Black Copper Marans discussion thread

[DMRippy]

Quote: The one in front of the hen looks like a pullet in that pic.

 

[TammyTX]

The one in front of the hen looks like a pullet in that pic.

Yeah, sometimes I think it looks like a pullet, too. Mixed breeds...and it has muddy yellow legs too but that's from the Welly in the daddy. We'll see. For the moment, I breed for egg color because my customers love their pretty eggs.

 

[FVRM]

Thanks! I hatched out 4 of her babies, I believe two are roos, but I'm hoping the pullet chick will give large dark eggs...the sire is a welly/easter egg mix. This is two of them with their Australorp brood mama. They are not quite 7 wks. The one not shown is a definite roo and has a copper neck, so I assume the one on the left may be a slower maturing roo and the one on the left a pullet. Time will tell!

If their father is an Easter egger they will probably lay olive/greenish eggs

 

[TammyTX]

If their father is an Easter egger they will probably lay olive/greenish eggs

Their father is a Welsummer/EE mix (no pea comb) but I would love some olive eggs, that's why I also have EE babies in that hatch.

 

[ellymayRans]

Here are my recent hatches from my flock. I have one as I've seen here before with the copper/rust type place on the face. Seems with all of the white it's going to have too much copper but only time will tell. I only hatched 5, one died at day 2 and I gave one to my aunt who's recently started a flock and that leaves me with these 3.
I have a bator full at the moment too!
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This is my lone GCM hatch for fun. GCM hen crossed with my BCM roo. Single barring gene guessing boy from what I've read. O and managed to get some feathering on the shanks which my current GCM doesn't have.

 

[humboldtgrrl]

Here are my recent hatches from my flock. I have one as I've seen here before with the copper/rust type place on the face. Seems with all of the white it's going to have too much copper but only time will tell. I only hatched 5, one died at day 2 and I gave one to my aunt who's recently started a flock and that leaves me with these 3.
I have a bator full at the moment too!
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This is my lone GCM hatch for fun. GCM hen crossed with my BCM roo. Single barring gene guessing boy from what I've read. O and managed to get some feathering on the shanks which my current GCM doesn't have.

Darling little babies!

 

[ellymayRans]

Darling little babies!

Thanks!

 

[One Chick Two]

At last… we've finished breeding pens, and have finally put in RIR with the BCM to test batch for Wheaten.

Others in this thread have suggested about 20 chicklets to be about the right amount for testing- would 10 each from two RIR hens suffice, or does all of the chicks need to be sourced from a single hen for some reason? Do BCM hens need to be tested separately for Wheaten as well?

Hopefully, this testing will go more smoothly than everything else has to this point. lol We really are lovin' the BCM breed, there's so much to admire! But… we've really had our share of issues and challenges to even to begin.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I'm just curious, what are you looking for in that cross that will weed out the wheaten?

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

At last… we've finished breeding pens, and have finally put in RIR with the BCM to test batch for Wheaten.

I must have missed those posts. I have 3 HRIR hens to improve my Rhodebars and suspect wheaten in my BCM. Please expand or reference post # for this? Thanks!