Black Copper Marans discussion thread

[Spartan22]

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She seems to be very a nice looking black Copper Marans, how many do you have?

 

[Miriah132]

i am not a breeder but have seen many. she is lovely! and i thought they were good pics!

Thank you!

 

[Miriah132]

She seems to be very a nice looking black Copper Marans, how many do you have?

Thank you! As of right now I just have two black copper, the pullet pictured and a cockerel. I also have a splash copper cockerel. I like my bcm cockerel but his coloring just hasn’t filled in yet, I’m hoping it does!

 

[Spartan22]

Thank you! As of right now I just have two black copper, the pullet pictured and a cockerel. I also have a splash copper cockerel. I like my bcm cockerel but his coloring just hasn’t filled in yet, I’m hoping it does!

Nice, Black Copper Marans are one of my favorite chickens, I got 11 layers, age 1 to 3 yrs old and a year old rooster. This year I just hatch a few batches, ages 1 wk old to 4 month olds (Rooster), weird thing about hatching you get more roos the layers sometimes.

 

[juliejohnson805]

Rusty’s hackles have the golden halo coloring towards the bottom. Does this mean he is a Wheaton mix or just bad genetics for BCM?

 

[WVduckchick]

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Rusty’s hackles have the golden halo coloring towards the bottom. Does this mean he is a Wheaton mix or just bad genetics for BCM?

I hoped someone else would answer, but I’m under the impression that it’s genetic. Nothing to do with wheaten genes.

 

[WVduckchick]

I’m super happy with my cockerel.

 

[Miriah132]

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Rusty’s hackles have the golden halo coloring towards the bottom. Does this mean he is a Wheaton mix or just bad genetics for BCM?

It’s just bad Copper genes. You’ll have to selectively cull the offspring if you want to work up to nice copper coloring.

 

[Chickenbrainiac]

My black copper marans do well with my rhode Islands red. The youngsters can prove to be a meanie though

 

[Sylvester017]

Marans can lay some beautiful eggs but the one we had at 7-lbs was a bully and the only one who could put her in her place and not take guff from her was our 4.5-lb White Leghorn! The Marans just needed to be in a flock of equals so we re-homed her into a friend's layer flock where there were too many other assertive layer breeds keeping her bullying in check. I don't mind hens establishing a pecking order but if it gets to the point of disrupting our peaceful backyard flock, a bully needs to be handled in whatever way works.