Blue Copper and Splash Copper Marans Discussion

[jbruner51]

Is this "BCM" supposed to have this kind of coloring on its back? I talked to the guy I got them from and he told me his wife mixed some olive eggers in the pen by accident and he'd let me keep them and give me a Marans of my choice.

 

[DMRippy]

You have an olive egger cockerel for sure.

 

[jbruner51]

You have an olive egger cockerel for sure.

A cockerel??? Really??? Please say it ain't so.

 

[DMRippy]

Sorry 100% he already has a comb and see the copper feathers at the base of his tail.....that is a roo thing.

 

[jbruner51]

Welp... Looks like he'll be goin to freezer camp at the end of summer

Man I'm sick of roosters. I have the worst luck ever when it comes to getting hens...

 

[LTrain]

My blue copper at 9 wks. Cockerel or Pullet?

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

If Snowbird thinks they are mixed odds are pretty good he is right. It is VERY hard to tell Olive Egger apart from Marans.... trust me if they lose a leg band you can't tell them apart.... I would just sell them as pullets if I couldn't tell them apart. Olive Egger can have straight combs too and feathered legs and if you are lucky muffs and beards but if they don't they look like Marans when they are younger. UNLESS you have the eye that Don has.

Yet another vote for toe punching as ID.

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

What is the body type for backyard layers and how do you breed for

You can get The Call of The Hen to read on Amazon.com. That will tell you everything you need to know about production in poultry, period. Show birds that don't/can't produce due to structural faults are useless, and the SOP standards for type are based on production. The reason we don't like pinched tails, narrow hindquarters, short backs, squirrel tails, etc. are production issues.

 

[malndobe]

Got my first egg from my BCM. I'd kind of forgotten I had her, she's the only one I have in a layer flock of 40+, so when I found this egg in a nest I was trying to figure out who could have laid it. My Cuckoo Maran is broody right now, plus she doesn't lay eggs this dark. My Barnies aren't quite at the POL, and they won't be this dark either, then I remembered my BCM.


And a couple pics of my girl

Enjoying a scrambled egg snack


Heading somewhere in a hurry, probably trying to get away from my d'Uccle Rooster, she's one of his favorite hens.

 

[DMRippy]

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That is the EXACT reason I toe punch now. Only sure fire way to make sure you have the right bird.