Black Copper Marans discussion thread

[FireTigeris]

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Sorry

for the roos. .. . . I wish I could get hold of some of that Broody water that Flgardengirl has going on down the street from me!

VC - - - We are having Soup Pot for dinner tomorrow night. That is what we named the last roo that was nasty.
It would try to bite me EVERY time I would walk by.

I have some reliable intermediate sized silkie*GLW brooders ... I'd trade for some girl marans?

 

[flgardengirl]

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Lisa, since you are collecting roos I have several more that would be great additions to your collection. Can I send some EE boys too?

Bravo, I am running out of bachelor pads as it is

I still hatching eggs, so I am sure I will have more boys before it is all over with . . . .

I am afraid there is "NO ROOM LEFT AT THE CHICKEN INN" . . . . .

" NO VACANCY at the ROOSTER HOTEL " . . .. . . .

I think I have more roosters than hens right now! Something ain't right with the chicken MATH there - - ya'll know what I am saying ? ? ?

Exactly how many bachelor pads do you have? LOL or.....do you have a bunch of unusual roo sleeping arrangements like we do? I swear I play musical roosters at night. Okay this one named Storm, will not stay with his group during the day BUT at night he wants to sleep with them. Then we have the buff orps who don't have a coop and we are planning to process so they go into carriers at night and have a run during the day. Then there is my lame free ranging blue copper roo that is so sweet I can't get rid of him soooo he goes into the shed at night..can't put him with the other roos because they will kick his a**. I have a lavender orp that I got from someone else who doesn't have his breeding coop set up yet and can't go with the other roos soooo he goes into another carrier at night and gets to free range during the day etc. I have 2 other official bachelor pads too.

Okay fess up anyone else play muscial roos? I ought to just cull a buttload of them and be done with it LOL!

 

[math ace]

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Since I can only hatch roos . .. . I guess we won't be trading anytime soon!

 

[math ace]

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I have my main coop and run for the flock I got at Christmas 2009.
I have a brooder I built for a broody or for a sick chicken. It is holding our new Delaware roo who is still in his 30 day quarantine period.
I have another pen with a dog house in it for a coop. The 4 dellie hens and roo are in it.
There is another pen sitting totally empty right now. It will be the speckled sussex pen once we get around to the coop for it.
There is another pen that has been divided into two for bachelor pads. . . .One is occupied and the other will be for the Delaware roo once he gets out of quarantine.


THEN there are the brooders - - THREE of them. . . .

The smallest is 4 x4 and hold 8 chickens ( 3 cockerels and 5 pullets) at night. I have a temp fenced in area around them for the day time.
The next biggest is 4 x 6 and has 16 ONE month old speckled sussex chicks in it. They are in it at night and out in a temp playground during the day.
The largest brooder is around 4 x 8. It will get all the chicks I vaccinated today . . . .
There are 11 Speckled sussex and 11 marans going in that brooder. It will have a temp playground around it too.


I've got a hatch going now and one more after that. . . . Then I am taking a break until this fall. By then the culling should thin out a lot of the occupants at my chicken hotels.

In the mean time. .. . We have to get three coops finished. Everyone needs to move from brooders to coops. .. .



Oh I forgot to mention - - - We have a large dog carrier that acts as a medical hospital for injured birds.
There is a small kiddie pool in the house for the 1 - 2 week old chicks and a larger kiddie swimming pool in the garage for older chicks 2 - 4 weeks old.
AND YES -- both places are occupied right now!

 

[VillageChicken]

Hey Geebs - I didn't mean to start a debate, we were just talking shades of gray with the point being what is the difference between pale and dark slate. None of our roosters should have plain slate legs, so we don't see it often. Hens will have the dark slate, roosters the pale, but we probably have some birds out there with the in-between too.

That white rooster was id/id on recessive white - giving nice clean slate legs - with the bluish cast. I wasn't saying that BC should have that color, just that it's the midpoint.
Like I said in the first post to Math - I was just being nit-picky to begin with - I know most of us have bigger things to deal with than shank shade.

 

[geebs]

Leg color is ultimately important in balancing the amount of black in BC's

Slate is what the SOP says... yep... But to me the bird legs look blue... maybe someone else sees orange... since the bird is not BLACK COPPER it's color balance really doesn't apply... It got lost on me entirely. NO WORRIES

 

[geebs]

When I see slate it usually has variances.. The WHITE bird appears to have a fairly solid color which is a common fault among some of the white birds here.

 

[Batty about Banties]

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Here they are!!!

Shelly.....

Jane Doe (so far)

 

[geebs]

Shelly looks a wee bit masculine to me... but CONGRATULATIONS on your new babies...

Wow... Jane Doe.. what a cutie... Congrats and keep track of em as they grow.... Fun fun fun.... Thanks for posting the pix.... (cybersqueezing)

 

[Batty about Banties]

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Shelly may turn into a Sebastian but she (

) got stuck on her shell when hatching.