International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[Chooks man]

tomorrow I ll be in the farm ,will take a lot photos of the chooks ,
i m going to start packing and preparing for the move to the new place .looking forward to see the chooks .
chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

start ordering a lot of fertile eggs of defirent chooks breed . and I m shoping for a healthy NN rooster.
found few peacock breeding pair for sale . I have to convert the tenis court into they breeding pen .lot of height and room in there .
still looking for some chinese brown gueese .
I know a breeder who has some gorgeous duck .I ll get some of him when I m ready .
guenea fowl I m getting some fertile eggs ,I think it is better ,
lot shoping .and lot of work .
chooks man

 

[NanaK]

Hi @chickengr you are alright I ll be safer far from cities . Yes I will grow my chooks feed and try to breed bugs for them too for protein . I have few extra building witch I can convert to house bugs breeding.
The chooks breed I will try to get are :
Brahmas
Cream legbar
Naked neck
Wyndotte
La bresse
La flèche
Plymouth rock
Lakenvelder
Maybe some more breeds
Chooks man

Always loved Cream Legbars! I have 11 now, ages 2-8 years old.

So you are thinking about adding some Wyandottes? I've always loved that breed so pretty! I've had gold laced in the past, beautiful also. I've been raising a few this year too. My cockerel is Blue Laced Silver and I have 4 pullets that are Black laced silver. One pullet just started laying a couple weeks ago. Hoping the other's start before it gets cold here.

@chickengr I had to look up the pita pinta asturiana. Never seen those before. Really nice looking bird. I'll have to keep my eyes open for them. I have always been partial to spotted and mottled birds. Lovely!

@Bantambird Never seen a chook that didn't go crazy for sunflower seeds. I grow some each year too. This one is lemon queen, my favorite. It branches so gives many blooms per plant and is a black oil seed type. I've also grown some of the single bloom giant ones too. What do you usually grow?

 

[Chooks man]

Always loved Cream Legbars! I have 11 now, ages 2-8 years old.

So you are thinking about adding some Wyandottes? I've always loved that breed so pretty! I've had gold laced in the past, beautiful also. I've been raising a few this year too. My cockerel is Blue Laced Silver and I have 4 pullets that are Black laced silver. One pullet just started laying a couple weeks ago. Hoping the other's start before it gets cold here. View attachment 3313574
@chickengr I had to look up the pita pinta asturiana. Never seen those before. Really nice looking bird. I'll have to keep my eyes open for them. I have always been partial to spotted and mottled birds. Lovely!

@Bantambird Never seen a chook that didn't go crazy for sunflower seeds. I grow some each year too. This one is lemon queen, my favorite. It branches so gives many blooms per plant and is a black oil seed type. I've also grown some of the single bloom giant ones too. What do you usually grow?View attachment 3313582

stunning wyandotte love the cockerels .gorgeous silver ..I alway like them just did not have time that all .
ah sun flower always prety . nice green yard , will try to fing this variety in OZ , thank you for the tip . loooking forward to grow some my self .
chooks man

 

[Bantambird]

Always loved Cream Legbars! I have 11 now, ages 2-8 years old.

So you are thinking about adding some Wyandottes? I've always loved that breed so pretty! I've had gold laced in the past, beautiful also. I've been raising a few this year too. My cockerel is Blue Laced Silver and I have 4 pullets that are Black laced silver. One pullet just started laying a couple weeks ago. Hoping the other's start before it gets cold here. View attachment 3313574
@chickengr I had to look up the pita pinta asturiana. Never seen those before. Really nice looking bird. I'll have to keep my eyes open for them. I have always been partial to spotted and mottled birds. Lovely!

@Bantambird Never seen a chook that didn't go crazy for sunflower seeds. I grow some each year too. This one is lemon queen, my favorite. It branches so gives many blooms per plant and is a black oil seed type. I've also grown some of the single bloom giant ones too. What do you usually grow?View attachment 3313582

we tried growing some first time in the garden this year, we grew the mammoth variety, it towered over everything and had dinner plate sized heads. the wild birds loved harvesting them before we could!

 

[chickengr]

in difficult years to come many breeds might go extinct. that's why I will keep more breeds (as well as a few friends of mine) so that we preserve them. we are trying to keep different breeds from each other so that we preserve as many breeds as possible. I am worried how to keep them safe when city people leave cities and start stealing animals. I believe it might happen soon. I am considering to keep a pair of wild boars at the far corner of my property. do you think that would stop them?

 

[Chooks man]

BCM pullet 18 month old . She is actually a hen now we can t call her pullet any more it is just a term we use Troy s and me in a farm . We have 2 groups one is the older hens and the second group is a last year pullets.
This young hen has a stunning body type excellent conformation . Very thick and heavy . Her tail is a little longer she is a daughter of BKCM rooster CTB over a BCM hen Philippine. She inherited the tail type from her sire . Her eggs are not very dark #5 at best . She hasn’t t got much copper too just a little like her mother

Chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Blade a blue copper split blue tail buff . His he is a son of Day Walker ( blue tail buff ) over BC hen Shiva . He will be used over my black/ white tail buff hens his half sisters. He has a stunning body type and mass plus a gorgeous comb. Hatched from #6 coloured egg.
He chat all the time .he knows he is handsome.
Chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Shanti a blue tail yellow buff Marans Blade brother . He will be used over my yellow F1 marneck hens . I like him a lot very big and heavy like his brother .
Her a photo of his father Day Walker he is 4 years old now

All Day Walker son s have a correct comb like him.
Chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Feeding time hens pen. We no longer given the our chooks access to feed all the time in a hanging feeders . We are feeding them ones a day morning time. Here few photos of the hens.