International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[Chooks man]

Here is "big guy." He is on the narrow side but his profile view is lovely. I think we had decided to cull him too but I struggled to part with him today. Grrrr!!!

I couldn't get a pic of his rear view. He kept running from me. He is a bit narrow in the tail. No pyramid in the back.

Does he go? I can cull but I can't un-cull so I just want to be 100% sure.

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he can go . he does not have what you need .
Keep the colourefull high tail .atlease he has a gorgeous and complete body pattern .

chooks man

 

[KF0002]

he can go . he does not have what you need .
Keep the colourefull high tail .atlease he has a gorgeous and complete body pattern .

chooks man

Ok so the brown eyed cockerel, high tail, and SW stay for now. What about this one? Did we determine he stays?

 

[Chooks man]

Ok so the brown eyed cockerel, high tail, and SW stay for now. What about this one? Did we determine he stays?

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we said he has to go .
if I remenber correctly he is a somn of Malika .
chooks man

 

[KF0002]

we said he has to go .
if I remenber correctly he is a somn of Malika .
chooks man

Ok I was just making sure! Thanks!

 

[KF0002]

I am glad you encouraged her to keep this guy. I fell in love with him.

Thank you! I appreciate you saying that. He is a lovely bird, I agree. Hopefully I get some decent birds from him minus the brown eyes.

 

[KF0002]

These are the parents of the Blue Copper Marans I posted yesterday. Plus some eggs from the various bird lines in them (the Blue Copper Marans). The lighter eggs are the Blue and Splash hens. Dark eggs are from the BCMs that got attacked. Can't wait to see how dark their eggs will be. Enjoy!
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Nice eggs and birds! Very lovely!!

 

[KF0002]

I will coment on them one by one , I look @ every trait .every part of they body .

to fair to the bird we have to look @ what they where bred for ,what breeding program they come from ,some fault in one pen is more axceptable than other .

in this case @kfelton0002 chooks .they where bred to fix the tail angle .Duke did just that .
where needed some length on they back .Duke did that .
where bred to eliminate the hallo from Duke ,some succses .
Down sizing the comb .Duke did that .

So over all our Friend @kfelton0002 doesn t know she did a great job ,because her breeding program was a seccses @ high rate no 100% { no many peoples can clam that high score} .I say the program was 90% seccsefull.
if @kfelton0002 marked all the eggs from wich hen ,than some pairing are @ 100 seccses .

chooks man

Thanks a lot for the encouragement and positive feedback! I needed to hear it, especially after the show this weekend. I've been going back and reading through your comments on my birds. I am going to start working on making notes as to which males to single mate to which females.

 

[KF0002]

you did very good by picking #1 first ,he is the best .

chooks man

I ended up culling #1. On closer inspection, he had a wry tail.

 

[Chooks man]

I ended up culling #1. On closer inspection, he had a wry tail.

that no good news . #1 is going ,who will replace him?
chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Thanks a lot for the encouragement and positive feedback! I needed to hear it, especially after the show this weekend. I've been going back and reading through your comments on my birds. I am going to start working on making notes as to which males to single mate to which females.

I explain every breeding method I know to how you should breed your chooks ,
if you are breeding to take your bird to a show where the is incompetent judges than you are wosting your time my friend .
BUT if you want to breed proper marans than take your time and breed ,forget about those guys .tey don t know ,very simple and clear .why ask thet opinion and get stress about it .I will not give them a chance to look at my chooks never mind judging them .
the person who is going to judge my chooks is not bord yet .

I want to breed proper old style marans , so I don t need the judges .I just need to focus on my breeding program .

chooks man