Black Copper Marans discussion thread

[desertmarcy]

Maybe I will breed them not for SOP but to get more laying hens. Might as well do something with them. Cockerels can go in freezer.

Usually it is the other way around, that the pullets lack coloration, not the cockerels. Getting birds "accidentally", because someone included them in an order but you did not order them, is a dangerous way to end up with more birds/breeds than your infrastructure can handle

Just a thought! That said, if they are otherwise nice birds and decent type for Black Copper Marans, you could hatch a few and see how they turn out and how you like them. The black cockerel will be genetically black copper even though he is not expressing the color. I'd also look at them really closely to make sure they are pure Marans and not a mixed breed, like olive egger. There have been so many posts of people getting mixed breed Marans mutts it seems. Some of those crosses can look like pure Marans but you'd know for sure once you hatch from them by the looks of the offspring.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Ill try to take a pic of them and let u decide. Never had Marans before.

 

[DMRippy]

Got a pair of BCM'S in my order of buffs awhile back. They were short on the buffs. Well just so happened one is a pullet and the other a cockerel. But the problem is the hen has good coloring were the cockerel is all black. Maybe a few copper hackel feathers. My question is can I either breed the copper into a cockerel or can I breed the copper out altogether and have black marans?

It would be nearly impossible to remove the red. Silver is sex linked and could be removed but red is not.

 

[desertmarcy]

Ill try to take a pic of them and let u decide. Never had Marans before.

Get a close up of the combs also. What the comb looks like will often (not always) tell if it's an olive egger mix.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Here 3 pics of the pullet and 3 of the cockerel. They will be 5 months old on the 9th.

 

[desertmarcy]

Here 3 pics of the pullet and 3 of the cockerel. They will be 5 months old on the 9th.

Good photos. I don't see any red flags that tells me these are anything but Black Copper Marans. Maybe others will chime in.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

I'm just going to breed them and see what I get. If not SOP I wont sell them just use the hens as layers. Cockerels as freezer birds.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Usually it is the other way around, that the pullets lack coloration, not the cockerels. Getting birds "accidentally", because someone included them in an order but you did not order them, is a dangerous way to end up with more birds/breeds than your infrastructure can handle

Just a thought! That said, if they are otherwise nice birds and decent type for Black Copper Marans, you could hatch a few and see how they turn out and how you like them. The black cockerel will be genetically black copper even though he is not expressing the color. I'd also look at them really closely to make sure they are pure Marans and not a mixed breed, like olive egger. There have been so many posts of people getting mixed breed Marans mutts it seems. Some of those crosses can look like pure Marans but you'd know for sure once you hatch from them by the looks of the offspring.

Space is not a problem. I can put more fence and housing if need be.

 

[KeriT]

what do you guys think??

 

[moms3cuties]

Here is one of my supposed craigslist BCM roo, He has a blue or something bleeding through his back.


I don't think he is a true BCM. Anyone else??