Blue Copper and Splash Copper Marans Discussion

[jesirose]

What happens if you breed a wheaten or a cuckoo with a blue??

I have way too many boys, my favorites are my blues. Trying to decide if I should keep my cuckoo trio and my wheaten female.

 

[Infnityhrt]

What happens if you breed a wheaten or a cuckoo with a blue??

I have way too many boys, my favorites are my blues. Trying to decide if I should keep my cuckoo trio and my wheaten female.

If its a blue copper, with the red roo, if you cross your cuckoo females... I think you will get sex links, all the males will be born with a spot on there head and the females will be solid... we crossed our female cuckoos with a black copper male and got sex links

 

[jesirose]

I have 3 blue males and 2 cuckoo males,
2 blue female, 1 wheaten female, 1 cuckoo female. I had a white female but we lost her to a predator we also lost our wheaten male and 1 female.

I think I'm going to get rid of the cuckoo males, and keep the 3 blues. We do have a RIR male I could put the cuckoo girls with to do the sex links

 

[fowlmouthgirls]

My day old Blue Copper Marans, she hatched yesterday

 

[katie1015]

Hi all, I have a hard decision to make and need some help. I can only keep one rooster and I have 1 blue and 1 black marans roosters. Which one should I keep?

 

[Runawaylobster]

Hi all, I have a hard decision to make and need some help. I can only keep one rooster and I have 1 blue and 1 black marans roosters. Which one should I keep?

Well you can make both blues and blacks with only black hens if you have a blue boy, but only blacks with a black roo, to get blues with a black roo you need to have blue hens..

maybe it's a factor for you?

 

[katie1015]

I only have a blue hen? What can I get with her?

 

[Runawaylobster]

I only have a blue hen? What can I get with her?

if you hatch the eggs you would get approximately half blue chicks and half black chicks. with a black roo

with a blue roo you would get approximately 25% black, 50% blue and 25% splash babies .

 

[katie1015]

They would just be for eggs, so which would be cuter ;D. Here are pics of them

Black on top blue on bottom

 

[Blue CopperHen]

I am new to Marans, and I only have a young pair. A critique please? I just realized I don't have a good side view of my cockerel. I will try to capture a good side view of him.