International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[KF0002]

give them more rest .don t rush thing up .you are breeding for quality .over all condition of the hens and the size of the eggs is very important .no way around it .
if the pullets are not ready than breed Malika/Queen first with DA that will give a pullets a time to fully grow . than romove the hens and breed the pullet . 2 set of 2 hens/pullets and 3 cockerels . 6 trios combination breeding in 4 stages . straight forward .20 chicks of each pair will give oyu 120 chicks roughlly high quality pairing.breeding .
Hens .Queen and Malika
Pullets . Perfect and nice hackle one I like the one you showed .
Cockerel .Prince .Dark Angel and Vortex . that is your breeding flock if I was working with your bird .
I will give Duke a rest and I will test Duches with all 3 cockerels to see how goes without interfering with a main breeding program .your hens line .

chooks man

So I will not be needing Duke this year? I can pen him by himself then on my next set of days off.

I think Duchess would pair well with Vortex as she has a low tail angle. I may try that first. I can trio mate him to Duchess and another female simultaneously as I know what Duchess's eggs look like. The well colored pullet I showed has a low tail as well. She may be a good match for Vortex also. Perfect still is rather immature, I looked at her yesterday but couldn't get good pics because she was wet. Her comb is still small.

 

[KF0002]

I m happy with him .you can t win all the time .you win some and you lose some .way of life .
Dalakhania,Unicorn and Shiva s are the most unique hens in the farm .he bred 2 and missed one .no bad .
Unicron is a Red Pyle .mean golden salmon with one copy of dominant white gene . her progeny are hal whit other half are salmon . producing correct big and well rounded chicks .
Shiva s is Solid Black unique too and rare .big solid type .her chicks a lot off them with DW are super nice .huge and correct .

Dalakhania next year I will have better cockerels for her .she is throwing long nice pullets but a cockerel are a little short on they back . need to be matted to a long flat back rooster .like by import BLC cockerel . he will be perfect for her .to produce a correct Splash cockerel .to start her line .
I though DW will do that .I was wrong .he did forget to read the sript. hahahaaaaaaaa

chooks man

Yeah sometimes chickens don't like to do what we want them to do. Im glad you got some good chicks out of DW this year.

 

[KF0002]

@kfelton0002

Dark Angel .has a perfect comb .true marans comb .meduim size ,rough texture ,balanced points .lefted lobe . Perfect
his chest is well marked too
love the soundness of his legs .strong ,meduim size .straight ,well feathered and spaced .
love to see his cockerels progeny with Malika/Perfect . they will be your future show cockerels line .

chooks man

Thank you! Glad to hear that. I hope to produce some cockerels to show next year.

I have tried to research the genetics of eye color in poultry and apparently it is very complicated and not well understood. That is why a male with marbled eye color like Duke mated to hens with clear eye color can produce a mixture of brown eyed offspring, clear eyed offspring, and marbeled eye color as in my case this year.

I think Perfect has amber/light brown looking eye color. I will look at her closer on my days off. She and Dark Angel may not be the best pairing because of the high volume of dark eyed birds they likely will produce. What are your thoughts on this?

 

[KF0002]

Malika has good clear eye color and nice hackle color. She and Dark Angel hopefully will make beautiful offspring together.

This is a cropped picture of Malika to zoom into her eyes. Her comb is ugly but luckily Dark Angel has a nice comb.

 

[KF0002]

Here are a few more pictures of the well colored pullet I showed. Go figure she didn't pose well at the show, I think she might be shy. She sure shows well here at home. I think I'll call her Jolie which is french for pretty.

 

[KF0002]

Jolie has a lot of Malika's attributes so I'm thinking she is Malika's daughter. Just a guess since they were group mated.

 

[Chooks man]

Here are a few more pictures of the well colored pullet I showed. Go figure she didn't pose well at the show, I think she might be shy. She sure shows well here at home. I think I'll call her Jolie which is french for pretty.

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she is stunning .yeah she knew @the show judges are useless ,so she did not carre .now we talking breeding ,she comes alive .
she is very sleek .love every thing about her . BRAVO .great job my friend .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Jolie has a lot of Malika's attributes so I'm thinking she is Malika's daughter. Just a guess since they were group mated.

I was thinking of a same thing .she is so sleek like Malika s.
chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Malika has good clear eye color and nice hackle color. She and Dark Angel hopefully will make beautiful offspring together.

This is a cropped picture of Malika to zoom into her eyes. Her comb is ugly but luckily Dark Angel has a nice comb.

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she has a correct comb type and size but not a proper points numbers that all .

I see correct progeny will come from her and Dark Angel . they look compatible to me .
chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Thank you! Glad to hear that. I hope to produce some cockerels to show next year.

I have tried to research the genetics of eye color in poultry and apparently it is very complicated and not well understood. That is why a male with marbled eye color like Duke mated to hens with clear eye color can produce a mixture of brown eyed offspring, clear eyed offspring, and marbeled eye color as in my case this year.

I think Perfect has amber/light brown looking eye color. I will look at her closer on my days off. She and Dark Angel may not be the best pairing because of the high volume of dark eyed birds they likely will produce. What are your thoughts on this?

if perfect has a brown eyes than can not be mated to DA .she will be mated to Vortex and Prince .
never mate chooks with a same faults ,regardless what you breeding for .
chooks man