Blue Copper and Splash Copper Marans Discussion

[Blue Roo]

. This is my youngest blue copper sitting on one of are goats

 

[Viollettt]

. This is my youngest blue copper sitting on one of are goats

Haha. That is cute!

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

yellow would be a wheaten colored chick and splash would be more white/gray colored. post a pic.

Looks yellow to me. So this is a throwback to wheaten somewhere in the BCM line? Is this a reason to cull the line?

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: I think that would be a wheaten..... you didn't hatch any Rhodebars at the same time did you? Wheaten is recessive so that would mean each parent would have to carry a recessive wheaten gene. Look for the signs..... lighter legs mossiness, halo in hackles. Your roo is carrying it for sure. I would try to replace him and find the hen with it. If all your breeders are siblings.... they probably all carry it.

I have only every hatched one wheaten chick and it was from someone elses eggs. Are you sure your roo is a copper and not wheaten?????

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

I think that would be a wheaten..... you didn't hatch any Rhodebars at the same time did you? Wheaten is recessive so that would mean each parent would have to carry a recessive wheaten gene. Look for the signs..... lighter legs mossiness, halo in hackles. Your roo is carrying it for sure. I would try to replace him and find the hen with it. If all your breeders are siblings.... they probably all carry it.

I have only every hatched one wheaten chick and it was from someone elses eggs. Are you sure your roo is a copper and not wheaten?????

As sure as one can be, yes he is BCM (with wheaten in the woodpile apparently, as most are?). I did hatch Rhodebars at the same time but have my hatcher in groups so I know which chicks came from what eggs...this was definitely an egg from the Marans. (I also only got two Rhodebar cockerels, very dark with clear head spots.) The female was either a blue Marans or a BCM from a totally different line. All legs are dark and feathered, haven't seen a mossy chick yet. Recessives are tricky...outcrops can show up from so many generations back it makes one question one's mental state that the eggs were identified correctly but they were...so the phenotype says this is a "pure" wheaten??

I am waiting for a younger cockerel to mature enough to test breed...he has so far darker copper markings and no halo effect showing.

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: Your chicks from these mating will carry it and it will keep popping up.

 

[MIKEBD2]

I got a surprise. I had ordered a dozen BCM eggs. and out of the hatch I ended up with two Blue. One cockerel and one pullet. This is the Cockerel at 17 weeks.

 

[DMRippy]

I got a surprise. I had ordered a dozen BCM eggs. and out of the hatch I ended up with two Blue. One cockerel and one pullet. This is the Cockerel at 17 weeks.

Yes they are blue. looks like they both have a lot of copper on the breast too.....

 

[MIKEBD2]

I ended up with 7 cockerels and all of them have a lot of copper on the chest.

 

[Chad Cool]

I ended up with 7 cockerels and all of them have a lot of copper on the chest.  

Do you want the copper on the chest or Blue on the chest? How do you know they are wheaten?