Black Copper Marans discussion thread

[immyjay54]

Question??????????????
I have Black Copper, Blue Copper and Golden Salmon Marans. It seems that so many of my Marans eggs have little dark specks of something in their eggs. Sometimes it is big enough to pick out with a spoon sometimes it is really small. Have any of you all noticed this. I never saw this in any of my other eggs. I know sometimes we'll find a blood spot but this looks like little specks of dirt. lol I sell eggs and none of my egg customers have said anything about this but I've seen it in some of the eggs that I break open to fry.
Jim

 

[DMRippy]

Question??????????????
I have Black Copper, Blue Copper and Golden Salmon Marans. It seems that so many of my Marans eggs have little dark specks of something in their eggs. Sometimes it is big enough to pick out with a spoon sometimes it is really small. Have any of you all noticed this. I never saw this in any of my other eggs. I know sometimes we'll find a blood spot but this looks like little specks of dirt. lol I sell eggs and none of my egg customers have said anything about this but I've seen it in some of the eggs that I break open to fry.
Jim

I don't sell my marans eggs for eating. It is common in Marans. Mine seem to have cleared up mostly, but still I will not send those home with someone to get grossed out.

 

[immyjay54]

I don't sell my marans eggs for eating. It is common in Marans. Mine seem to have cleared up mostly, but still I will not send those home with someone to get grossed out.

Thanks for the reply. I had never seen where anyone else ever mentioned this. Since it is common in the Marans, I won't be raising anymore of them. lol I have so many different kinds and if this is a common trait someone else can put up with it. lol
Thanks
Jim

 

[pinkchick]

OK guys, haven't been here in quite some time, took pics of the younger roos (9 mos), some were gotten from a breeder in NC, some are homebred, some are local.

I don't mind the critiques at all, I'm not fully satisfied with any of them except hens ROFL....but they are stepping stones. I got the great color on two of the NC roos, but one is almost banty sized and the other is nice sized. My biggest BCM young roo is homebred but too much gold in his hackles but a lot of nice things about him.

These pics are on Facebook, so not sure if you can pull the album or not, it is *public*.

Also wound up with something that looks like a black birchen? as well as two blue silver birchens (one lighter blue, one darker blue)....again I know they are not top quality but gotta start somewhere? or just straight to the freezer/grinder?

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...0558398258028.405924.691468027&type=1&theater

Hi! Good to see you back!

I took a peek at the chooks and yes they are Silver Birchens....I only saw 2 in the link you posted and black and a blue. Both look as though they have some slight gold leakage in the silver, but such light amounts of leakage should be easy to work with if breeding to a another bird that has good silver showing no leakage. The black one looks like he is nice and beefy and the blue on the right looks as thought he may have squirrel tail, but then it also looks as though it could be a bit windy out side. Do you have more photos of them? Would love to see them!

 

[deanawo]

Question??????????????
I have Black Copper, Blue Copper and Golden Salmon Marans. It seems that so many of my Marans eggs have little dark specks of something in their eggs. Sometimes it is big enough to pick out with a spoon sometimes it is really small. Have any of you all noticed this. I never saw this in any of my other eggs. I know sometimes we'll find a blood spot but this looks like little specks of dirt. lol I sell eggs and none of my egg customers have said anything about this but I've seen it in some of the eggs that I break open to fry.
Jim

One or two of my hens is laying an egg with the specks. I don't bother to pick it out. Should I? It isn't dirt & it doesn't affect the taste so I don't.

 

[pinkchick]

Question??????????????
I have Black Copper, Blue Copper and Golden Salmon Marans. It seems that so many of my Marans eggs have little dark specks of something in their eggs. Sometimes it is big enough to pick out with a spoon sometimes it is really small. Have any of you all noticed this. I never saw this in any of my other eggs. I know sometimes we'll find a blood spot but this looks like little specks of dirt. lol I sell eggs and none of my egg customers have said anything about this but I've seen it in some of the eggs that I break open to fry.
Jim

Sometimes they have meat spots or blood spots in the egg....I believe most folks will tell you that it happens more in younger layers than in older established hens. I don't have a problem with spots and my egg customers have never said a word about anything in their eggs so I have lucked out in that dept., I guess. Now if they would just start laying again....vacation time is over, but they don't believe me! LOL!

 

[BarnGoddess01]

Question??????????????
I have Black Copper, Blue Copper and Golden Salmon Marans. It seems that so many of my Marans eggs have little dark specks of something in their eggs. Sometimes it is big enough to pick out with a spoon sometimes it is really small. Have any of you all noticed this. I never saw this in any of my other eggs. I know sometimes we'll find a blood spot but this looks like little specks of dirt. lol I sell eggs and none of my egg customers have said anything about this but I've seen it in some of the eggs that I break open to fry.
Jim

A handful of my BCM eggs have had the spots and I have had a customer mention it - wondering if it was a chick developing or a health issue with my birds. I now make sure to tell anyone buying my Marans eggs that they might have blood spots and give them the option of selecting something else if they are concerned about it. So far, no one has been bothered by the spots and I don't believe I've lost any customers because of it.

 

[immyjay54]

Sometimes they have meat spots or blood spots in the egg....I believe most folks will tell you that it happens more in younger layers than in older established hens. I don't have a problem with spots and my egg customers have never said a word about anything in their eggs so I have lucked out in that dept., I guess. Now if they would just start laying again....vacation time is over, but they don't believe me! LOL!

None of my customers have said anything about it but I just feel funny about selling them with those specks in them. I have probably 15 Marans in with my other layers that I let run together and all were hatched early last summer. I have Delawares, Sussex and Marans that are 1 year or less then I have about 60 mixture of Barred Rock, Sex Link and Buff Orpington that are older (almost 4 years, hatchery birds) running together. I just hatched out a little one from a pure Delaware hen that has a Marans daddy (it has feathered legs) last Thursday and is it ever a cute little thing. I don't mix them when I'm wanting to raise some to sell though. lol This was just a test egg that I used to put in with some shipped eggs that I was hatching.

 

[kefiren]

Hello Everyone!

FBCM's...Gentle Giants, right? I've got the kind of setup in which I walk in the chicken yard constantly, not the type where you just do things on the edges. So I'm pretty picky about rooster personality. My FBCM's are just over 6 months.

MacDaddy scares people and sometimes pecks their hands. He gets over-protective when we go to collect eggs from "his coop". He side-steps us in the chicken yard.

I've picked him up twice and carried him around to try to teach him who is boss. So has my son. It's helped, but I think he is going to be aggressive. He isn't going to be the worst rooster I've ever had, but not a gentle giant either.

From chickhood I thought this might be an issue so I kept another roo from the same batch, named Cuddle Rooster. MacDaddy is horrible to Cuddle Rooster, and I really need to get rid of one or the other.

However MacDaddy has "IT"--the majesty. Cuddle Rooster has the gentle personality (so far) but is otherwise just ok.

What to do? I could breed my hens to MacDaddy and immediately cull him. Get some majestic girls, then mate Cuddle Rooster to my hens to get a docile boy?

 

[chicken-whisperer]

We have only BCMs and five sweetheart Roos but one meanie. He was from a real friendly roo and his offspring so far have not been aggressive. Can it be that Agro is not passing his bad manners on to the chicks ?