International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

Chooks man · Nov 12, 2017

here a show quality comb all standard . French /USA/UK and AUS
the wattles need work .they are larger and are folded in 2 places.

Sun Set Storm .Sire White Storm and Dam Scany

chooks man

Red Banks · Nov 12, 2017

Chooks man said:
I have 8 hens/pullets broody now .they have 13/15 marans eggs each .

one birchen hen hatched 10 chicks today ,but she crashed 4 of them . only 6 left .

haven t switch on the bator yet ,too many thing to do on the farm for the time been .a lot planting ,summer crop .Permaculture way .

chooks man

I wish I had broody hens.... it makes life so much easier!

Red Banks · Nov 12, 2017

Chooks man said:
here a show quality comb all standard . French /USA/UK and AUS
the wattles need work .they are larger and are folded in 2 places.

Sun Set Storm .Sire White Storm and Dam Scany View attachment 1184992

chooks man

Always love seeing this line! :thumbsup

Chooks man · Nov 12, 2017

RedBanks said:
Always love seeing this line!

this line is the foundation of my future Columbian Marans Variety . MARANS HERMINE'

I love this line my self as much as I love the they sire White Storm . he is now 3 years old .
Blondie Storm .

Yellow Storm

this 2 cockerels are half way columbian ( only one copy ) the are supreme sire of the Columbian line .
this guys have many queens waiting for them . I ll name them well .
here one of them . Malkia ( Swahili- African language - name for Queen). she is a Silver wheaten ( washed out ).

can t wait to pen them , waiting for the pullets to reach they first year . one more month to go and they ll penned together .fingers cross .

@ RedBank . one day in the future you ll get fertile eggs from this guys progeny
chooks man

dvoice · Nov 13, 2017

Some of my latest grow outs. They’re 4 months old now.
Xing fingers for nice dark eggs.

KF0002 · Nov 13, 2017

I put #8 (FRF x LA pullet) in the pallet pen the other night. Her back does slightly slope uphill toward the tail starting at her mid back. Her eyes are marbled which is no biggie because Maximus has good eye color. One of her wattles had a notch in it. Other than that I think she looks pretty good. I moved Maximus to her pen this evening to give his 2 girls in the other pen a break.

Another FRFxLA pullet (#12) I have my eye on has a straighter back but is leaner in build. Her hackle is lighter too. I will try to get pics of #12 tomorrow.

KF0002 · Nov 13, 2017

My APA standard of perfection came in. It has tons of great info and pics!!

ScottandSam · Nov 13, 2017

Ok I am back and have some pics of our small flock. Turns out we have 2 roos and 2 hens. With 12 more fbcm eggs in the incubator I will be looking to get rid of one of the roos asap. They are all 14 weeks old today. If we need to hold onto them longer please let me know as today is the 1st day for the fbcm in the incubator. Oh Tail fethers look a little misplace he was just getting done doing the roo thing with another hen. Pens are being built asap.
Roo#1......................................................................