Black Copper Marans discussion thread

[Sylvester017]

Regularly $99 each....

I just can't imagine!

Whenever I want a really good laugh... I go to their site.

That's why you wait for GFF sales - you'll notice they dropped the BCMs to $19 each. As for their normal prices they take a lot of time and money to import rare breeds so I don't discredit them for their charges even though I can't afford their regular prices.

The only reason I don't use GFF is because I can't use a minimum bunch of unsexed chicks - no space, no brooder, and I have no outlet for unwanted birds. Last month it took me 2 weeks to find a home for a 4-month-old Blue Breda Cockerel shipped to me by mistake! We don't re-home rare chickens to be dinner table meals - that's just us.

 

[saltandpepper2]

That's why you wait for GFF sales - you'll notice they dropped the BCMs to $19 each.  As for their normal prices they take a lot of time and money to import rare breeds so I don't discredit them for their charges even though I can't afford their regular prices. 

The only reason I don't use GFF is because I can't use a minimum bunch of unsexed chicks - no space, no brooder, and I have no outlet for unwanted birds.  Last month it took me 2 weeks to find a home for a 4-month-old Blue Breda Cockerel shipped to me by mistake!  We don't re-home rare chickens to be dinner table meals - that's just us.

That's my thing, I would totally buy the chicks when they're on sale, but I just can't afford to have a bunch of unwanted cockerels of such valuable breeds. Honestly, all my unwanted boys usually go to auction, and I would have a hard time selling a 20+ dollar chick for maybe 5 bucks.

 

[Sylvester017]

The first time I heard of an Ayam Cemani, I googled it. It directed me to their site, where straight run day olds were $199

You're lucky you saw $199. When I went to see Ayam Cemani or Swedish BLACK hens on GFF they were selling for $5000 per breeding pair. I believe the black chicks are down to $99 each now but everything is sold straight run.

 

[Sylvester017]

Greenfire sent me email this morning on their pre-July holiday sale:

BREED STANDARD PRICE PRESALE PRICE SAVINGS
White Pavlovskaya $99 ea $29 ea $70 ea
Barbezieux $99 ea $29 ea $70 ea
Lavender Wyandotte $99 ea $29 ea $70 ea
Orust $99 ea $29 ea $70 ea
Twentse $59 ea $19 ea $40 ea
Niederrheiner $59 ea $19 ea $40 ea
Black Copper Marans $59 ea $19 ea $40 ea
Bielefelder Pullet $29 ea $19 ea $10 ea
Cream Legbar Pullet $29 ea $19 ea $10 ea
Swedish Flower Hens $29 ea $19 ea $10 ea
Sulmtaler $29 ea $19 ea $10 ea​

FYI - Besides the pre-July sales notice above, I just got informed that GFF has East Frisian Gulls they're expanding into their own Silvers, imported a new line of Ayam Cemani and have 4 different bloodlines, and improved their order-taking technology program.

 

[snowbird]

You will mostly see the White in the Males. Don

 

[saltandpepper2]

You will mostly see the White in the Males. Don

ah, ok, thanks.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Whenever I want a really good laugh... I go to their site.

 

[NestingHillsSC]

You will mostly see the White in the Males. Don

Can you not breed the white out? I don't see why you can't. I read on chicken genetics but just confuses this country boys mind.

 

[snowbird]

Will just throw a question back at you, if you breed the white feathered BC Marans how do you expect to breed it out of you birds ? I am a country boy from Tenn. myself and something just says it is not possible. Don

 

[NestingHillsSC]

Will just throw a question back at you, if you breed the white feathered BC Marans how do you expect to breed it out of you birds ? I am a country boy from Tenn. myself and something just says it is not possible. Don

Because not all will have the white. Then you start to use only the ones with no white. I mean take for instance most of my kin are redheads because of the Irish. But ever once in awhile one would have black hair. And then there kids start having black hair. Not all but some. Then if they keep hooking up with somebody with black hair more and more of there kids are going to have black hair. I understand the gene of red will always be there in the back ground and one kid may get red hair but in most part all will have black hair.

I mean all these birds we raise and breed are cross breeds to start with. We have all breed them to get a breed we want. Right. So again why cant you breed the white out.

Its all evolution. Not nature evolution but human induced evolution.