5. DMRippy

    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    How dark is that egg? My egg color took a huge leap this year I am very excited about that. I have a splash that is laying the darkest egg I have ever seen from my marans.
  6. DMRippy

    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    Chicks with middle toe fuzz will often lose that fuzz and it will never show again. Don't cull that too early...... might be a big mistake. Like @desertmarcy said type is more important. Often you can use middle toe feathers to ADD it to birds that don't have feathered legs. My cuckoo cock...
  7. DMRippy

    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

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    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

  9. DMRippy

    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    @scflock I would cull them all and start over. Every bird you got from that breeder will throw yellow skinned birds.....you so be forever culling and putting birds out that will continue to pollute the Marans that are floating around. Not worth working with.....you might get a handful of birds...
  10. DMRippy

    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

  11. DMRippy

    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    You can't create a dominate gene. There are several genes at work to make feathered legs. You just have to breed for feathered legs and you might get to were they breed true. My guess is you could always have some pop up without feathered legs.
  12. DMRippy

    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

  13. DMRippy

    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    BTW the gene is actually called Lavender, Not sure where the name Self Blue came from. A blue does not have to come from a black parent. It is just a dilution of black to make a gray color.
  14. DMRippy

    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    No they are VERY different in color once you understand Lavender. It took a few hatches for me to see the lavender vs Reg Blue. Lavender almost looks SILVER in chicks. Blue is a deeper color and will vary. Lavender is the same color ALL over no variation in the shade or feather colors...
  15. DMRippy

    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    I am pretty sure that genetically Er chicks should have white on them. I think it might have more to do with the birchen gene in them but I only know enough genetics to scare me. LOL.
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    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

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    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

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    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

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    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

  20. DMRippy

    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    I have heard it several times..." farmer so and so sells his for 5 each and will let me pick out only pullets." I also get the odd email..."why are your birds so high?". I just move on. I know my prices are fair for my birds.
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