International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[ChickenWhisperer101]

Here are my 2 BCMS that I hatched yesterday!!!

 

[Punkybrewster]

I like their chick down color. Very nice

 

[Punkybrewster]

better side view of him, please.

This is #3 side view as you requested.

 

[Bantambird]

This is #3 side view as you requested.

Me like this handsome boy

 

[Two rivers]

This is #3 side view as you requested.

He has really nice colouring, If you hold the camera at the eye level of the subject you will get a better pic... lots of running around bent over at times. He looks like he's posing for you.

 

[wrathsfarm]

Here are my 2 BCMS that I hatched yesterday!!! View attachment 2865495View attachment 2865496View attachment 2865497

Very nice down color. Congrats

 

[Two rivers]

This is Seamus.
He is one of 3 roosters I have selected from purchased eggs last fall. My concern with this line is the parasitic white in the flock I bought the eggs from.

He does have some white underfluff and is the smallest of the 3 but I do like him.

The short tail was my goal.



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I like this guy a lot. I think you like him too because you took really nice pictures.

 

[wrathsfarm]

This is #3 side view as you requested.

This guy is georgous, and massive. Definate keeper even with the parasitic white. "We work with what we have"....chooksman. I'm no expert by any means and still learning. If all 3 boys have white I doubt it's going to molt out. How old are they?
I remember you saying Waylon had no white... So that would point towards the hens he was with? So can it be bred out by mating him with a hen with no white? I'm sure it's not that easy. Could Waylon be a carrier and not showing white?

 

[chickengr]

Heres a question.

Those 2 white tail feathers that stick up so high.

Do you think they will molt out and grow back smaller like the rest of his tail or will they grow out the same way they are now.

Would it be a good idea to wait and see instead of cull?

you can always cull. if you have space keep him for a while. roos doo change.

 

[Punkybrewster]

This guy is georgous, and massive. Definate keeper even with the parasitic white. "We work with what we have"....chooksman. I'm no expert by any means and still learning. If all 3 boys have white I doubt it's going to molt out. How old are they?
I remember you saying Waylon had no white... So that would point towards the hens he was with? So can it be bred out by mating him with a hen with no white? I'm sure it's not that easy. Could Waylon be a carrier and not showing white?

These 3 roosters in the pictures I have posted were bought as eggs last fall.
I bought them to breed in short, lower tails.
They were not hatched from my hens.

I have a group of 7 cockerels growing out that ARE from my flock. Their sire was Walon (culled) with no parasitic white.

So my plan is to keep 2-3 roosters from 1 line with parasitic white but have excellent mass and color
and 2-3 from my original line who have high, large tails but no parasitic white.

I have 3 lines of hens.
Some of them are from the same breeder as my 3 roosters with white.

I will be test breeding this spring to see what I get.

Sorry if I am confusing you.