Black Copper Marans discussion thread

[math ace]

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she is beautiful. . .

How can she be that dark and still have white feathers?
It looks like she has white on the face in the ear lobe and mouth too.


Her ear lobes are too dark and that is one Jacked up comb (

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BUT she has a very nice shape, tail angle, length of back. . . . She just SCREAMS " I am such a LADY"!

 

[Hens and Roos]

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Thanks for sharing the updated pictures and all the extra work that goes into taking and uploaded! I really enjoy looking at them and learning- I am visual when it comes to this type of learning! Are the 3 boys the ones you are keeping or are they still being decided upon?

 

[Bravo]

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Shut the front door!! 4 pullets is AWESOME!! You go girl!!!

Love the photo studies! It is so awesome to see them grow up. LOVE the idea! I might have to try this!

 

[Sphinx]

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See, I think all combs look kind of weird, so I'm still trying to figure out what is a "good" comb and what isn't.

I never noticed the white in her face til this morning. I'm still thinking the only REAL white is just above her eyes; I think the rest is reflection or crumbs.

She's actually my least favorite of the chickens, maybe because she came to me as an adult, and isn't particularly friendly? She also keeps trying to eat my pea starts.

But the body shape is fairly good? I promise I'm not emotionally attached, so brutally honest isn't a problem. It seemed to me she had a good shape, etc but I'm still so new at this.

 

[math ace]

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My main roo has the white feather AND white hackle issue. These are his off spring. PLUS, I kept another cockerel from the Nov 2010 hatch that is his son too.

Since the white hackle is a FAULT ( not a DQ ) I could live with it, if any of these boys were white feather free. They are going through their Juvie molt right now. So, they will be with me for one more month and then I can decide.

I ended up keeping the older son despite him having some white feather issues because he was on lots of anitbotics due to a really bad outbreak of fowl pox. It was during the Juvie molt time period and FEATHER COLOR can be effected by antibotics, wormers, etc. So, he has a temp reprieve also.

I am keeping all the pullets produced from the Main roo for right now. If nothing else, I can eat their eggs

 

[math ace]

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That was my BRUTALLY HONEST feedback. However, I am still pretty green at this. . . . .
Perhaps some of the more experienced eyes will give us a second opinion.

 

[wood&feathers]

Waah, looking at the pics my sick bird is the one with the best feathering on the legs!

Can anyone answer my question about vigor and the leg feathering. I started with 6 chicks, 3 with leg feathers and 3 clean. The 3 with leg feathering have been the hardest to keep healthy, and I love these babies!

Not that I care about breeding for show or sale, but the clean legged birds are hale and hearty, with a proper amount of teenage madness. My 3 feather legged ones just haven't got the same resilience. I lost one of the feather footed ones in April (the family's favorite

), and am now nursing the best one. GRRR.

 

[VillageChicken]

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http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f333/earthtwinkle/Smilies/Wow.gif she is beautiful. . .

How can she be that dark and still have white feathers?
It looks like she has white on the face in the ear lobe and mouth too.


Her ear lobes are too dark and that is one Jacked up comb (

)
BUT she has a very nice shape, tail angle, length of back. . . . She just SCREAMS " I am such a LADY"!

Okay, I'm starting to feel like Don always commenting on thumbprints and sprigs... but HEY! look at those legs! Those are some of the palest shanks I've seen on a hen, and LOOK how black she is. And the eyes are right too... So what does that mean? She's either not pure BCM or, shank and eye color are not linked very closely to feather color.

 

[math ace]

wood&feathers :

Waah, looking at the pics my sick bird is the one with the best feathering on the legs!

Can anyone answer my question about vigor and the leg feathering. I started with 6 chicks, 3 with leg feathers and 3 clean. The 3 with leg feathering have been the hardest to keep healthy, and I love these babies!

Not that I care about breeding for show or sale, but the clean legged birds are hale and hearty, with a proper amount of teenage madness. My 3 feather legged ones just haven't got the same resilience. I lost one of the feather footed ones in April (the family's favorite

), and am now nursing the best one. GRRR.

I don't know of any relationship between leg feathering and vigor.
Most of mine have leg feathering and have never had any issues.

It could just be an issue with the stock you got.
Try another breeder's stock.

You didn't say what kind of sickness your birds have. . . .
When my hatch got fowl pox the BCM were the first to get it because they were the most active of the bunch. I hatched nothing but BCM males and they were 8 - 12 weeks old and in each other's face. Hence they were spreading the virus amongst themselves. My delawares in the same pen got it LAST because they were mostly females and did very little scrapping between themselves. . . .​

 

[math ace]

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HEY VC! Somebody has to pick up Don's slack. .. . I see the thumbprint, but did you see a spring ? ? ?

She is amazingly BLACK. . . . how do you get that black and still have the white feather issue ? ?
( I really was hoping you could take time away from fatherhood to answer this question

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So . . . .. . .. what do you think -
is she not pure BCM or.. . God Forbid, is there a limited relationship between feather color and shank / eye color ? ? ? ? ?