International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[KF0002]

I have about 5 cockerels that are really nice. Very hard to pick them so I narrowed it down to 4 out of the 7 and I hope they don't change in the wrong direction and the culls don't become beautiful. I was thinking about keeping the best cull just to see what happens but I have never had a cockerel get better. I think it is there from the start or it isn't. I will take too much color over some of the other flaws.

I would be thrilled to have 5 nice cockerels to choose from! Lol. Im hoping the younger ones Im growing out turn out better than my last bunch of cockerels. I would be tickled to death if my culls became beautiful!

 

[Red Banks]

This is #8, the mother of your chick with the brown spot. @shepherd6567

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This was when she was a pullet, her comb is bigger now.

Which cockerel is in the background of these pictures?

 

[KF0002]

Which cockerel is in the background of these pictures?

That is Maximus.

 

[shepherd6567]

This is #8, the mother of your chick with the brown spot. @shepherd6567

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This was when she was a pullet, her comb is bigger now.

Very nice. Really hoping the spot chick is a pullet.

 

[shepherd6567]

I have been outside deciding which cockerels to keep and moving the culls to another pen. Wish I had rehomed Tony2 a long time ago, he is a pain. He will be gone this week. Almost 5 months. Some pics:

Number 2 pick
His tail is higher than I would like but I can't throw him away..... way too nice.
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Great looking cockerels! You should be proud!

 

[Red Banks]

I would be thrilled to have 5 nice cockerels to choose from! Lol. Im hoping the younger ones Im growing out turn out better than my last bunch of cockerels. I would be tickled to death if my culls became beautiful!

I walked back out to the cockerels pens. This is so hard!!!! I saw two in the keeper pen that now look like culls and one in the cull pen that is the cockerel I posted last week with the light halo hackle I was going to keep. I have found that the hackle color does change and in my case always deepens to copper. Maybe I should wait another month except for Tony2. He is gone but you should see his color - gorgeous! Or I could just hatch out another bunch and only keep 1.

 

[Lyndseyft13]

So I happen chance to acquire what appears to me to be Black Copper Marans. However my lady doesn’t lay any dark eggs, which id like. Is there anyway I can breed these two and have a chance of having a new chick that will lay dark eggs?

 

[shepherd6567]

I walked back out to the cockerels pens. This is so hard!!!! I saw two in the keeper pen that now look like culls and one in the cull pen that is the cockerel I posted last week with the light halo hackle I was going to keep. I have found that the hackle color does change and in my case always deepens to copper. Maybe I should wait another month except for Tony2. He is gone but you should see his color - gorgeous! Or I could just hatch out another bunch and only keep 1.

As fast as they are changing, I would say it would be wise to let them continue to grow out and mature without trying to analyze weekly. Barn blindness can be a serious problem. Lol

 

[Magnolia Hill]

Hello everyone, its been awhile since I've posted but i read everyday. I see the topic of the brown dots and i figured i share my recent experience. I bought a couple blue, black and splash copper marans 2 weeks back(p.s. this is my 4th bloodline I'm going to try, praying i atleast get some decent birds to work with because my other 3 lines were pure doo doo) well out of 17 chicks 10 were black and 7 of them had the "copper dot" on there heads, now 2 weeks later every single one is mossy, and every bcm chicks I've ever had with the dot turned out mossy. But i seem to have the worst luck with the marans and nearly gave up on them a couple times, but i figured i keep going. I love them. I was also wondering, do the blues and splashes ever have problems with mossiness? Or is it a black thing? Any help and or advice would be appreciated .

 

[Red Banks]

So I happen chance to acquire what appears to me to be Black Copper Marans. However my lady doesn’t lay any dark eggs, which id like. Is there anyway I can breed these two and have a chance of having a new chick that will lay dark eggs?

Maybe.