International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[marchick]

My husband loves chickens as much as I do so he is very tolerant and builds me any coop, pen, brooder, etc I need.

My husband has built a few but then for like forever and a day. I hear but I built you the pens. It gets him out of anything else! No more pens for me. Lol

 

[juliejohnson805]

Well y’all said you like pics
Thinking we have 1 roo and 2 pullets. They are 10 weeks old. Thoughts?

 

[Red Banks]

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.

@Hensndoes
This is my original post when I sexed your chicks. I was looking for a post about my lost hen so I could try to figure out how long she has been on those eggs. So.... is #3 a cockerel?

 

[Red Banks]

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Well y’all said you like pics
Thinking we have 1 roo and 2 pullets. They are 10 weeks old. Thoughts?

I like the nice chunky bodies.

 

[Red Banks]

@Magnolia Hill

This was written by Curtis Hale and is on the MOAC website. Excellent information.

Some of my tips that I have collected over the years are:
1) a high tail on a cockerel can see improvements in his sons if the hens has a low tail.
2) if you want larger hens breeding a your largest cockerel to average sized hens won't work and will produce average sized hens, but breeding your largest hen will make for larger hens (even if not breed to your largest cockerel).
3) In a pairing it is more important that the cockerel's color be perfect than for the hen's color to be perfect
4) in a pairing it is more important for a hen's type to be perfect than for a cockerel's type to be perfect
5) combs tend to be passed from the hen in a pairing
6) A short shanked hen and a long shanked cockerel produce correct proportions while two short shanked birds will
have offspring that are dumpy and two long shanked birds will have offspring that are too lanky and upright (even if
the parent are with in what is acceptable just on the bottom or top of the spectrum)
7) White under coats on the BCM can be carried by the hen, but only show up in the cockerel
8) Dark Egg color can be restored successful in a line that has lost it with use of either a cockerel or a hen (both
carry all the genes).
Well that is a start for discussion. The best thing really to do is to pedigree your flock and keep good notes. Your
Marans may be built on a different portion of the available gene pool than someone else's flock and what they find in
their flock may not hold true for your flock.
Curtis Hale

 

[Red Banks]

I am missing a hen. One of my originals. I tried looking for feathers but this is a big property. Hate to lose them.

I found my post about my missing hen. It was around the 10th or 11th. That means she was been on the eggs for about 10 to 12 days. I didn't move her yet because I didn't know how long she had been there. Will move her in the morning. Now just have to pray nothing happens to her tonight. She is in a very hard to reach place full of sticker vines. No problem for a predator...... just me!

 

[KF0002]

Same here 10 years married met in 7th grade, dating by 9th, kid by graduation and married by 20. It's hasn't always been roses but we have seemed to make it work. We are a very old fashioned couple.

We are old fashioned too. Ain't nothing wrong with that. And you were right in a previous post that you'll do anything to make the person you love happy.. even if you grumble and gripe the whole time! Lol. My husband hates my bantams! Why is beyond me. But when I asked him to build me a bantam coop he says "whatever you want babe!"

 

[marchick]

Same here 10 years married met in 7th grade, dating by 9th, kid by graduation and married by 20. It's hasn't always been roses but we have seemed to make it work. We are a very old fashioned couple.

My husband and I met when I was in 8th grade. He was my brothers best friend. We started dating summer after my 9th grade year. Got married December of my senior year in high school. I Graduated and we partied too much and 8 months later. Guess what! We have been married 30 years now. These days not many can say they have been with the same person there whole life.

 

[Hensndoes]

@Hensndoes
This is my original post when I sexed your chicks. I was looking for a post about my lost hen so I could try to figure out how long she has been on those eggs. So.... is #3 a cockerel?

Oh yeah. And I was questioning #2 a week or so ago. I'll have to have another look at them later. 1 is so slow to feather I'm still not sure there either. I can tell them apart because 3 and 4 have a feather on their middle toe.

 

[Red Banks]

Well, I'm sure hoping my chicken isn't a hermaphrodite..

Not that there is anything wrong with that.