International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[Chooks man]

How many chooks are at the Sydney farm? I hope all goes well with the move and sorry for your loses.

Over120 adult chooks . 60 breeding roosters , 40 Marans hens and abut 50 or 60 F1 ( Marans X CLB and Marans X NN.
I m only taking my Marans and Marans xCLB up north. Troy s is keeping the rest
I think I ll come back in 2 weeks time with a truck to move them.
On my way to the north farm now actually on the train leaving Sydney now.
Lot running around my friend.
Chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Black hen her sire is CTB and her Dam is DarkEye love her low to the ground body type. I have her true sister too she is blue both of them are a solid colour no copper any where even they sire CTB has a complete body pattern . I m suspecting they mother is partly solid blue. Need some test mating this season to find out.
Both girls are super chunky like they sire.

Chooks man

 

[bigsurfwaves]

OK I think I get it. They just took some anomaly birds with genetic mutations and bred them together to keep these colors going?

 

[bigsurfwaves]

This is the extent of my knowledge...
Splash x Splash: 100% Splash
Black x Black: 100% Black
Blue x Black: 50% Blue, 50% Black
Blue x Blue: 25% Black, 50% Blue, 25% Splash
Blue x Splash: 50% Splash, 50% Blue

@Chooks man or @Bantambird can explain in much more detail. Can you post pics of your blue splash?

That is exactly what I have read and attempted to save in the designated "chicken knowledge" area of my brain...

 

[bigsurfwaves]

Agnes of Mauze - my Wheaten Marans

Eleanor of Aquitaine - my Golden Cuckoo

Guinevere of Camelot - my Blue Splash Marans

Olivia my F1 Olive egger = Black Copper Marans + Ameraucana


These are my Marans. All from Meyer Hatchery. Except for the F1 Olive Egger - she is from Mt Healthy.

 

[bigsurfwaves]

They are all sweet sweet birds. In my opinion though - the golden Cuckoo is not as pretty as I thought she would be. She lacks contrast and I don't love the brownish mossy color in her rear half. It actually deterred me from getting a Golden Cuckoo rooster.

The Splash was an incredibly lively chick but she lagged on perching and movement later on.I think she hated temporary confinement. My son calls her Bored. Literally that is her name. She is also my husband's favorite. My neighbors liked her color so much they have ordered some for their flock.

The Wheaten is an outcast from the flock. She has one friend- a tiny Ameraucana and she is always the last to eat and she HATES the new cockerel. She hides in the coop and I'm a little worried about her free ranging a long ways ff by herself. That is how I lose hens. I am brooding some more chicks to coop with her and Sofia (the Ameraucana) with a different male... the Cream Legbar who is only a baby now.

 

[Tstraub]

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Agnes of Mauze - my Wheaten Marans

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Eleanor of Aquitaine - my Golden Cuckoo

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Guinevere of Camelot - my Blue Splash Marans

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Olivia my F1 Olive egger = Black Copper Marans + Ameraucana


These are my Marans. All from Meyer Hatchery. Except for the F1 Olive Egger - she is from Mt Healthy.

Those are some pretty birds I hope my little girl blue grow up to look like your Olivia. Blue is a 10 week old BCM x EE.

 

[BlueTheBrahma]

OK I think I get it. They just took some anomaly birds with genetic mutations and bred them together to keep these colors going?

Yes, this is exactly how all breeds of animals are bred, mutations which are bred to create groups of the species with these genes. Eventually a lot of these build up and are then spit off into breeds with the same traits, though often colours are shared across most breeds.

 

[BlueTheBrahma]

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Agnes of Mauze - my Wheaten Marans

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Eleanor of Aquitaine - my Golden Cuckoo

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Guinevere of Camelot - my Blue Splash Marans

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Olivia my F1 Olive egger = Black Copper Marans + Ameraucana


These are my Marans. All from Meyer Hatchery. Except for the F1 Olive Egger - she is from Mt Healthy.

Do you have a rooster you want to breed them with? If so tell me what type and I can maybe explain what the offspring from each hen will be.

 

[Bantambird]

A pretty pullet caught my eye, and here's all the colors I have, black silver( birchen) , blue silver, white, and splash (silver instead of copper based, a much cleaner look for splash I feel, but everyone likes what they like)