International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[KF0002]

Hi there . if this rooster is the sire of this cockerel than you have no worries about type. what you have to worry about is the Black shoulder , Absence of the Autossomal Red .he should have a rich red shoulder gather than that he is stunning . I like a lot his hackle great copper and not too many flame ( almost nine) and I like a lot the color of his shanks . his eyes are sublime . if his son hasn t got a red shoulder when adult, than you have to correct that by mating him to a hen with a coppery chest and less sheen . chest color and the red shoulder both are controlled by the Autossomal Red Ar . not sex linked like the hackle and the lancets. chooks man

Yeah the breeder told me they weren't "perfect" and that they were a work in progress. He just offered to send me some to get me started so I could start working with some decent Marans. The birds I have now are a far cry better than the garbage I hatched out in December and January from "breeders". We live and learn. Haha! I will post pics of my cockerel once he grows up some more. My pullets from this line (Bev Davis x Little Peddler) are all dark chested best I can tell. However, my pullet from the Greenfire Farm x Little Peddler line has some copper in her chest. She is the one in the front.

 

[KF0002]

Oh and if I go all "radio silent" and seem to disappear for the next.. oh say 5 months it is because I am starting my last semester of the ADN (RN) program and will likely be studying my brains out. But hopefully I can still pop in from time to time. In between exams and bouts of hysteria. Lol. The life of a nursing student is never a boring one. I work full time as an LPN as well and I have a 3 year old toddler and hundreds of chickens. Never a dull moment.

 

[Red Banks]

Quote: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Thank goodness for that! Vive la difference!

 

[Red Banks]

Oh and if I go all "radio silent" and seem to disappear for the next.. oh say 5 months it is because I am starting my last semester of the ADN (RN) program and will likely be studying my brains out. But hopefully I can still pop in from time to time. In between exams and bouts of hysteria. Lol. The life of a nursing student is never a boring one. I work full time as an LPN as well and I have a 3 year old toddler and hundreds of chickens. Never a dull moment.

I can hardly keep up! I don't know how you do it! Can't wait to see more pics of your chooks!

 

[Red Banks]

Quote: I had mossy pullets from the GF/LP lines. Those are the Gabby sisters. None of them showing any mossyness now.

 

[Red Banks]

Quote: There is a woman on the Bielefelder thread that has naked necks. She has crossed them with Biels. Beautiful! Her name is DesertChic.

 

[chickengr]

There is a woman on the Bielefelder thread that has naked necks. She has crossed them with Biels. Beautiful! Her name is DesertChic.

she is on the naked neck thread too. her birds are gorgeous.

@Chooks man you are not the only person who like naked necks. when I got my first chickens in november 2014 I wanted NNs only but the season was over and I found a few mutts only. at that time I didn't know anything about the chicken breeds. I thought there had been fully feathered and naked neck chickens

I already have NNs with my bcm boy, so hurry up if you want to create marneck chickens, lol.

 

[chickengr]

Oh and if I go all "radio silent" and seem to disappear for the next.. oh say 5 months it is because I am starting my last semester of the ADN (RN) program and will likely be studying my brains out. But hopefully I can still pop in from time to time. In between exams and bouts of hysteria. Lol. The life of a nursing student is never a boring one. I work full time as an LPN as well and I have a 3 year old toddler and hundreds of chickens. Never a dull moment.

good luck! I feel dizzy reading your post, how do you feel with all that?

 

[Chooks man]

I like the way you pack your eggs.

But I still believe the post man has some thing to do with it. down here we have a sub contractor ,and they are rough buggers .

maybe the Canadian are gentle people .

All the best

chooks man

 

[dvoice]

Actually I've seen Canadians posting pics of how their eggs arrived with some being broken but that was usually due to poor packaging.
I like the way you pack your eggs.

But I still believe the post man has some thing to do with it. down here we have a sub contractor ,and they are rough buggers .

maybe the Canadian are gentle people .

All the best

chooks man