Black Copper Marans discussion thread

[Runawaylobster]

Some of mine hatch without feathered shanks... I let a few of them grow and they all matured with feathered shanks. It was really weird.

Hey that is good to know, i have a mixed bunch with the feathering but all of them came from same hatch hopefully they will all get some feathers
in the end

 

[salt and pepper]

Is there any way to sex day old black copper marans? does wing sexing work on them? or do the male chicks have more white? thank you!

 

[Zanna]

Is there any way to sex day old black copper marans? does wing sexing work on them? or do the male chicks have more white? thank you!

I don't think there is any way. The male chicks do not necessarily have more white. It has been discussed that the chicks with more white grow up to have more correct colouring.

 

[pinkchick]

I have a trio of black copper marans that I hatched. All 3 have have feathers in the feet...but in every hatch I have I end up with a few chicks with no feathers in the feet. Why is that? Is that something fixable?


Thanks for any information you can give me...

 

Good Morning!


Clean legged chicks being produced from parent birds that have feathered shanks happens. There are 3 genes involved with shank feathering, 2 of them are dominant and 1 is recessive, when you match up two birds that both carry 1 copy of the recessive gene for clean legs and mate them....the recessive genes of the parents become evident and chicks with clean legs are produced.

Clean legs can be corrected by test mating and not breeding 2 birds that carry the recessive gene together.

 

[pinkchick]

sorry double post

 

[gilavina]

how's the hatch going Kim?

 

[pinkchick]

how's the hatch going Kim?

 

I have 2 pips.....one in my Blue Copper egg and one in Ravens eggs. I believe that one of the five solid splash eggs has quit...it was the one with the worst air cell and it looks to have collapsed and it is no longer moving. The other 4 are all still alive and moving....I can see that they have internally pipped. They are going on almost 2 days late. My Blue Copper egg pipped yesterday morning and is just now getting busy to get out, the solid splash egg that has pipped pipped sometime during the night.

 

[gilavina]

I have 2 pips.....one in my Blue Copper egg and one in Ravens eggs. I believe that one of the five solid splash eggs has quit...it was the one with the worst air cell and it looks to have collapsed and it is no longer moving. The other 4 are all still alive and moving....I can see that they have internally pipped. They are going on almost 2 days late. My Blue Copper egg pipped yesterday morning and is just now getting busy to get out, the solid splash egg that has pipped pipped sometime during the night.

hopefully those that are still working on it, will make quick work of it.

 

[mabhera]

Good Morning!


Clean legged chicks being produced from parent birds that have feathered shanks happens. There are 3 genes involved with shank feathering, 2 of them are dominant and 1 is recessive, when you match up two birds that both carry 1 copy of the recessive gene for clean legs and mate them....the recessive genes of the parents become evident and chicks with clean legs are produced.

Clean legs can be corrected by test mating and not breeding 2 birds that carry the recessive gene together.

Thanks a lot for your answer. I'll start marking the eggs from each hen to see which one is the culprit. The male also is then. But I'll get rid of the hen that also has the recessive gene then i will not hatch them anymore. Until i get a better breeding rooster I'll keep the one I have.

 

[mabhera]

Good Morning!


Clean legged chicks being produced from parent birds that have feathered shanks happens. There are 3 genes involved with shank feathering, 2 of them are dominant and 1 is recessive, when you match up two birds that both carry 1 copy of the recessive gene for clean legs and mate them....the recessive genes of the parents become evident and chicks with clean legs are produced.

Clean legs can be corrected by test mating and not breeding 2 birds that carry the recessive gene together.

First I'll test the breeders I have. But seeing that I have only a trio (rooster and 2 hens) my options are limited. I dont want to close my gene pool smaller than it already is. So..Well, maybe if I breed and keep the chicks with more feathers in the legs I'll could eventually get rid of this recessive gene. ... Is easy to get rid of this problem?
And as soon as I find more BCM with the correct attributes I'll add or replace my flock.