Black Copper Marans discussion thread

[pinkchick]

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Sorry for the late response. I have been mostly absent from the boards lately except for a very local new thread. I have been so busy hatching (I am more than a little compulsive/impulsive) that I have been caught up in that.
The breeder that sent the "off" color eggs said she printed a color chart off the Marans site & went from that. I told her that her printer must be out & she can purchase a color chart very inexpensively to honestly go by. I really didn't even know if I wanted to incubate the eggs but they came from a really good source so I did, thinking they may turn out to be "good" birds. I didn't get a refund but she did ask "what kind of refund are you looking for"? In the end the eggs hatched extremely well for shipped eggs. My luck with shipped eggs has been poor except this batch & the batch I got from Pinkchick. I have about given up on shipped eggs & what you get from them & have been asking the sellers if they ship chicks instead.
I have amassed a large collection to choose from & will have an experienced breeder friend help me cull & keep my best. I gave up trying to do it all in one line & so have layers for dark eggs & others for aiming at SOP. It has been as a whole a very rewarding journey that continues to entertain me......LOL I have learned to roll with the disappointments & keep trying, readjusting my goals as I go.
Thanks for your interest.
Karen in California

Hi Karen!

You have beautiful birds, you have a good eye. You have already established that with the birds that you have chosen and grown out and plan to use for your breeders. I envy you having a bigger than most and such a diverse, gene pool to choose from, you will have it all right there at your finger tips. And yep.....readjusting our goals with these birds is something everyone that works with them will do or has done already.
I think all the fun with breeding chickens..... is seeing what we can create from our choices. If we like it...we can try it again.....and if we don't like it.....we can readjust and do something different.

 

[snowbird]

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Jan, not a problem as I believe it is hard to scare off anyone that is really interested in the Marans, I am a good example of that I do believe. Why not just change the header to read " Black Copper Marans not being bred to the SOP" and then we that are breeding to the SOP can start a thread saying " Black copper Marans to the SOP"

 

[flgardengirl]

Those are pretty blues.

 

[Hens and Roos]

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Jan, not a problem as I believe it is hard to scare off anyone that is really interested in the Marans, I am a good example of that I do believe. Why not just change the header to read " Black Copper Marans not being bred to the SOP" and then we that are breeding to the SOP can start a thread saying " Black copper Marans to the SOP"

I guess for whatever it's worth I enjoy reading all information SOP or just for fun and like that it is in one thread

(that way I don't have another thread to read). Thanks for all the information this far, our chicks are only 6 weeks but I am learning alot.

 

[Wynette]

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Jan, not a problem as I believe it is hard to scare off anyone that is really interested in the Marans, I am a good example of that I do believe. Why not just change the header to read " Black Copper Marans not being bred to the SOP" and then we that are breeding to the SOP can start a thread saying " Black copper Marans to the SOP"

IMO - black copper marans are black copper marans...regardless of what folks are breeding for. So - just pick & choose which information you need from the thread. It would become too confusing to have two threads on black coppers.

 

[flgardengirl]

Wynette do you have a link to any pics of your longcrowers? Not that I need any that crow any more than they do LOL! I just wanna see them

 

[geebs]

Jan, not a problem as I believe it is hard to scare off anyone that is really interested in the Marans, I am a good example of that I do believe. Why not just change the header to read " Black Copper Marans not being bred to the SOP" and then we that are breeding to the SOP can start a thread saying " Black copper Marans to the SOP"


Don: I believe that most folks on here know that I am breeding to the approved SOP... I simply don't want to scare ppl from posting because of the intensity that cam come with passion. We just need to remind ourselves from time to time that others have ideas and that we are working with different lines. And most of all that there are ppl out there that would like to breed toward the SOP and post pictures that may never show, but still would like to learn how to weed out genes and breed for particular traits. I do intend to show my birds (and, in fact, there are folks who have show birds from my breeding) but most importantly, I don't want to alienate ppl that are in it for the fun.

 

[Wynette]

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https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=438363

There are some older pics of them here - I'll get updated ones this weekend.

 

[geebs]

 

[Wynette]

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