International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[marchick]

The splash is perfect! The BC pullet is lovely. And I hardly ever intercede with a sick/injured chicken. I don't want to keep an unhealthy chicken in my flock. Sometimes we just need to give them time.

Thank you, As you can see I still have them all. I just go back and forth to rehome or not to rehome. That is the million dollar question!

 

[Red Banks]

Thank you, As you can see I still have them all. I just go back and forth to rehome or not to rehome. That is the million dollar question!

Just wait.... it only costs a little chicken feed. The one thing I have learned from BYC is people agonize over this stuff way too much. Don't worry, things work out or they don't but worrying doesn't change anything except your health. I think when it is time to rehome you will be certain. That is one of the reasons I don't start looking at young chickens. I probably sound very cold.

 

[marchick]

Just wait.... it only costs a little chicken feed. The one thing I have learned from BYC is people agonize over this stuff way too much. Don't worry, things work out or they don't but worrying doesn't change anything except your health. I think when it is time to rehome you will be certain. That is one of the reasons I don't start looking at young chickens. I probably sound very cold.

You don't sound cold. I am stressing over this! I think I will start with rehoming any hen that lays a lighter egg. Maybe I can narrow down to about the best 8 hens and a rooster. So I don't lose the whole line till I can decide what I am going to do. If I can do that I can keep them in a smaller pen. Even if just for layers.

 

[chickengr]

Remember that little cockeral with sour crop. I treated him and purged him. Give him oil and massaged him. Nothing helped much. It would keep filling back up and was pendulous. It was so big! I finally gave up after about a month. I think there was something plugged down going into the gizzard and was not alowing crop to drain. I never got around to doing the dirty task. It should have been done about 3 weeks ago but with my accident and health issues. My husband said to me isn't that the little rooster that was so bad. He looks fine to me! Yep it was! His crop is completely normal! Wow! This is him now. Also look at the legs on my hen! Is it me or do they not look as yellow! I am liking this BC pullet also.View attachment 1398202 View attachment 1398203 View attachment 1398208 View attachment 1398209 View attachment 1398212

all of them are nice!

 

[KF0002]

Remember that little cockeral with sour crop. I treated him and purged him. Give him oil and massaged him. Nothing helped much. It would keep filling back up and was pendulous. It was so big! I finally gave up after about a month. I think there was something plugged down going into the gizzard and was not alowing crop to drain. I never got around to doing the dirty task. It should have been done about 3 weeks ago but with my accident and health issues. My husband said to me isn't that the little rooster that was so bad. He looks fine to me! Yep it was! His crop is completely normal! Wow! This is him now. Also look at the legs on my hen! Is it me or do they not look as yellow! I am liking this BC pullet also.View attachment 1398202 View attachment 1398203 View attachment 1398208 View attachment 1398209 View attachment 1398212

Glad to hear your cockerel is doing okay! Chickens are resilient and a lot of times will do better if we back off and let them take care of themselves when something like that is going on. I had a hen with a big bloated crop a few weeks ago. She looked miserable and looked to have sour crop because her crop never went down and it was huge. I just let her be and decided that if she got worse I would have my husband cull her. She seems to be doing okay now and is laying so she's fine.

The little splash still looks to have a yellow beak indicating her skin is yellow. Try cleaning her legs off with water and taking pictures of her legs against a white background.

The black copper pullet is stunning! Her type and topline is fantastic! You definitely need to hang into her!!

 

[chickengr]

I have a broody hen and chicks hatching in 6 days. Any chance I can get her to raise them?

a friend of mine does that all the time. he puts chicks under a broody at night. but they have to be same age.

 

[KF0002]

I have a broody hen and chicks hatching in 6 days. Any chance I can get her to raise them?

Give her the chicks at night as soon as they come out if the incubator. Dont forget to take out the eggs she is sitting on when you put the chicks under her. Overnight she will imprint on them and they will imprint on her. As they are under her she will cluck to them and they will learn her sounds and she is less likely to reject them that way. I do it all the time. I have a broody game hen that I gave chicks to and the rooster is still in the pen with her. He helps take care of the babies and shows them food. He is very gentle to them.

 

[KF0002]

Is anyone else a member of the Marans of America club? I'm having trouble logging in, i can't seem to figure out how to use my membership.

I never got around to joining that club. A bunch of Marans breeders I talk to on facebook decided to all get together and start a new club and its been a good group so far. Its called The Marans Club and you can join on the website.

 

[Red Banks]

You don't sound cold. I am stressing over this! I think I will start with rehoming any hen that lays a lighter egg. Maybe I can narrow down to about the best 8 hens and a rooster. So I don't lose the whole line till I can decide what I am going to do. If I can do that I can keep them in a smaller pen. Even if just for layers.

Chooks man said, don't just hatch the darkest eggs. My new batch of pullets are laying much darker eggs than the hens they came from. Work with what you have, give them a chance. The eggs in this picture are all my little pullet eggs. I am going to boil them and put them in with my pickled beets. You can see they are dark.... they didn't come from super dark eggs. Little Peddler Brenda said, dark eggs are from inbreeding. I can see that from this very first batch of eggs I hatched. I know that the RB pullet that Kfelton0002 has will also lay a dark egg. Chooks man would also tell you to work with what you have.

 

[Magnolia Hill]

Kayla, Can you send me a link to that club you talked about. I looked but didn't have much luck. Is it a facebook type club? Thank you.