Black Copper Marans discussion thread

[starlingdaly]

How old is he again?  I'm sure you've said I've just forgotten.  If he hasn't gone through his final molt into his adult feathers those white wing feathers may still molt out?

He's about a year and a half old.
He is currently molting though.

 

[berkeleysprings]

early cinnamon color

 

[berkeleysprings]

wheaten picks.i don't visit here much kuzz I know zero about bc and 6 years with a closed wheaten flock and little about them lol.. but its fun and I enjoy them

 

[Runawaylobster]

I just had a chick with a copper head hatch out, it's the first time i had one of these. I remember someone posting some pictures of ones like these earlier this year but i can't seem to find them. I was wondering how they grew out. I think this is a He, i have a blue copper roo over a mix of black and blue unrelated females. this is the only one like this so far but i have 2 more batches coming up (weekly staggered hatches) so now i am wondering if there will be a whole mess of them in the next week's hatch. He came out of a speckled egg.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

In my limited experience chicks that hatch out with brown heads end up wrongly colored- usually very mossy.

 

[Runawaylobster]

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Thanks!, I wish I knew which mom it was. I have narrowed it down to about three.. ! I guess i really need to do some single matings.

 

[Wynette]

I just had a chick with a copper head hatch out, it's the first time i had one of these. I remember someone posting some pictures of ones like these earlier this year but i can't seem to find them. I was wondering how they grew out. I think this is a He, i have a blue copper roo over a mix of black and blue unrelated females. this is the only one like this so far but i have 2 more batches coming up (weekly staggered hatches) so now i am wondering if there will be a whole mess of them in the next week's hatch. He came out of a speckled egg.

This looks like a blue to me. Will definitely be mossy, but it's sure a cute little tacker!

 

[Alibabe]

Hi all
I have just hatched my first BCM and one of the chicks is orange/brown. I have spoken to the seller of the eggs and they tell me that all her BCM are in a separate pen with no other chickens. Have any of you had orange chicks from BCM parents? Could this be a throwback to something in the genes or a colour mutation?

The chick is still drying off in the incubator so these are the best photo's I have at the moment. Would be interested to hear what you think.

 

[jaybobrenn]

Maybe a Wheaten?????

 

[NJchixs]

That's interesting. The few wheatons that I had where a off white/yellow color. Idk