Blue Copper Marans help

[MandyH]

I know putting a black copper roo over blue hens will give me blue coppers. But do blue coppers breed true or will I get into all of the crazy blue genetics by breeding blue copper to blue copper or will I get only blue copper's by breeding blue copper to blue copper?

 

[Illia]

Blue Coppers work in the same way any "Blue ---'s" do, in that they go by BBS genetics. But really, crossing a black copper to a solid blue girl does not give a true Blue Copper on the first generation.

Anyway, Blue Copper x Blue Copper gives Blue, Black, and Splash coppers.

 

[MandyH]

Thanks, that what I thought. I've raised blue birds for several years and figured that it was the same.

 

[cthrash1]

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So then this is my dilemma... I asked once before but never was told these quotients in the answer. When my chickies grow up, will it be better to keep a black Copper roo(if there is one in the bunch) over the Blue copper girls instead of the blue copper roo. So far out of 8 chicks at 4 weeks old it is looking like my only male is a blue one with no copper showing yet... He has had an orange comb since a few days old though, then 3 blue copper females(one could possibly be male traits wise but no comb yet), then I have 4 black copper females(I'm thinking) and they have absolutely no sign of male in them unless I have a late bloomer in that bunch. Looks like I better be praying for a black copper roo to show up in the bunch...

 

[MandyH]

That was throwing me off too about getting BBS. But I wasn't sure how the copper factored in either. I would be interested in knoweing what birds to breed to each other to be able to get only blue copper chicks. I have a little blue copper cockeral and he is GORGEOUS, then I have a splash hen, so I was wondering what I would get out of this mating.

 

[hoppy]

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if you breed black copper to splash copper then you will get all blue coppers.

 

[thick chick]

What if I cross my blue copper maran rooster with my french black copper maran. What will I get

 

[junebuggena]

If they both have feathered legs, they are both 'french' Marans.

 

[thick chick]

Yes both are feathered legs

 

[thick chick]

So I will get the black and the blues if I cross them ?