International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[KF0002]

Ah I m all over it like the rush .

here my new home made set up . new incubation room inside the house in of the spare room I have . nice and cool East facing so it is cooler room

they are marked as A ,B ,C etc........... they have a count down too .



a good thing that a lot people did not want to cancel the order they placed . they prefer to wait another year because there is no one selling the marans varieties I m offering ( if I can hatch them first )

I was going to give back they deposit but they would it accept it . Guess I have to keep it than .

few where not happy ,but that life you can t please every body .

the hatcher are in the Landry easier in case for handling a chicks when they come out of the hatcher ( if they are going to hatch) . I have to stop the habit of counting my eggs before they hatch .

about the Cream LegBar I don t know much about them .they are my friend chooks ,he want me to breed them and we go 50/50 in the surviving chicks .
I need to look at them .
I actually like them heavy forager . and nice large Blue eggs .

chooks man

I have 2 CCL pullets in with a mixxed flock. I think they are beautiful and full of wonderful personality. They're inquisitive [if a bird could ever actually possess that quality] the best foragers. They are not afraid threat. They will chase my two non-chicken friendly chihuahuas if they get too close. They are are the first to alert the others if a large bird is flying over and head to the bushes. I really love those two little girls.

Thanks guys! I think I want a few legbars to work with. I also want to add some Ameracaunas that lay a brighter blue egg to make my egg cartons prettier for the girls at work that buy my eggs. I will use the blue layers crossed with Marans to create Olive Eggers also. So many experiments! My husband may kill me.

 

[winterhorses]

Since you mentioned cream legbars, do you like the breed? I have heard mixed reviews. Since Greenfire Farm first imported them into the US I have wanted them but the price was outrageous. Now the price of them is more reasonable and I would like to get a few to see how well I like them. I would love an autosexing breed as a layer to replace my Leghorns. Plus I just love crested and barred chickens.. and the light blue/green eggs are just so pretty.

I literally just ordered a breeding pair of CCLs from Greenfire, as well as 4 BCMs, to arrive at the end of Feb. I'm praying and pleading to get at least one pullet out of the group. Pinky and his group are from the Bev Davis line, but I'm hoping the nice straight backs of the GF pullets will help correct my current sweep-y, cushion-y girls!

I'm also starting to think I should change Pinky Pie's name. My kids named him before we knew his sex, and it doesn't seem very fitting for my top cock, lol.

 

[winterhorses]

Thanks guys! I think I want a few legbars to work with. I also want to add some Ameracaunas that lay a brighter blue egg to make my egg cartons prettier for the girls at work that buy my eggs. I will use the blue layers crossed with Marans to create Olive Eggers also. So many experiments! My husband may kill me.

This sounds exactly like me - the husband part, too, lol. He's going on deployment in a few days, though, so what he doesn't know can't hurt him, right??

This is one of Lav OEs that I think just started laying. She may have been covered by Pinky before I separated him and his girls from the main flock. My two young LA cockerels are trying to mate with their new flock but don't quite seem to have the hang of it yet. I feel bad for the girls since it's such a change. Pinky was smooth and fast, lol.

 

[KF0002]

I literally just ordered a breeding pair of CCLs from Greenfire, as well as 4 BCMs, to arrive at the end of Feb. I'm praying and pleading to get at least one pullet out of the group. Pinky and his group are from the Bev Davis line, but I'm hoping the nice straight backs of the GF pullets will help correct my current sweep-y, cushion-y girls!

I'm also starting to think I should change Pinky Pie's name. My kids named him before we knew his sex, and it doesn't seem very fitting for my top cock, lol.

I have some CL eggs in the incubator a-cookin as we speak. lol. I ordered them from a breeder fairly close to me that purchased their stock from GFF. I don't like ordering chicks due to a bad past experience I had. I bought a dozen eggs and the breeder sent 16. So far there were 4 that I removed because one blood ringed, one had a horrible rolling detached air cell, and the other two didn't start developing. The 12 that are left are veining and developing well. Fingers crossed I get a good hatch! If at least half of the 12 hatch I will be overjoyed!

You can rename him if you must, but I think Pinky Pie is very unique. When a child names a cockerel Pinky Pie, you call him Pinky Pie. That's the unwritten rule. lol.

My cull FRF cockerel is named Chicken Dinner.

 

[KF0002]

This sounds exactly like me - the husband part, too, lol. He's going on deployment in a few days, though, so what he doesn't know can't hurt him, right??

This is one of Lav OEs that I think just started laying. She may have been covered by Pinky before I separated him and his girls from the main flock. My two young LA cockerels are trying to mate with their new flock but don't quite seem to have the hang of it yet. I feel bad for the girls since it's such a change. Pinky was smooth and fast, lol.

Yes young cockerels take a while to perfect their technique. I watch from outside the pens and just think.. poor girls. Those clumsy cockerels are less than graceful, and far from gentle.

My Marans cockerels are starting to feel their oats and have been grabbing my pullets and trying their best to top them. Cooper, my LA cockerel is the boss in that pen and quickly sets them straight. He has recently started crowing and watches out for "his" girls. I have to move everybody this weekend and take the extra cockerels I don't need right now out.

My husband tries to resist when I want new chickens, but he has learned to just go with it because I am relentless. I have worked hard in school so I think I have earned a few new chickens. Once he saw the CL eggs I think he is intrigued. lol

 

[winterhorses]

I have some CL eggs in the incubator a-cookin as we speak. lol. I ordered them from a breeder fairly close to me that purchased their stock from GFF. I don't like ordering chicks due to a bad past experience I had. I bought a dozen eggs and the breeder sent 16. So far there were 4 that I removed because one blood ringed, one had a horrible rolling detached air cell, and the other two didn't start developing. The 12 that are left are veining and developing well. Fingers crossed I get a good hatch! If at least half of the 12 hatch I will be overjoyed!

You can rename him if you must, but I think Pinky Pie is very unique. When a child names a cockerel Pinky Pie, you call him Pinky Pie. That's the unwritten rule. lol.

My cull FRF cockerel is named Chicken Dinner.

Hope you get a good hatch and can't wait to see pictures!

I'm the opposite in that I've had good experience with chicks but about 50-50 with eggs. If they arrive fine, I have a great hatch rate. I just got these LA eggs last week.

The lady admitted to the fact that they weren't the best eggs and said she hated sending them. I'll be asking for a refund or new ones if I don't get many to develop.

 

[winterhorses]

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My husband tries to resist when I want new chickens, but he has learned to just go with it because I am relentless. I have worked hard in school so I think I have earned a few new chickens. Once he saw the CL eggs I think he is intrigued. lol

I've got two OEs that are half CCL. I think their black crests make them look a little demented, lol.

 

[KF0002]

Hope you get a good hatch and can't wait to see pictures!

I'm the opposite in that I've had good experience with chicks but about 50-50 with eggs. If they arrive fine, I have a great hatch rate. I just got these LA eggs last week.

The lady admitted to the fact that they weren't the best eggs and said she hated sending them. I'll be asking for a refund or new ones if I don't get many to develop.

Those eggs look old and may be stink bombs when you incubate them so take caution and watch them. I would never send old, dirty, stained eggs to someone and would be highly upset if someone sent them to me, so you have the right to be angry.

Later on we can network with each other and swap eggs to freshen our lines. There I go counting my chickens before they hatch.

Here is a picture of the eggs I ordered when I unpacked them. The breeder went above and beyond in his packing job and they were wrapped up like Fort Knox. Not one single cracked or broken egg.

 

[KF0002]

I've got two OEs that are half CCL. I think their black crests make them look a little demented, lol.

I love Olive Eggers! I don't have any yet but I look forward to experimenting with egg colors. They are beautiful!

 

[baunlee]

well now we truly have gone off on a tangent. In the spirit of this, now seems like a good time to post pictures of my birchen pair. I posted these in the birchen thread and someone asked me to also share here. These are the only 2 birchens I have, which is unsettling, in the sense that one incident could turn things off course for me. It's like the guy knows it because he has been doing this disappearing act and roosting somewhere at night that isnt in the coop area; yet, when morning comes he's with the group. Definitely pulling out all the stops for my attention and it's working. I don't know anything about birchens. I picked the eggs up from a person who shows coppers and birchens. I was there to get the coppers and took 3 of the birchens. Luckily 2 made it AND one female and one male. such luck! I still have a lot to learn with these though. Many of the birchen males seem to have tails and backs that drop off like a cliff, though mine isn't too horrible, I was still a bit surprised he was given a good review on the birchen thread.