International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[Chooks man]

she is gorgeous!

at least my new girls have tails like that.

nice to hear .
your new hen has a correct body type and a correct tail .it is a reason I liked her .

now you have a new blood ,you can breed your marans better . with ease , you have many ways to achieve your goal .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

I can breed cuckoo marans as well. I hope you will not disappear this summer so you can advise me how to breed all these varieties.

my friend put the blue guy with her black gold cuckoo girl. she wants to hatch cuckoo marans. her hen lays #4-5 eggs.

I should be around .hope all goes well .

have goals ,what really you want to breed and stick to it tell you get it done .
new place ,new chooks why not a new goals .
breeding proper marans .

your friend will get some golden cuckoo from her pair .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

I should take more pictures, but I hatched 35 birchen/blue birchen about 10 days ago and another 23 on good Friday. 2 more whites showed up in the first group, none in the second, but the next hatch is turkeys, so I set a dozen darkest eggs of week to be guide chicks for the poults. The Marans certainly make great guide chicks!

healthy number to select from . love to see some photos .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

@Bantambird

your Silver Black rooster is stunning .love his complete body pattern ,pure silver .love the ways he walk .
I see a couple of Blue cuckoo cockerels way far back .they look lovely .

is the red shoulder cockerel is a son of the silver black rooster in the same photo ?if yes than the hen you mated him to is not a pure birchen .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

I was hoping to get a good Black Copper rooster to put over my blue Copper hens.

if you hatch enough you ll get some nice BC rooster .your hens have a correct body type ,so they son s will be lovely .the copper hackle I m not sure yet .because I don t know which hen has a red copper in her hackle .even a little amount will do .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

@marchick

your marans chicks are well chunky ,plum type .correct marans body type .
I know your hens will throw some gorgeous and correct chicks .

chooks man

 

[chickengr]

depend on how pure black is a hen .
there is a difference between a pure black hen and over melenised BC hen .

will be easier to breed a pure black from a Blue cuckoo cockerel or a blue cuckoo hen ,because both of then showing a dark hackle .in the photos any way .I suspect the Extended black marans and some body is trying to ad colour to them .

chooks man

I think I have 2 extended black hens. they look like ravens, no trace of any other colour.

 

[chickengr]

nice to hear .
your new hen has a correct body type and a correct tail .it is a reason I liked her .

now you have a new blood ,you can breed your marans better . with ease , you have many ways to achieve your goal .

chooks man

both new hens look the same. one is bigger/heavier than the other one and has more meat on chest. the smaller one is not skinny, just a bit smaller with less chest.

 

[Bantambird]

@Bantambird

your Silver Black rooster is stunning .love his complete body pattern ,pure silver .love the ways he walk .
I see a couple of Blue cuckoo cockerels way far back .they look lovely .

is the red shoulder cockerel is a son of the silver black rooster in the same photo ?if yes than the hen you mated him to is not a pure birchen .

chooks man

I'm pretty sure I know who is carrying the autosomal red. There's a blue birchen hen who has a slightly wrong color on her breast and a bit of straw at the bottom of her hackle. Sad part is she has a complete pattern otherwise. I'm betting half her offspring are awesome and half are poorly colored.

 

[marchick]

congrats, they are cute.

even here in greece this year is bad for hatching. the first eggs people set did not hatch. I wonder if it is due to a prolonged winter.

We had a bad winter here but I am sure my poor hatch was due to power outage. They where 2/3 formed and died.