Black Copper Marans discussion thread

[Blarneyeggs]

if chicks are a month old with yellow legs that chick and all of its siblings are out of here....never to be breed in my pens. yellow legs is recessive so it takes 2 copies to express so if you have one chick with yellow legs likely they ALL carry the genes for yellow legs.

Good to know, Donna. She hasn't started laying, so we can sell her now with no damage done.

 

[GAIL328]

I am new to raising chickens and got my first egg yesterday! It is from one of my Black Copper Marans. She laid another today so we are on the way to having lots of fresh eggs.

Beautiful egg....my bcm just started laying too.

 

[Alaskan]

Beautiful egg....my bcm just started laying too.

Pictures of the cute new eggs?

My brand new BCM are not as SQ as I had hoped.

My rooster still has very light eyes, quite disappointing, his eyes at VERY light.

Of the three pullets that I hatched, all have darker eyes than the rooster, and they might turn out more SQ.

But, they are what I am stuck with, so we shall see.

 

[DMRippy]

show quality birds do not produce 100% show quality or even breeder bird. most show breeders don't breed show birds to show birds. you have to breed birds that compliment each other. even when buying from show lines you have to cull just as hard.

 

[Alaskan]

show quality birds do not produce 100% show quality or even breeder bird. most show breeders don't breed show birds to show birds. you have to breed birds that compliment each other. even when buying from show lines you have to cull just as hard.

I completely agree....but the problem is that I had incubator woes, (sad sad) so out of 22 eggs from some birds that were nice SQ stock, I only had 4 hatch (super cool though that I got 1 male and 3 female). I also got one of the two olive eggs to hatch, but it hatched male (sad, but since a got a perfect ratio from the pure bred eggs, I can't complain).

So......what I have is what I have.

I will have to decide, after my four get a little older, if I even want to keep that pure bred male, or simply eat him, and get more eggs (put into a much better incubator, you better believe it!) next year.

The one pure bred male, does have a very good personality.........but the more I stare at him, and the more his eyes stay so light....the more I think I shouldn't breed him at all, especially since I can get more pure bred eggs next year, local.

I can't tell yet how his feather color will be. He hatched out I think mid June. They are still so young!

I don't know, I might just use them for nice dark eggs, and not breed at all.

 

[TheWineMaker]

Recently got some BCM pullets and 2 of them somewhere around 6wks old. Here is one of them anyone think it mite be a cockerel? Its very outgoing and just a bit bigger than the other.

 

[Maggiesdad]

That's a cockerel.

 

[TheWineMaker]

Yea thats what I think. It acts completely different than the pullets.

 

[muddyfeathers]

I'm still trying to play match maker with my marans and trying to keep a biosecure area keeps me from having any other eyes to help me out so I need some forum friends Marans are new to me and I acquired stock from several sources so that I don't need to stress over quarantining any new blood in the future and of course so I have more birds to choose from
I have many roos to pick apart so any critique is welcomed no matter how petty. They are all banded different colors so that I can differentiate...
!!! Caution !!! I am not a professional photographer!

This is purple..he's almost 6 months old and seems to be on track to be a monster



Goofy stance...I think he was crowing before this pic

 

[muddyfeathers]

EDITED...

This is brown and I really like his friendly personality. He's around 5mths old and is one of my better birds...I hope