International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[Chooks man]

Trying to get good pics of the ladies of Jake, but the sun is already down and lighting isn't good. I'll try later!

love her type .long back and her pointed thin tail .
the comb is not that good .

better photos please .

choos man

 

[Chooks man]

here White Storm X Scany ( birchen) baby cockerel . he has too many things going at ones .


he is different than the rest .
he has a silver hackle and a cream chest .
love to see how he color up .

love his eyes and his comb.

choos man

 

[Red Banks]

here White Storm X Scany ( birchen) baby cockerel . he has too many things going at ones .


he is different than the rest .
he has a silver hackle and a cream chest .
love to see how he color up .

love his eyes and his comb.

choos man

You will have to keep us posted with pics.

 

[Flock Master64]

here White Storm X Scany ( birchen) baby cockerel . he has too many things going at ones .


he is different than the rest .
he has a silver hackle and a cream chest .
love to see how he color up .

love his eyes and his comb.

choos man

he looks amazing

 

[Chooks man]

he looks amazing

thank you .
it is not just a look .it is a hidden genes he carries that interest me .Co and Db . they are not on the right order yet .but when they get they produce the Marans Hermine ( Columbian Marans with less hackle marking .
some of his sister are fully buff .they just inherited the Db from they father .not the Co from they mother .
I m suspected the Birchen hens carries the e+ too . not sure yet .need more chicks ..

chooks man

 

[KF0002]

Wow he is sublime except his comb . Now that I have seen most of your BCM rooster .I come to this conclusion . all of them have a super large comb .NO good especially with a bad weather you guys have . YOU need to start thinking of bringing the size of the comb down . Marans should have medium size comb . to do that .select the hens with a smaller and strait comb NOT large and floppy . chooks man

I dont own this rooster, he belongs to the breeder in Louisiana I aquired stock from. But I do agree on the large comb. This rooster is the sire to Cooper (my LA cockerel). The breeder sent those pics to me.

 

[KF0002]

never give you hens corn . make them fat and lazy layer .

in a winter give them sunflower seed .20g /chooks .great for them .keep them worm and make they feathers oily SO they stay dried .
cat food is a great idea .extra protein .

you are doing well .just no corn please .

chooks man

You can tell corn is chicken junk food. Thats the first grain in a feed mix they eat. They love it! We do have it in small portions in our feed mix. We cant use feeders because they only want to eat the corn. So we feed only what they need each day.

 

[Chooks man]

You will have to keep us posted with pics.

Yeah I will just too much building is going on .
they are growing so fast I can t catch up with a building .

here few photos I just took of the little one .
the first group are 5 weeks old .they need to be out in a couple of weeks .waiting for the heat spell to go away


he is a Silver Wheaten cuckoo double barred .

Black one is a F4 Birchen cockerel Viking3 son of Viking2 ( F3 ) over his grand mother Scandinavia a true F4 inbred . over 87% of Scandinavia genes.


group 3 . almost 3 weeks of age ..

nice BCM pullet on the left . early feathering type Zambezi X Tabarine ( Toby) she is huge .

one thing I m really happy with is the eye color of the chicks almost all of them have a Blue/green eyes .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

You can tell corn is chicken junk food. Thats the first grain in a feed mix they eat. They love it! We do have it in small portions in our feed mix. We cant use feeders because they only want to eat the corn. So we feed only what they need each day.

ration feeding is a great method .
mix grain with corn is not problem .like you said ,the corn is in a small portion .

how many time you feed a day ?

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

I dont own this rooster, he belongs to the breeder in Louisiana I aquired stock from. But I do agree on the large comb. This rooster is the sire to Cooper (my LA cockerel). The breeder sent those pics to me.

how is Copper comb compare to his sire ?

chooks man