Black Copper Marans discussion thread

[FVRM]

I hatched this BCM pullet from a supposedly pure BCM egg. Can you get birds like this from good lines, or is she mixed?

BCMs are still a work in progress even the "good" lines have constant faults in them. If we go by the american standard for this breed, this BCM lacks feathered shanks and just for that would be considered "poor" quality. I don't think she's mixed maybe she just had major red leakage.

 

[DMRippy]

I have seen that patterning on MANY Olive Eggers I have hatched.... never seen it on any Marans of the over 500 I have hatched.... My guess is the comb is a modified pea comb..... Olive Egger.

 

[Zanna]

I have seen that patterning on MANY Olive Eggers I have hatched.... never seen it on any Marans of the over 500 I have hatched.... My guess is the comb is a modified pea comb..... Olive Egger.

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I just have to ask..... Euarto Gullible, are you messing with us??

 

[FVRM]

I had one like this but not as much leakage. the one on the left

 

[FVRM]

I also had some with super stumpy combs. Almost no comb at all. That blue one on the right would be one of them.

 

[DMRippy]

I had one like this but not as much leakage. the one on the left

Very hard to tell Olive Eggers and Marans apart at hatch. Someone could have used one in their marans breeding. I have hatched LITERALLY HUNDREDS if not close to a 1,000 and NEVER had a Marans that looked like that.

 

[One Chick Two]

I had one like this but not as much leakage. the one on the left

From a distance, she doesn't seem too mossy, but up close, there is mossy leakage patterns all over her wings plus random speckles. It's too bad...she's built like a solid brick. lol

 

[Runawaylobster]

I have seen that patterning on MANY Olive Eggers I have hatched.... never seen it on any Marans of the over 500 I have hatched.... My guess is the comb is a modified pea comb..... Olive Egger.

ditto

 

[Rocky Rhodes]

I have a Wheaten Maran rooster and last spring I bred him to Black Copper hens. The offspring ranged from solid black to black copper to wheaten. These are a couple of the hens that were produced by that cross.


My question is can the hen in the first photo be honestly called a Black Copper Maran?

 

[FVRM]

My question is can the hen in the first photo be honestly called a Black Copper Maran?

Not honestly. it looks like a black copper but when you try to hatch chicks they will have random wheatens show up.