International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[Chooks man]

Would love to be in line for an autographed copy!

done deal my friend
chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

I will give my dark cuckoo roo with copper leakage to a friend of mine who has a gold cuckoo hen. I will use another roo, with little leakage (dark blue cuckoo) and a black hen. looking forward to hatch solid black and blue.

I will also get some bcm from a fb friend. he has huge birds with nice copper that lay dark eggs. tails are a bit high but my marans should help with that.

sound good plan . looking forward to see some of they chicks good luck
chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Me too!

all done .all you guys are in my list for a copy each .sign .hopefully I ll get to that stage .
chooks man

 

[NanaK]

Thanks chooksman! I wish you much luck finishing it. I look forward to that day very much! I love a good read.

Now to get over this flu. I've been sick over a week now and I'm not used to being stuck inside like this, getting better, no more fever and now a bit stir crazy. The achy muscles want to linger. Been trying to move around some to get my strength back. Maybe I need to go out and sit with the chickens a while, they always make me feel better.

 

[chickengr]

I am sick as well but getting better. so I spent more time searching for chickens and decided to order some. they should hatch and be ready for shipping around the end of march/april. I ordered:

5 blue copper marans
5 blue silver marans
5 british araucanas (lavander and black)
10 pita pinta asturiana (only 1 guy in greece has them).

I expect to get some black silver marans from my cuckoo guy and a black hen. I also plan to keep black and blue copper marans together and hopefully to get some splash next year.

 

[Chooks man]

Thanks chooksman! I wish you much luck finishing it. I look forward to that day very much! I love a good read.

Now to get over this flu. I've been sick over a week now and I'm not used to being stuck inside like this, getting better, no more fever and now a bit stir crazy. The achy muscles want to linger. Been trying to move around some to get my strength back. Maybe I need to go out and sit with the chickens a while, they always make me feel better.

hope you get well fast .
chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

I am sick as well but getting better. so I spent more time searching for chickens and decided to order some. they should hatch and be ready for shipping around the end of march/april. I ordered:

5 blue copper marans
5 blue silver marans
5 british araucanas (lavander and black)
10 pita pinta asturiana (only 1 guy in greece has them).

I expect to get some black silver marans from my cuckoo guy and a black hen. I also plan to keep black and blue copper marans together and hopefully to get some splash next year.

that is a good order.
what is pita pinta asturina ?

from where are you getting all those chooks ? friend or some farm ?
chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

last Sunday we had 2 months worth of rain in 24 hours , from fire to flood . nature does not play around .
we let Asad out of his pen ,because of flooding , he end up injuring 8 pullets from the gr#1 during night . not happy with him at all . I will find him home ,no way he will stay with me .

chooks man

 

[NanaK]

I am sick as well but getting better. so I spent more time searching for chickens and decided to order some. they should hatch and be ready for shipping around the end of march/april. I ordered:

5 blue copper marans
5 blue silver marans
5 british araucanas (lavander and black)
10 pita pinta asturiana (only 1 guy in greece has them).

I expect to get some black silver marans from my cuckoo guy and a black hen. I also plan to keep black and blue copper marans together and hopefully to get some splash next year.

Sorry you've been sick too.

Been doing some chicken shopping, huh? Sounds like you've got some great one's line up! I had to look up the pita pinta asturiana...lovely bird...what a looker!

I'd also love to end up with some blue coppers and splash. I only have 4 black copper hens. I do have other birds but not marans. Problem for me is I'm finding it difficult locating any decent marans here.
My only rooster is a maran mix. His mom was a black copper hen who laid a dark egg but his dad was a mutt, Australorp/Buff Orpington. He is now 4.5 years old and follows me like a puppy, a really sweet guy. He gets to stay even if I have to give him a few of my older girls and start a separate flock.

Meet my boy Elwood.

 

[NanaK]

last Sunday we had 2 months worth of rain in 24 hours , from fire to flood . nature does not play around .
we let Asad out of his pen ,because of flooding , he end up injuring 8 pullets from the gr#1 during night . not happy with him at all . I will find him home ,no way he will stay with me .

chooks man

Australia's weather has been on our news here a lot recently. Just last night they showed some waterfalls and were saying because of the wind the water was running up instead of down the falls ! Amazing ! No mother nature does not play around !
I truly hope you have no damages or losses from all of this bad fire and flooding. We get hurricanes here and lost almost everything except family and pets during a bad flood several years ago. Home, everything in it, 2 autos, camper, shop full of tools...it was awful. Thankfully all family and pets got out in time. We had some insurance to help, too. Some were not so lucky. There were locals who died. It was a very tough time.
Fires and floods are scary! Look out for yourself, be careful!

Hope your injured pullets recover. Was Asad playing or ???? Maybe he just needs more training?