International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[Bantambird]

how many eggs you incubate at any given time ?
are you using one shelf a week or you fill up all the bator at ones ?

Chooks man

One shelf a week. Everyone decided to take a break this week currently except the turkeys, darn those chickens!

 

[Bantambird]

So going for the silver cuckoo would be a better addition versus blue Birchen, you think? Both will help my main problem, but finding quality silver cuckoo can be hard... Unless you all know someone.

 

[marchick]

I have 3 BCM and 5 Blue Copper Marans about 16 weeks old. I also have one Blue Copper rooster that is showing Copper but he has a white tail feather. In my batch of 8 there where 3 roosters. This is what I have to work with!!!! Any and all input would be awsome. Thank you!

 

[Chooks man]

So going for the silver cuckoo would be a better addition versus blue Birchen, you think? Both will help my main problem, but finding quality silver cuckoo can be hard... Unless you all know someone.

both of them work together well .they can be run together too .

Blue Birchen with a Birchen will give you 50% each

Silver cuckoo ,you only need hens no rooster .

witch one is easier for you to get .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

I have 3 BCM and 5 Blue Copper Marans about 16 weeks old. I also have one Blue Copper rooster that is showing Copper but he has a white tail feather. In my batch of 8 there where 3 roosters. This is what I have to work with!!!! Any and all input would be awsome. Thank you!

the 2 young ones are nice .need better photos of them to comment .I hardly can see any thing .I like them both .the Blue and the Black

photo of they faces so we can see the comb and over all body look phots as well .

the 2 rooster have a majors faults Straw hackle and the white one the first one
second one h have mass and great back, but. no copper .open tail . clear under fluff . this one carries the parasitic white .

chooks man

 

[marchick]

the 2 young ones are nice .need better photos of them to comment .I hardly can see any thing .I like them both .the Blue and the Black

photo of they faces so we can see the comb and over all body look phots as well .

the 2 rooster have a majors faults Straw hackle and the white one the first one
second one h have mass and great back, but. no copper .open tail . clear under fluff . this one carries the parasitic white .

chooks man

Thank you, I will get more photos when I can!

 

[marchick]

I tried to get a few more pictures! First two pictures are of Blue Copper and second two Black Copper. My camera always lightens everything.

 

[KF0002]

@kfelton0002
Could you show & tell the difference between your incubators & your hatchers? I know everyone on here hatches A LOT of chicks at one time, but I was just wondering about the difference

I set and hatch weekly like a revolving door. I set in one incubator and hatch in another to keep my sportsman clean. New eggs go into the sportsman as the oldest eggs come out and go into the hatcher (Genesis) for lockdown on day 18. I have used my older sportsman 1202 for setting and hatching before and my hatch rates were always good. I am using a small hovabator Genesis as a hatcher now during lockdown and it works very well. I have it rigged up where I can add water to the bottom of the incubator with a piece of clear tubing (like fish tank air tubing) so I dont have to open the incubator during lockdown. I am very happy with the system I am using because I am always setting fresh eggs, no older than a week old. That contributes to a good hatch rate also.

 

[oregonkat]

the 2 young ones are nice .need better photos of them to comment .I hardly can see any thing .I like them both .the Blue and the Black

photo of they faces so we can see the comb and over all body look phots as well .

the 2 rooster have a majors faults Straw hackle and the white one the first one
second one h have mass and great back, but. no copper .open tail . clear under fluff . this one carries the parasitic white .

chooks man

Hey Chooks Man, when you say 'parasitic white' I am assuming that this is a bad flaw. I just got some FBCM chicks from a woman who has one rooster, very similar to the photo, with white in his tail. Her other FBCM rooster was very good looking. Unfortunately, she had not kept the flawed rooster away from the hens so no way of knowing which chicks came from him. What signs would the chicks have of parasitic white and is it possible to breed it out in later generations?

 

[pioneerchick816]

@kfelton0002
Thank you! So basically you just switch to another incubator to hatch out? It was sounding, to me (inexperienced) that there were two different types of devices. It makes since now, it keeps the one clean