Black Copper Marans discussion thread

[geebs]

I can't wait for new birdies!!!! I have some cool new hatchies cooking... Secret little hatchies. you will have to watch this thread in the fall to see what I am cooking up now...

 

[sewandgrow]

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I think we are not looking to eliminate the beetle sheen (aka...luster) completely, (speaking in terms of the male here) but, rather keep it more restricted to certain areas of the body..i,e.., the tail: sickles and coverts with glints of luster and the wing: secondaries, where the exposed portion shows a lusterous black wing triangle and also the wing coverts: lustrous black forming a black armband. Thus, trying to keep it to very little or none in the breast and that should not advance, as I understand it, to any lower regions of the birds body past the curve of the breast? (I need help on this, this is where I become unclear.) I assume this and worded this after the proposed BCM Color Draft.

The proposed Standard does not mention any luster on the female, thus my understanding is that they should not have any.

eta: YES the greenish sheen is stunning in the sun light isn't it?

Oh gosh Kim, I am so confused. I think some of my new gals have lots of green (which I think beautiful, by the way) but they have alot of color in their hackles too. I have no birds that present all black. Half of my summer (July 2010) hatch pullets were mossy & exiled to the layer pen to wait & see what their eggs look like. The ones I kept in the open pen ( 5 of them left) with my rooster have black chests, colored hackles & at least some of them have beetle green in the black hard feathers. I will take yet another harder look at them today. As I have said many times my "original goal" was dark eggs & I have just gotten swept up into all this other stuff. My first 2 eggs from these pullets are an improvement from the original trio I started with so I am hopeful. What an education............. Does everyone else have friends & family that eyes glaze over when you talk "chicken"??? LOL
Karen in California

 

[geebs]

Uh... glaze over??? no... they just walk away rolling eyes... Glaze over would be an upgrade... Newnan is less than 3 weeks away... Don't they get it!!!!!!?????????...

(fools!!!)

 

[sewandgrow]

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The breeder I bought my original 6 chicks from told me that the cockerels at that age look kind of like a dinosaur. Does anyone else out there understand what she meant? You, not having anything to compare too, that might be hard to spot but I had hatched several chicks by that time & could definetely see what she meant by that. I have been reading these posts for along time now & can't wait to have new chicks to try the methods that others have explained to sex the chicks as hatchlings. There is so much to learn but what an exhilerating education when you get to apply it to your own backyard.
Karen in California

 

[sewandgrow]

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I definetely wish you lotsa luck Zanna. It sounds like you are off to a good start & have lots to choose from. Good for you. I started with much less & am not discouraged at this point. The learning has been so much fun. So nice to have you along for the ride.
Karen in California

 

[pinkchick]

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[geebs]

ya all wanna see some eggs I was gonna send???? my daughter had a small accident yesterday.... ??

Well here it is:

 

[sewandgrow]

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YAAAAAA WAAAAAAAAA WHOOOOOOIE!!!!!!!!

Congratulations on the eggs and the Wheatens Karen!!! Many good hatching vibes to you!

Thank you Kim..............I am so excited. My now second egg is still small but is darker than the first.!!!!!!

 

[Illia]

Wow. If any member of my family ended up "accidentally" cooking the eggs I was planning to ship off, I would be VERY upset!

I have mine at huge risk with the rest of our eating eggs, but the carton has NO TOUCH and DO NOT EAT written all over it.

 

[sewandgrow]

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How funny......I was collecting a flat of eggs to go in the incubator on the counter in the breaskfast nook which nobody uses & went to add to them & they were gone..........................!!!! I had a moment of panic think my kids that live out back had come over for eggs & took them to eat. Then I remembered that I had moved them out to the front porch where the incubator is set up......LOL This getting older is sometimes for the birds.....LOL