International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[KF0002]

Teasing me.

I'm sure she would appreciate your admiration. She was walking around posing today just begging to get her picture taken. I am really liking my blue copper grow outs this year. I'll have to share some with you someday.

 

[KF0002]

So sorry! I hope he gets better soon. In chickens everything can and will happen.

Thank you! Ain't that the truth! My husband assures me he will be fine, but I have my doubts. It looks like a pretty serious injury. If he starts acting poorly I will cull him, but I'm hoping he pulls through. I have never seen an injury like that before in my years of chicken keeping, but my husband has and says the birds he has seen injured like that have healed up and done fine.

 

[Red Banks]

Thank you, I hope for a few good ones. I have noticed most of the Blue Coppers are cockerals. Most of my splash are pullets. At least that's what I see at this point. Time will tell.

According to Chooks man and Kfelton0002 you don't want a Splash rooster. You want Splash hens so you are going in the right direction.

 

[Red Banks]

Thank you! Ain't that the truth! My husband assures me he will be fine, but I have my doubts. It looks like a pretty serious injury. If he starts acting poorly I will cull him, but I'm hoping he pulls through. I have never seen an injury like that before in my years of chicken keeping, but my husband has and says the birds he has seen injured like that have healed up and done fine.

When I first got chickens I had a Splash hen that I loved. Just looking at her was a joy, she was so pretty. I named her Paloma. Paloma was limping one day and when I picked her up she was ripped from one end to the other, skin completely torn in a long gash, muscles and flesh exposed. She ate, she limped around and she was mending. After awhile there was a wide swatch of dead hard skin and I thought this can't heal like it is so I cut it off. Never done anything like that before, don't know if I could again but Paloma got well. Blue lotion and time. Unfortunately Paloma is gone. A different predator attack.

 

[Red Banks]

I'm the crazy chicken lady at work, and of course I get tagged in every chicken related facebook post that anyone comes across. I amuse non-chicken people with all my chicken talk like they've never ever walked outside, and when I talk about chickens to my sister her eyes glaze over like "who cares???" lol So yeah it's nice to have a place to come to and chat with others that enjoy chickens as much as I do. You'll never meet better people than chicken people! You come over to visit chicken friends and we'll send you home with a new hen or pullet just because you thought she was pretty (or several), just ask my neighbor.

The only thing my friends want to hear about concerning my chickens is do I have any eggs. They like my eggs! That's alright. I don't want to hear detailed information about their interests either.

 

[Magnolia Hill]

Busy and then some! But I love them, they bring me a lot of joy! There is always chicken drama and its amusing, but not always! Like today for example. I have one black copper cockerel from my blue copper line that has beautiful color and type so far.. just gorgeous tail angle and mass, all of it! I admire him everyday! Well today a gamecock grabbed him by the neck when the cockerel got too close at feeding time and as the cockerel struggled to get away the gamecock pulled a HUGE chunk of skin off the back of his neck! I mean actual flesh.. feathers, skin, everything! It was so horrible!! I hope he heals up, even if it will leave him permanently scarred. He is in a pen to himself so he can hopefully recover. I didn't have the heart to cull him. Poor little guy..

Dang, that's no good.

 

[Magnolia Hill]

I'm sure she would appreciate your admiration. She was walking around posing today just begging to get her picture taken. I am really liking my blue copper grow outs this year. I'll have to share some with you someday.

They really do look good, you should be proud.

 

[KF0002]

When I first got chickens I had a Splash hen that I loved. Just looking at her was a joy, she was so pretty. I named her Paloma. Paloma was limping one day and when I picked her up she was ripped from one end to the other, skin completely torn in a long gash, muscles and flesh exposed. She ate, she limped around and she was mending. After awhile there was a wide swatch of dead hard skin and I thought this can't heal like it is so I cut it off. Never done anything like that before, don't know if I could again but Paloma got well. Blue lotion and time. Unfortunately Paloma is gone. A different predator attack.
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Bless her heart. I think I remember you telling me about that before. That really gives me hope he will get better. I know chickens are tough and resilient. What I worry about are flies blowing the wound and infection so I will keep antiseptic handy and he will get antibiotics if necessary. I decided to separate him from the rest because chickens love blood. That may sound gruesome but its the truth. When we dub or butcher birds and there is blood on the ground, they pick and pick at the blood like its a delicasy. When one chicken is bloody, they all converge and eat at the wound like piranhas. I felt he would be safer in solitary. Lol

 

[KF0002]

They really do look good, you should be proud.

Thank you! I am very proud.

 

[KF0002]

@RedBanks it'll be my luck I go through all this worry and nurse him to get him healed and he ends up being a cull anyway. Lol