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Quote: Tim, At this time will have to decline from naming the problems with the Approved Standard, There were lots of major problems that were ignored to make the breed look better for approval. The SOP covers most of the Faults and DQs even though they were accidently left out of the...

Quote: flgardengirl, the 10 % for breast color was changed before the Standard was approved by MCCUSA, it only says a few copper spots allowed.

Quote: Tim, The Mahogany is a natural occurring color in the BC. The BC is not a Brown Red like in the SOP, This is the reason it went into the SOP as a BC and not brown red. The Mahogany males I have used this year are out of the BC. The white Hackle undercolor is just in the hackle, the...

Tim, Glad you made over to this thread. The female BC Marans is much easier to breed to the SOP than the Male. The jury is still out on whether the Male can be bred to the SOP as far as I am concerned. One thing you have to ad into the BC marans is the Mahogany Gene. The white in the Tail and...

Sparklee, The white feathers in the BC Marans are all genetic, as are most of the other major faults. When I mate up breeding pens I am not just trying to correct just one fault, will try and correct as many as possible at the same time. The white feathers I have been waiting until about 4-5...

The brown breasted male I used this spring was done because I had read from some of the Marans people on other sites that was the way to go forward. I even test mated this male and the chicks looked decent and there was about 20 chicks, well was not near enough in the test batch. This male was...

Sparklee, We have a lot of the same beliefs on breeding the BC Marans, With the Marans I am working with at present you can not use the light colored leg male fowl in breeding. I think I have finally bred the white in wing and tail out of my fowl. I have no white in the young fowl out of my...

I breed no Mossy female and they are culled soon as I see them. I breed no more brown breasted males after this spring. I tried one over some of the dark hens and culled all of them, when about one month old. I breed a large amount of BC and not just talk about what the outcome should be. Since...

Quote: No, it's likely not accurate. Changing the melanizers in the chicken genetics calculator isn't going to get it to suddenly change the E locus. If a bird is ER/ER (Birchen) and is mated to same, the progeny will also be ER/ER. However, there has been some conjecture that there is a...