International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[kfelton0002]

I took some random pictures of the two oldest groups. I think the mossy spots on the BC pullets have mostly disappeared already. One of the 3 BC pullets she was clean to start with. I have it logged.


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They are looking good! You can send me one of your extra blue copper cockerels when you cull through them later.

 

[marchick]

They are looking good! You can send me one of your extra blue copper cockerels when you cull through them later.

That's a possibility but would be expensive to ship!

 

[marchick]

They are looking good! You can send me one of your extra blue copper cockerels when you cull through them later.

They could carry mossy gene though. Some of the BC chicks where mossy. Looks like it may be molting out. Maybe not all of them are carrying the mossy gene IDK.

 

[marchick]

Black Jack has shoulder color coming in now.

 

[Punkybrewster]

Awful news.
My birds have MG.
So far we have culled the egg flock. They were extremely sick one by one.

Tomorrow we will cull all the beautiful marans. I did cull 2 that has been suffering for a while now. Lethargic, fluffed up, gasping.... Saw the bubbly eyes and culled them today.

I think illness came in with the shipped marans chicks. I had put them with the newly hatched ones all together. One blcm was sneezing coughing and i thought it was just shipping stress. I didnt know. All the years of bird raising and ive never had this happen.

No other marans are showing symptoms but they will all be carriers i assume.

I have the legbars still in the brooder so they should be ok, that second dozen of local marans eggs due to hatch this week.

If i clean out the big coop and bleach everything, then in a couple weeks i can put these remaining ones out.

This is awful. I will admit, i cried.

 

[marchick]

Awful news.
My birds have MG.
So far we have culled the egg flock. They were extremely sick one by one.

Tomorrow we will cull all the beautiful marans. I did cull 2 that has been suffering for a while now. Lethargic, fluffed up, gasping.... Saw the bubbly eyes and culled them today.

I think illness came in with the shipped marans chicks. I had put them with the newly hatched ones all together. One blcm was sneezing coughing and i thought it was just shipping stress. I didnt know. All the years of bird raising and ive never had this happen.

No other marans are showing symptoms but they will all be carriers i assume.

I have the legbars still in the brooder so they should be ok, that second dozen of local marans eggs due to hatch this week.

If i clean out the big coop and bleach everything, then in a couple weeks i can put these remaining ones out.

This is awful. I will admit, i cried.

I am so sorry! disinfect and from what I have read it can survive in a pen for several weeks. I am sure others will chime in that know more than I do.

 

[kfelton0002]

They could carry mossy gene though. Some of the BC chicks where mossy. Looks like it may be molting out. Maybe not all of them are carrying the mossy gene IDK.

I can live with that. My blue coppers are a work in progress anyway.

 

[kfelton0002]

That's a possibility but would be expensive to ship!

It would be worth it to put some color in the shoulders of my males. And to correct the split hackle marking.

 

[marchick]

It would be worth it to put some color in the shoulders of my males. And to correct the split hackle marking.

Split hackle marking? I dont remember this.

 

[kfelton0002]

Split hackle marking?

The black flame in the center of the hackle feathers.