Black Copper Marans discussion thread

[VillageChicken]

Thank you Don, for your input. That's the direction I was heading. I don't know if the stripe needs to be eliminated completely, but if minimizing it helps put color on hens, that would be a noteworthy point in choosing your rooster. The hackle stripe is much less prominent on your rooster than on many others I have seen on this forum. Please let us know if he puts color on the hens he throws. Sounds like from the chickdown you're going the right way.

It seems that most Davis line hens are lacking in hackle color. Or is it just the ones that get talked about and shown on this forum? I'd be curious to find out if Davis line roosters tend to have the wider hackle stripe (like the Wade bird at Little Peddler's site Jake) and if that may correspond to the hens with not enough hackle color.

 

[snowbird]

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Vc, in a couple of days will sort out the Chicks from this male and the two female he was with. They are banded so should not be to hard to find. Wil take some picture for you to use in comparison and we can wait and see how they feather out as we go along. Don

 

[wooch]

I have been reading this thread since the begining and trying to learn about this beautiful breed. I have tried hatching shipped eggs with some problems the first had feathers on the middle toe with 3 out of 4 being roosters, the second batch 1 hatched and now the third batch I had 6, one with a clean leg and 2 with fused toes on one leg, the middle and outer toe. Can anyone tell me if this is hereditary? I clipped them apart like someone had done here on BYC. Any help and advise will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Barred Rocker]

These are two of my 6 month old roos. They seem to be shaping up pretty good. Although the roo that sired them has a little two much straw coloring on the hackles. I'm wondering if it will show up on them later on.

 

[math ace]

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I am going with NO. .. .. .If you don't see it now at 6 months, I doubt you are gonna see it later.

JUST OUT OF CURIOUSITY - - - Is there any way we could see a picture of the daddy?

 

[snowbird]

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Wooch, there are so many unknowns with the Marans breed in general that it can be hard to understand sometimes what is really going on. The main thing to remember is the Marans are a work in process. I find the more I hatch the less I really know about them.

I would suggest that you watch the Marans thred here and see what is being pictured. If you can got see the breeder Marans suggest you not buy the eggs. If you are just looking for dark eggs then it would not make any difference what the birds look like. Most decide eventually that they want Marans that are bred to the SOP even though they do not plan on showing. I feel your pain as I hatched over 600 last year and grew them out and culled down to 33 BC. Don

 

[Barred Rocker]

I posted him on another page but here he is again. He's pretty but has several disqualifying traits.

 

[snowbird]

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These males will not change to straw color, very nice color for their age, also I like that they have a narrow black stripe and not a big wide stripe. very nice. Don

 

[snowbird]

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This is a good example of what we have recently been talking about using the straw colored with the darker color to neutralize the color on the end result. Thanks for posting these pictures. Don

 

[math ace]

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This is a good example of what we have recently been talking about using the straw colored with the darker color to neutralize the color on the end result. Thanks for posting these pictures. Don

That is why I asked to see the Dad . .. .

The offspring do have a wonderful shade of copper

Barred Rocker . ... I would LOVE to see what the hens look liked that you paired the straw roo up with to hatch such wonderful shade copper on those cockerels. . . .

I would not of thought the hen in the background would of made a good match with the straw roo. . . Did you use her or another hen?