International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[marchick]

all 5 of them look good , each one of them is good in certain traits .
you done a great job to breed these gorgeous birds .BRAVO

chooks man

Thank you! I couldn't have done it without your help and your vast knowledge of Marans. Thank you my friend! I appreciate you so much!

 

[Chooks man]

@marchick
who is the biggest or the heaviest cockerel?
I can see the copper and the other stuff but I can not tell they mass .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Thank you! I couldn't have done it without your help and your vast knowledge of Marans. Thank you my friend! I appreciate you so much!

all good .you did the heavy lifting my friend .I did the talking that for sure .we did all the work .thank you for your dedication to a marans breed .
I talked to a lot peoples ,but no many of them bred BCM like you . the most amazing thing about it ,is you bred them from BLCM strain . most of so called Marans breeding they say couldn t be done .you should be very proud of your self .
chooks man

 

[marchick]

@marchick
who is the biggest or the heaviest cockerel?
I can see the copper and the other stuff but I can not tell they mass .

chooks man

I am not sure! I will have to go out tomorrow and get a good look. #2 without a tag has a lot of growing to do. He is out of the youngest batch.

 

[marchick]

all good .you did the heavy lifting my friend .I did the talking that for sure .we did all the work .thank you for your dedication to a marans breed .
I talked to a lot peoples ,but no many of them bred BCM like you . the most amazing thing about it ,is you bred them from BLCM strain . most of so called Marans breeding they say couldn t be done .you should be very proud of your self .
chooks man

Thank you Chooksman! They have a lot of work left to be done. I will not give up! The parasitic white and they need work on egg color. Together we will get there! One step at a time!

 

[Chooks man]

I am not sure! I will have to go out tomorrow and get a good look. #2 without a tag has a lot of growing to do. He is out of the youngest batch.

tag #1 is staying with you as long as he live regardless of his mass . he has the most desirable traits .
Black jack and his brother ace we have to select the best of them two .
Red Dragon { white tag } he is staying too .
Tag #2 let him mature more to see how he turn up .

we want to keep one cockerel from each hen if possible .
chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Thank you Chooksman! They have a lot of work left to be done. I will not give up! The parasitic white and they need work on egg color. Together we will get there! One step at a time!

to darken the eggs color you should get some stock from @Tom Bright . he is no far away from you .
do some swapping cockerels with pullets if possible .than both of you will have a complete marans traits to work with . will take you less time plus you expend the gene pool . @Tom Bright his marans are a same class to your .he is in the 3 generation .

parasitic white will go away one day for sure .
chooks man

 

[marchick]

Chooksman, It's dark out but I went out and checked for white and they all the cockerels have parasitic white. The youngest cockerel from violet has the least amount of white so far. Yellow, red and white band are all big. Not sure which is biggest. The two with no tags are younger though.

 

[marchick]

These are eggs I am getting so far.

 

[marchick]

Chooksman I have a feeling these guys will weed themselves out by spring. Probably at least one of them will be a bratt.