International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

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SO RED BANKS IS A GIRL RIGHT!! TOM

Redbanks is a woman, yes.

 

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BABY CHICS from above hens TOMView attachment 1356289

Congrats on your chicks! They are adorable!

 

[KF0002]

Takes about 30 years? I guess I'll have to live to be a 100!! TOM

You are a hoot I swear! Your birds are already nice! I look at the tail angles and type of your birds and just drool! Very good quality in your stock.

 

[KF0002]

View attachment 1358228 Yeah!!! Picked them up at 5 am. Shipped all the way from California! Only got 4 marans. The rest are 1 cream legbar, 3 welsummer, and 2 "sage egger" (a mix they created - in guessing CL and welsummer). Their flock is having broody issues so they weren't able to fill my order completely at this time which I'm okay with. I think @RedBanks said he could tell sex on day old marans? May test your skills for fun later

Yay! They are so stinkin cute!! Congrats on your newest additions! Hooray for chicken math!

 

[Red Banks]

Oh shit.

Well then who is Keith? Aliases!!!

Edit to add - ordered 5. I have chester- a blue copper - from the same breeder. I'd like to not breed all their line so will add some from another either this fall or in spring. Will be hard to beat them though. They have nice birds.

Edit again: ya know. I'm not terribly embarrassed. I know red banks chickens when I see them!

Better that you recognize my chickens than me..... Keith is KCrandall he owns Otis etal. I think you have 1 cockerel and 3 pullets! #3 is a cockerel and maybe #2 but I don't think so. Nice chicks, good pictures. Maybe you won't have to outcross.

 

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View attachment 1359258 View attachment 1359257 View attachment 1359256 View attachment 1359255 View attachment 1359254 View attachment 1359253 View attachment 1359252 View attachment 1359246 Tried to get good pics of the new chicks (these are Alchemist Farm). They sure seem spunky for just traveling the full length of the country. I've ordered from them before and never had a sick chick. Lighting is as natural as I can get for now. @RedBanks

I usually can tell the of sex my Marans as chicks by their size. The males are bigger and more robust, while the females are smaller and more dainty. It's difficult for me to say whether yours are male or female, but hopefully Redbanks will come along and look them over. The ones that are darker in the face are usually pullets in my experience, but I'm sure that differs from line to line. Pullets have a darker comb and beak than the males also, usually. The ones with less pigment on their combs tend to be boys.

 

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Better that you recognize my chickens than me..... Keith is KCrandall he owns Otis etal. I think you have 1 cockerel and 3 pullets! #3 is a cockerel and maybe #2 but I don't think so. Nice chicks, good pictures. Maybe you won't have to outcross.

I was thinking the same thing!

 

[Red Banks]

I got my 7 in 1, 8 quart instant pot today. I ended up getting 30% off plus another 20% off of $149.00. I am ready to cook!

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I bet you bought it at a store that starts with a K!

 

[Red Banks]

View attachment 1359258 View attachment 1359257 View attachment 1359256 View attachment 1359255 View attachment 1359254 View attachment 1359253 View attachment 1359252 View attachment 1359246 Tried to get good pics of the new chicks (these are Alchemist Farm). They sure seem spunky for just traveling the full length of the country. I've ordered from them before and never had a sick chick. Lighting is as natural as I can get for now. @RedBanks

One more thing...... darn I forgot how it works, oh.....another way I tell is when they start to get a tail. If they are slow feathering, pullets will have a tail and cockerels won't.
Look at the pick of 3 & 4 sideways facing each other. You can see a tail on the pullet and not on the cockerel (3).

 

[Red Banks]

Did you only order 4?? I'm pretty sure Red Banks is a lady. TOM

Thanks Tom! LOL