International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

Rooster 2 much crisper white.
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Chooks man, He is not as clean as he looks in picture. His white on his saddle feathers isn't crisp white. Still keep him? My camera lightens everything.

that is OK .
what I m looking the silver of the shoulder marking .he has a complete pattern and good silver his Autossomal silver is there .Not the Autossomal Red . .you have to look at his shoulder and the bottom feather of his hackle see if they are bordered with copper .they should be clean silver or almost .
breeding a silver doen t come so easy .

hatch around 20 chicks from him and see .

is the other rooster has better silver or what .post photos please .easier for me to compare

chooks man
 
I like the darker Blue also but I think it hides the lacing. I was told medium blue. How many shades of blue and which is the right shade. I don't know. It's all in the details and in the Marans world it's never cut and dry. NEVER!!! lol

A Blue copper is not genetically a pure variety .it is a semi washed up Black . it is just a plumage shade .
to get a correct shade of blue .a person has to breed them new each time from a Black copper rooster over a Blue copper hen . F1 progeny.
never ,never ,never use a Blue copper rooster over a Blue copper hens .very bad practice .

Marans people how make the SOP do many mistake . they don t accept a Splash { Breed true} as variety but they want to force a blue instead . the Genetic does not listen to people . it is a low of nature ,has to be respected .

chooks man
 
I like him and I like the hen with him as well .great body type ,great hackle marking .large shoulder and a correct lovely comb .
you can breed a lot gorgeous silver Black from this pair for sure .

chooks man
He is in with your favorite Blue Birchen hen and two clean Silver Birchen hens. I will try and get some pictures tomorrow after church. I have 6 chicks from this pen.
 
do not get ready of this rooster ,his silver is price less .don t to worry about a copper dot around hi head . we will breed it out .
he has too many great thing to pass down to his progeny .
you can back cross to him but you can out cross him to others .

every thing about him is great .body type ,tail and deep chest .

chooks man


I totally agree. I used to be hard on judging chickens before I learned that no chicken is perfect. we are breeding, not showing.
 
they do that because it is new place for them and new group of rooster .
if you pen them together they will fight to establish a top dog place .only one rooster run the show in the chooks world .
so they have to sort it out .
you have to watch them the first hour when you pen them ,so you can stop the fight if goes out of hand .

chooks man


luckily the nice tailed guy backs off. and they have 3 other roos to fight through the wire, lol.
 

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