Black Copper Marans discussion thread

[heirloomorps]

What a wonderful "early" Christmas gift!

It was so exciting!

 

[math ace]

So I am new member today! I've read and browsed for over a year now since getting my first small flock of 6.
I expanded this year to the BCMs and my very first roo! However, his comb is getting all "wavy" at approx 6 wks now.
Will this straighten out? Is it lack of nutrition? I read for so long about the breed but don't anticipate showing; just love of chickens and grown to desire the breed...so any thoughts? Opinions?

The wave is called a twist. It most likely will not get better. It is likely to get more pronouced as the comb grows.
It is NOT nutrition related. It is 100% genetics. Either mommy or daddy had a twist and passed it on to son

 

[macgeoghagen]

Quote: In my flock, chicks with no white feathers have turned out to be solid black hens. Most of my hens are colored that way.

 

[Keara]

They would be sexlinks if you use a BR hen and BCM Roo. The roos will all have spots at hatch. ANY spot even tiny ones are roos.

Perfect info,
thanks!

 

[RedBugPoultry]

They would be sexlinks if you use a BR hen and BCM Roo. The roos will all have spots at hatch. ANY spot even tiny ones are roos.

If you did the opposite would you get a spot on the hens? Meaning if you put a barred(or dominique) roo over a BCM hen would you get a sexlink where you would get the spot/barring on the hen?

 

[Arielle]

Quote: Unfortuanatley no. . . the rooster carries two genes and one will go to the female offsping ,and one to the males. So the barred birds must be the mother which carries only 1 copy of the gene, not the father. Donna, maybe you can explain it better.

I have a group of barred hens in with my black ameraucana roosters to make sexlink chicks. THis f1 generation will lay light olive green egg.

 

[DMRippy]

Quote:
They are not Sex linked with that cross. What make the sex link comes from the hen. The barring is only carried on the MALE gene that she carries one copy of. She will pass that barring off to ALL the roos (with chickens the hen determines the gender of the chicks). With a Barred roo if he carries 2 copies (as he should) he will pass the barring to 100% of his chicks. The pullet will have one copy and so will the roos but roos SHOULD have 2 copies of the barring and the roos from that cross will not breed true.

Does that make sense??????

 

[marlo1968]

I have two Blue Copper Marens Roos, Betsy and Blue (Betsy obviously was originally thought to be a her, and now we know its a him)


This is Blue, he only has copper at the neck, with just a touch on the shoulder/wing top


Both are still young, Blue here again

Betsy has copper down his neck and chest with some on the tops of his wings too.

 

[RedBugPoultry]

Unfortuanatley no. . . the rooster carries two genes and one will go to the female offsping ,and one to the males. So the barred birds must be the mother which carries only 1 copy of the gene, not the father. Donna, maybe you can explain it better.

I have a group of barred hens in with my black ameraucana roosters to make sexlink chicks. THis f1 generation will lay light olive green egg.

No, this makes since now that you say it. I too have an Ameraucana rooster that is penned by himself--a Wheaten. I have two young Dominique hens/pullets running loose that I have not put in a breeding pen as of yet. If I put them in with him I should get some sexlinked chicks am I correct? Although the Dominique hens/pullets are running with a very nice, young, BCM cockerel right now so that might be a better combo for some sexlinks.... Hummm, just thinking out loud....

 

[RedBugPoultry]

They are not Sex linked with that cross. What make the sex link comes from the hen. The barring is only carried on the MALE gene that she carries one copy of. She will pass that barring off to ALL the roos (with chickens the hen determines the gender of the chicks). With a Barred roo if he carries 2 copies (as he should) he will pass the barring to 100% of his chicks. The pullet will have one copy and so will the roos but roos SHOULD have 2 copies of the barring and the roos from that cross will not breed true.

Does that make sense??????

Got it! And thank you guys for your time explaining it. I actually knew the gene part of the male/female birds but had never thought through how the sexlinks were developed. Thank you again and it sound like something fun to play with as I know those two Dominique pullets, running with that young BCM cockerel, are laying now.