International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[KF0002]

I was going to tell you earlier. It is my phone camera and I edit photos. I cut out all the unnecessary background. No one needs a camera anymore.... my phone is the best camera I have ever had.

Unfortunately the camera on my phone is not so good. My phone has just about had the lick and I'm going to have to buy another one. lol

Luckily my husband got me a digital camera for Christmas. He knows how much I love taking pictures of my chickens! I may have to try out the editing software that came with it.

 

[Red Banks]

Quote: Editing changes everything. With a good camera you can be a good distance away. Take many shots. Find the best picture. Then focus on the bird you want. It takes minutes to crop the picture and you have a really good shot. Like your avatar. I have a Samsung 6.


Handsome boy Kayla!

 

[KF0002]

Editing changes everything. With a good camera you can be a good distance away. Take many shots. Find the best picture. Then focus on the bird you want. It takes minutes to crop the picture and you have a really good shot. Like your avatar. I have a Samsung 6.


Handsome boy Kayla!

The cropping of pictures I can handle. A lot of the time its the getting good shots of the chickens that is most difficult, leading me to bring them into the kitchen. My camera doesn't take good action shots (or if it doesn't I haven't figured it out yet) so when the chickens are moving all you see is a blur. lol. I need to find a pretty basket to take egg pics in also.

My current avatar pic is Mud (FRF line). He's a nice looking cockerel but he hasn't quite gotten the hang of fertilizing his ladies. Just candled some eggs from his pen this morning and they are all infertile.

The cockerel in the picture you cropped is Cooper's sire last spring. The breeder from Louisiana sent the pics of him to me. I wish he was mine! Lol. Cooper is looking a lot like him though I think. Here are some more recent pics of Cooper's sire from the breeder.

 

[Red Banks]

Quote: He is so nice....

 

[chickengr]

Thank you! Your CLs will probably lay a green/blue egg. The pretty blues are from the Ameraucanas. One of them is now laying (probably Bielefelder/Marans cross) an almost pink egg. Very happy with the BCMs color.

nice eggs.

if you cross a pink egger with a blue egger you will have nice grey eggs in your basket too.

 

[Red Banks]

Getting the eggs ready for the Farmers Market. Already
delivered to the neighbors. I thought you would like this
picture Kayla.



Cream Legbars and Ameraucanas, the nearly pink egg


Ameraucana and Cream Legbar (Jill Rees)

 

[Red Banks]

Every time I eat a BCM egg I think this is a very expensive breakfast!

 

[Bantambird]

James Bond is said to love Marans eggs in the books.

 

[KF0002]

Getting the eggs ready for the Farmers Market. Already
delivered to the neighbors. I thought you would like this
picture Kayla.



Cream Legbars and Ameraucanas, the nearly pink egg


Ameraucana and Cream Legbar (Jill Rees)

Oh I am so jealous! So pretty!!

My free-loading bunch here are all on strike, except for some of our Games and the LA BCM pullets that give me 1-2 eggs a day (and sometimes the Marans all skip a day together.) Occasionally a Sussex lays here and there. Sussex are supposed to be good winter layers, what a crock. Even my White Leghorn hens are on a break surprisingly. We have put fresh wheat straw into their coops so that may help. They get high quality feed, and table scraps for treats. Without supplemental lighting in my area, a drop in egg production is to be expected during the winter. Of course, my neighbor has a pen of production type Buff Orphingtons she uses as layers and they are laying religiously.

I think my chickens are broken.

 

[KF0002]

Every time I eat a BCM egg I think this is a very expensive breakfast!

That's exactly what I said the other day! I fried my husband two Marans eggs for his breakfast. It was almost a shame to crack them.. they were nearly too pretty to eat.