International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[Braxton Brigade]

I was on the Marans Aspirans forum and saw where Monique got an award and next to it was an egg the color of the top on in this photo. Amazing

Can you give me a link to that?

 

[Chooks man]

Top Centre, an extraordinary eggs colour, caused by a very slow passage of a few days, through the oviduct allowing an accumulation of porphyrin pigments on the shell. Nearly a black-violet colour .

Top Left, same colour as the egg to the right but with a brilliance that shows extra quality. A Mahogany shade.
Top Right, A frequent colour with the pigment deposited in very fine dot points.
Bottom Pair, Eggs showing pigment deposited in splotches.

It should be noted that selection for the black-violet coloured egg would drastically reduce egg production.


(I thought this might be useful to those of you on the thread)

thank you ,that what I tried to explain , super dark egg layer are a gad layer .

chooks man

 

[Braxton Brigade]

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Top Centre, an extraordinary eggs colour, caused by a very slow passage of a few days, through the oviduct allowing an accumulation of porphyrin pigments on the shell. Nearly a black-violet colour .

Top Left, same colour as the egg to the right but with a brilliance that shows extra quality. A Mahogany shade.
Top Right, A frequent colour with the pigment deposited in very fine dot points.
Bottom Pair, Eggs showing pigment deposited in splotches.

It should be noted that selection for the black-violet coloured egg would drastically reduce egg production.

(found the post that this was related to)

 

[Chooks man]

Laughing....... need a little copper on the roos chest!

I like my rooster to have a coppery spotted chest ,but my hen s with a pure black chest . Balance no extreme = better progeny.uniform

chooks man

 

[Braxton Brigade]

You asked how much my hen weighed, she is approx. 6.39 lb. That is 2.9 kg from what a google conversion chart says. I will have to invest in a scale for my eggs and my chickens, it is probably a gadget worth having.

@Chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

You asked how much my hen weighed, she is approx. 6.39 lb. That is 2.9 kg from what a google conversion chart says. I will have to invest in a scale for my eggs and my chickens, it is probably a gadget worth having.

@Chooks man

that is good weight .2.9Kg

so mass is not an issue than.
So she only need a good comb and pretty eyes with a well marked chest rooster to be paired with to give a great result.

nice to know this little thingd they help in pairing the breeders .

chooks man

 

[Braxton Brigade]

that is good weight .2.9Kg

so mass is not an issue than.
So she only need a good comb and pretty eyes with a well marked chest rooster to be paired with to give a great result.

nice to know this little thingd they help in pairing the breeders .

chooks man

She is quite a long bird, I was almost worried that was a bad thing as most I have seen are more wide and short in length. I was happy to hear that it could be a asset. Almost all my hens could use a well marked rooster. Kind of ironic that the average chicken keeper dreads roosters and we are all trying to get enough to end up with a few nice ones haha.

 

[Red Banks]

Quote: Also ironic that our hens have no color and they keep telling us to get rid of our roosters with some color on the breast. Then they lament hens with no copper hackles.

 

[Red Banks]

Quote: Go to Marans Aspirans. It is a forum that you have to join. After you join you will have to write a brief post of introduction. It is all in French so challenging for me but fun all the same.

 

[Braxton Brigade]

Go to Marans Aspirans. It is a forum that you have to join. After you join you will have to write a brief post of introduction. It is all in French so challenging for me but fun all the same.

Wow, I'll have to check it out.