International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[Chooks man]

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Here's some blue birchen and a birchen marans!

I do like they hatch down color and they body type .
lovely width between they leg .short and plum

Bravo

chooks man

 

[KF0002]

Got a picture of my oldest cockerel from Apollo and Sheraz (#60). High tail.. but otherwise he is a nice looking bird. He is about 6 to 6.5 months old. I might just be taking this boy to the show next month.

He looks a lot like his sire.

Apollo

 

[BobletFarmBirds]

Got a picture of my oldest cockerel from Apollo and Sheraz (#60). High tail.. but otherwise he is a nice looking bird. I might just be taking this boy to the show next month.

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He looks a lot like his sire.

Apollo
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Does the cockerel have black mixed into the saddle Feathers? And should he have more copper on the shoulder? Apollo is a very nice looking roo

 

[KF0002]

Does the cockerel have black mixed into the saddle Feathers? And should he have more copper on the shoulder? Apollo is a very nice looking roo

He is still young and has a lot of coloring up to do. I have found that Marans are very slow to mature and dont reach their full color potential until 10-12 months old. His brothers that are a 1-2 months younger still have a lot of black.

 

[KF0002]

Apollo was actually under a year old in that picture and is even more well colored now that he is a cock. I will take a more recent pic ASAP.

 

[BobletFarmBirds]

Ok. We have 2 10 month cockerels and 1 8/9 month cockerel. Should we expect any color darkening/lightening or no?
We are trying to figure out our breeding stock.

 

[BobletFarmBirds]

Question-
Does anyone have a list of Marans genetic makeup? Is it the same for all chickens? Having a hard time understanding. It would be very helpful.

 

[KF0002]

I tried my best to get some decent pictures of my pullets but they are too busy scratching and grazing. Here is one I managed to get. She is the cockerel's sister, also off Apollo and Sheraz.

Most of the pullets behind her are Olive Eggers. The barred birds are Cream Legbar cockerels.

 

[KF0002]

Ok. We have 2 10 month cockerels and 1 8/9 month cockerel. Should we expect any color darkening/lightening or no?
We are trying to figure out our breeding stock.

I will take a picture of Apollo now and you can see the any difference as they get older. He was approximately 8 months old or so in that picture I posted earlier. He is around 14-15 months old now. The copper shouldn't really lighten or darken, but more usually comes in as the birds mature.

 

[KF0002]

This is the best shot I could get of Apollo. I couldnt get a good pic at all of him out in the run.

He got a little frost bitten on the back of his comb but not bad enough to dub. He also doesnt normally look that "squirrel tailed" but he was aggravated thinking I was bothing his hens.

They've been busy.