International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[marchick]

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LoveSong BCM 3 years old hen. The best of all the Marans hens I have. Her son is free from the parasitic white, plus he is stunning , lmedium size well coloured with a stunning tail,

She is beautiful!

 

[Chooks man]

Big blue hen she is massive very heavy . Great body type and very small pointy tail. Lay large dark eggs. She produced my favourite splash cockerel . I m penning her this time with a BC rooster medium size , LoveSong s son .
Chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

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Big blue hen she is massive very heavy . Great body type and very small pointy tail. Lay large dark eggs. She produced my favourite splash cockerel . I m penning her this time with a BC rooster medium size , LoveSong s son .
Chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Overly coloured BLCM hen stunning body type and tail. Her comb is a little bit on the large size .she solid low to the ground type very heavy. 3years old we did beers her last year to BLC rooster Conan the barbarian . She produced 3 splash pullers and 2 splash cockerels with red shoulder. Handsome looking.
Here one of them

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

83 Shafia BLM hen . This Girl she is almost complete . Stunning long and low to the ground body type . Lovely small pointy tail. Lay large dark eggs with dots they are # 6 when she start laying and they drop to #5 most of the time . We did not breed her last year, this time she will be penned with BC rooster SpringBuck.
Chooks nan

 

[Chooks man]

Philippine BC 3 years old hen . Low to the ground body type . She is all fluffed up grooming her self in a worm afternoon sun . She bred last year produce a cockerel and a pullers . Both look like her . Short on they feet.
Here a photo of her son

he Has very long body and small tail a little higher but still good . Love his body type . Need more feathers on his legs .
Chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Solid black hen 3 years old. Daughter of Black Mamba over his Dam Ravendale . So she is inbred line . She has a little fluff around the base of her tail . She lay #5 coloured eggs . Good shape. She will be bred to 2 different rooster this season . The first one will be a dark copper a son of Amor . Here his photo . I haven t named him yet

he has some parasitic white on his tail. I will fix that later .
The second rooster will be a Dark Cuckoo son of Shamrock, he has white too but great body type

I want to produce solid blackcockerels to work with in the future.
All the cuckoos daughters will be cuckoo some golden and some silver . All his son s will be solid black , some will have golden leakage on they hackle .
Chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

I m on the train back from the farm 8.30 pm half hour to go. I like this train business . Not driving just do Backyard forum stuff . Great
Chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

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Solid black hen 3 years old. Daughter of Black Mamba over his Dam Ravendale . So she is inbred line . She has a little fluff around the base of her tail . She lay #5 coloured eggs . Good shape. She will be bred to 2 different rooster this season . The first one will be a dark copper a son of Amor . Here his photo . I haven t named him yet View attachment 3279132he has some parasitic white on his tail. I will fix that later .
The second rooster will be a Dark Cuckoo son of Shamrock, he has white too but great body type View attachment 3279133I want to produce solid blackcockerels to work with in the future.
All the cuckoos daughters will be cuckoo some golden and some silver . All his son s will be solid black , some will have golden leakage on they hackle .
Chooks man

You guys can see both roosters I selected to breed to her have a very low tail angle and very long back to balance her fault.
Chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Another big BLC hen very long with stunning small pointy tail. She look nice when viewed from he rear . She has well developed abdomen super wide with straight legs . No much copper she will be bred to a Dark Silver Cuckoo cockerel to produce F1 solid Black and Solid Blue cockerels . They will have little golden leakage on they neck . Her daughters will be cuckoos .black s and blue s . They will big with a correct body type and stunning tail.hope she is doesn’t t carry the parasitic white .
Here a photo of the rooster I ll be using over her. Same one I m using over a black hen

looking forward to pen them up next few weeks .
Chooks man