International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[Red Banks]

Quote: I struggle every day. I want to let them out. They grumble at me every time I walk by. I can hear them saying, let us out...... what is going on around here...... why are you so late opening the door?

 

[chickengr]

I struggle every day. I want to let them out. They grumble at me every time I walk by. I can hear them saying, let us out...... what is going on around here...... why are you so late opening the door?

whenever I open my door my chickens think I am going to feed them and they start shouting, just like parrots, lol.

how many dogs have you got?

 

[Red Banks]

Quote: Only Luna and now she is next door at my sisters all the time. My sister lives next door on 30 acres. I can't see her house. She has dogs and Luna is happier over there with them. I need another dog.

 

[Chooks man]

my friends are animal lovers too and they are angry with the farmers who shoot parrots. I just didn't feel like writing the full story.

lucky you for living in so much space. I must raise the pen (the sleeping part) so that my chickens can use space underneath. bedrooms are on the first floor, lol.

there is a lot of good people in this country are animal lover and they are doing they best to save them. BRAVO.

for you coop design I think it is a good idea to have they sleeping part in the first floor ( Bedroom ) living room down stairs .

I m thinking of doing a same thing in my new farm . I don have a lot space like the my actual rented farm .

chooks man

 

[Red Banks]

Quote: In my coops the roosts are high and the whole floor is the living room. I guess my coops are more of an aviary.

 

[Chooks man]

How old is this rooster? How long does it take for them to be mature?

Big Blue #2 is 7 month old on the photos . now he s 10 .young rooster.

he need to be 18 month to be fully mature . the 2 nd molt.

chooks man

 

[Red Banks]

Chooks Man, If I breed my BCM to the Cuckoos, will I get Silver Birchen? My BCM roos have very light leg feathering and my Cuckoos have none.

 

[Chooks man]

Chooks Man, If I breed my BCM to the Cuckoos, will I get Silver Birchen? My BCM roos have very light leg feathering and my Cuckoos have none.

yeah you will get BUT it is not strait forward .

need to hatch a hundred at lease in the F2 progeny .

the original Birchen marans derive from the crossing you are talking about .( BCM rooster X Silver cuckoo hen )

chooks man

 

[Red Banks]

Remember I asked you about my little mixed Olive Egger chicks (Cream Legbar X Marans hens). They all look like perfect Cuckoo Marans. They all have white skin, black shading on the front of the leg, leg feathering..... etc. How do you make a real Silver Cuckoo? Nevermind you already answered this!

 

[chickengr]

Only Luna and now she is next door at my sisters all the time. My sister lives next door on 30 acres. I can't see her house. She has dogs and Luna is happier over there with them. I need another dog.

you need at least 3 dogs if you could fence the area around your chickens and put another fence around it (leaving the road size between fences) and keep hunting dogs free running there I don't think the predators would come near.

In my coops the roosts are high and the whole floor is the living room. I guess my coops are more of an aviary.

in my main coop I've made cage for the teenagers, lol. but there is a covered porch in front of that coop and 3 raised nesting boxes with free space underneath.