International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[chickengr]

RedBank to make the thing easier for you I m going to tell you a double yolk laying pullets is not a breeder for sure .

all you flock are fine . So that pullets in genetically incorrect .
Selective breeding . if she doesn t perform than is not a true breeder.

catch her and put her with your layer flock . Don t take risk .

chooks man

I didn't read this post before replying to @RedBanks . I have noticed that my mutts lay double yolkers. they come from a junk breeding place (roo +hen=chick). I have also noticed that those birds don't live long, 1 year and they start having health issues. they lay even more than egg laying hybrids. I will never get them again.

 

[chickengr]

working with many different varieties within a breed is easier ( because is a same standard , different colors ) than working with with many breed ( different standard ,confusing )

now I understand why you say to stick to 1 breed only.

I can keep my araucanas as they are mixed colours anyway. they will be roo+hen=chicks and they will be sold to help me economically. people here call them green egg layers without tail, so there is no need to follow any standard. I will be able to concentrate to the marans.

 

[Braxton Brigade]

@Chooks man. @RedBanks

Sorry about that guys. I tried to post it with the pictures but they wouldn't load. I'm going to try and do it again in a new post, perhaps that will re load the images?

 

[Braxton Brigade]

Try #2.

Basically what I said in my first try was how awesome I felt, this is a pullet out of the first eggs I ever hatched!

The pullet is 20-21 weeks old, too melanistic and has a bent comb. But it seems like she will fill out a bit more in the next few months, she does have a long back like a few of her relatives.


The below picture is a bit older, she has stretched out a bit since haha.


Her lovely first egg.

 

[chickengr]

Try #2.

Basically what I said in my first try was how awesome I felt, this is a pullet out of the first eggs I ever hatched!

The pullet is 20-21 weeks old, too melanistic and has a bent comb. But it seems like she will fill out a bit more in the next few months, she does have a long back like a few of her relatives.


The below picture is a bit older, she has stretched out a bit since haha.


Her lovely first egg.

she can stay in a layer's flock. my RIP hen's first egg was like that and later she laid no 5-6. there were 4-5 eggs per week.

 

[Braxton Brigade]

she can stay in a layer's flock. my RIP hen's first egg was like that and later she laid no 5-6. there were 4-5 eggs per week.

I intend to keep her and her sister.

I expect her to lay a nice egg once they even out, she was hatched out of a 7 on the egg scale.

Her parents are Greenfire Farms roo X Beverly Davis hens, we will see if we can find a use for her in my breeding programs.

If anything she and her sister will be a awesome layer and could be used in a olive egger program with some of my lesser quality BBS Ameraucana cockerels.

I am not a huge fan of OE's (there are a lot around here) but they are usually pretty cool looking, hatch well and are large egg layers.

 

[Chooks man]

I like what I see. especially her long flat back .great asset.ONLY her problem is the access of the black ,could be work out .
nice solid head,
nice body type long not square .
nice feathered shanks correct length .and color .
nice deep chest will fill up wen she get older
her comb is not bent to me BUT S shape.

Her egg is well marked with a red spot great sign .the color are there ,they need time to spread evenly .

I see on her more quality than Fault.( look at my BCM rooster Wallace he mom was Black hens .he is well colored - color from the rooster not from the hen.

chooks man

 

[Braxton Brigade]

I like what I see. especially her long flat back .great asset.ONLY her problem is the access of the black ,could be work out .
nice solid head,
nice body type long not square .
nice feathered shanks correct length .and color .
nice deep chest will fill up wen she get older
her comb is not bent to me BUT S shape.

Her egg is well marked with a red spot great sign .the color are there ,they need time to spread evenly .

I see on her more quality than Fault.( look at my BCM rooster Wallace he mom was Black hens .he is well colored - color from the rooster not from the hen.

chooks man

I can agree with what you see, especially on the "s" shape rather than bent, I was lacking the words to explain that earlier haha.

My big thing is waiting for her to mature, her sister and her are just getting their shape to them (if that makes sense).

I expect her to mature more after she has reached 7-9 months old, that is when all my girls (regardless of breed) have started looking like a proper hen.

I hope to breed a nice looking guy with her one day, she would be at least a year old by the time I raise a proper Marans coq.

Her eggs will be well sized by then, perfect for hatching I suppose.

 

[chickengr]

this was luna's and marco's mother:


all the girls from her line have bent comb.if I understood well, luna and her future chicks will have bent comb as well.

she lived for 14 months only. I think her maximum weight was 2,7 kg. she had tapeworms and before she died her weight was 1,6 kg. she had some respiratory issue as a chick so I didn't expect her to live for long. she was given to me at age of 6-7 week.

luna is a tough girl. I am waiting for her comb to show how much bent it will be. I can see the back of her comb is already bent a bit.

 

[Chooks man]

I can agree with what you see, especially on the "s" shape rather than bent, I was lacking the words to explain that earlier haha.

My big thing is waiting for her to mature, her sister and her are just getting their shape to them (if that makes sense).

I expect her to mature more after she has reached 7-9 months old, that is when all my girls (regardless of breed) have started looking like a proper hen.

I hope to breed a nice looking guy with her one day, she would be at least a year old by the time I raise a proper Marans coq.

Her eggs will be well sized by then, perfect for hatching I suppose.

yeah I agree with you .the best age to breed from the pullets is around or after 9 months old.

at that age we can see a full mature pullet .

chooks man