International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[Chooks man]

@Punkybrewster
this pullet is of high quality .I like her a lot . best body type .long ,wide ,low to the ground .long back .low tail . small standing comb .deep chest . well developed abdomen .
she is stunning .she is your foundation girls for body conformation breeding program .
name her well .
chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

@Punkybrewster
this pullet is good too , but she is too much tail . love her complete hackle marking and small comb .she has a thinner bones .
this one will be marked as complete body pattern and copper quality breeder . but she need to be mated to a very low tail cockerel other wise all her progeny will have high tail and thin bone .
what color of her eggs please?
I like the chunky pullet better . we want to breed BCM like her .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

@Punkybrewster
photos of the 2 cockerel please .love to see his tail angle . how he is doing now .I know you said he is a little nasty but I need to have a look .fresh photos please .how he is looking now .

we need a cockerel with a low tail angle .
how is the eggs doing in the bator ?

chooks man

 

[Punkybrewster]

Beautiful girls! Have they laid yet?

Yes. All are laying now as of this month.
I need to start penning to learn their eggs. Who is laying what.

 

[Punkybrewster]

good looking BCM pullets . different type but both good .
the chunky one has a white flight feather .

chooks man

I saw the white flight feather and assumed it would molt out?
It almost looks like a remnant white chick feather?

I know nothing. Ha.

 

[Punkybrewster]

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@Punkybrewster
this pullet is of high quality .I like her a lot . best body type .long ,wide ,low to the ground .long back .low tail . small standing comb .deep chest . well developed abdomen .
she is stunning .she is your foundation girls for body conformation breeding program .
name her well .
chooks man

Yes.
Her name is Georgia.
After I posted all the pictures,
my chooks man learning kicked in and i knew she would pair nicely with Waylon the cockerel.
That they would compliment each other.

The pullet with full hackle pared with him would create over colored birds with no mass.

 

[Punkybrewster]

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@Punkybrewster
this pullet is good too , but she is too much tail . love her complete hackle marking and small comb .she has a thinner bones .
this one will be marked as complete body pattern and copper quality breeder . but she need to be mated to a very low tail cockerel other wise all her progeny will have high tail and thin bone .
what color of her eggs please?
I like the chunky pullet better . we want to breed BCM like her .

chooks man

All the rest of the pullets have too much tail at a high angle.

I am working on finding out egg color.

 

[Punkybrewster]

@Punkybrewster
photos of the 2 cockerel please .love to see his tail angle . how he is doing now .I know you said he is a little nasty but I need to have a look .fresh photos please .how he is looking now .

we need a cockerel with a low tail angle .
how is the eggs doing in the bator ?

chooks man

I threw him in the legbar pen for now.
I will get pictures today when the sun comes up.

9 eggs made it this far out of 15.

This is the first time using this incubator.
I like it for marans eggs. It does not hold humidity well so stays nice and low.

My other incubators humidity holds steady for a while. Not this one. It drops all the time.

Im a little worried about air cells. Their on the small side for day 16 so im keeping it around 20% instead of 30-40%.

 

[RoosterML]

I threw him in the legbar pen for now.
I will get pictures today when the sun comes up.

9 eggs made it this far out of 15.
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This is the first time using this incubator.
I like it for marans eggs. It does not hold humidity well so stays nice and low.

My other incubators humidity holds steady for a while. Not this one. It drops all the time.

Im a little worried about air cells. Their on the small side for day 16 so im keeping it around 20% instead of 30-40%.

I love that incubator,
Check out what I did to mine,
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/incuview-incubator-modified.74766/

 

[RoosterML]

I threw him in the legbar pen for now.
I will get pictures today when the sun comes up.

9 eggs made it this far out of 15.
View attachment 2504623

This is the first time using this incubator.
I like it for marans eggs. It does not hold humidity well so stays nice and low.

My other incubators humidity holds steady for a while. Not this one. It drops all the time.

Im a little worried about air cells. Their on the small side for day 16 so im keeping it around 20% instead of 30-40%.

That’s a crappy hatch rate for eggs you drove all that way to pick up.