International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[KF0002]

I know this subject has come up a few times, but how much is an acceptable amount of white on black and blue copper chicks? Should I be striving for absolutely no white on the face? Or is a little okay? Is no white at all on the wings considered ideal? So far all of my chicks have some degree of white on the wings as chicks when they hatch, some more so than others. @Chooks man

When culling through chicks from Cooper I must be careful to weed through any excess parasitic white, as he has some white under his hackles, and a couple small white feathers on his foot I noticed. I want to nip the parasitic white in the bud.

 

[littlepeeps81]

kfelton0002, I bought the Hovabator used off of eBay. I hope that it will hold out for me. I had seen a lot of good reviews for the Genesis. Your eggs are beautiful! Especially those two marans eggs to the right

. Very, very lovely!!

 

[KF0002]

kfelton0002, I bought the Hovabator used off of eBay. I hope that it will hold out for me. I had seen a lot of good reviews for the Genesis. Your eggs are beautiful! Especially those two marans eggs to the right

. Very, very lovely!!

Thank you! I am happy with the color of my BCMs' eggs, and my Marans pullets lay the largest eggs of any of my other breeds I have.

I really like my Genesis incubator. I've had it for around 2 years and it has held up well. For a styrofoam incubator, the Genesis can't be beat. My neighbor has 3 Genesis (she is a newbie hatch-a-holic, thanks to my influence

) and she loves them as well. She gets great hatch rates in hers.

 

[Allisha]

Didn't know where to post this, but I am extremely interested in buying some fertilized BCM eggs from good stock this spring, so if anyone could lead me to someone, or offer to sell me some, that would be great!

 

[BlixbabyFarm]

Hey I have a question about BCM eggs I'm hoping some one here has an answer or thought....Ruby was hatched August of last year (2016) and has started laying this spring, for about 3 weeks. She gets Purina 16% layer feed, access to oyster shell, water, occasional treats like dried mealworms/corn/strawberry tops, grapes, plain greek yogurt-as well as free ranging time most every day. I have other hens that get the same everything, Ruby is my only BCM hen.

My question is: do BCMs normally have dark raised speckles? I've looked this up on here and they say its calcium deposits on the shell and could be due to tress or poor diet? I guess I don't see how that could be since like i said all my hens get the same everything and none of them has ever laid an abnormal egg and ALL of Ruby's eggs look this way. Is this just normal for a BCM? I do have 2 roosters, they'd be the only source of "stress" I can think of. But i've never noticed Ruby being more piked on or anything. I don't really see any hen being "picked" on honestly.

Just wondering if thats just the way BCM eggs are or not....

thanks for any help you can give!!

 

[Bantambird]

here are some of my Marans eggs along with some turkey and cream legbar eggs. Most are speckled too.

 

[chicken crazy11]

Does anyone know of black copper Maran hens for sale?

 

[chicken crazy11]

What does LP mean

 

[Double Barrel]

What does LP mean

LP = Little Peddler

May want to keep an eye on classifieds here. Facebook has several good chicken sales pages...maybe craigslist

 

[Chooks man]

I know this subject has come up a few times, but how much is an acceptable amount of white on black and blue copper chicks? Should I be striving for absolutely no white on the face? Or is a little okay? Is no white at all on the wings considered ideal? So far all of my chicks have some degree of white on the wings as chicks when they hatch, some more so than others. @Chooks man

When culling through chicks from Cooper I must be careful to weed through any excess parasitic white, as he has some white under his hackles, and a couple small white feathers on his foot I noticed. I want to nip the parasitic white in the bud.

parasitic white on the BCM and BLCM strain are comment and international .
to breed it out is going to take a while . you have to go step by step .

minimum white on the chicks hatch down is better not all black neither Penguiny .
a dots around the beak and the eyes are the hardest to bred out but they are not problematic as too match white on the wing and the chest

to correct the white fluff on the future progeny you have to mate your rooster ( with a white fluff) you need a hen with a pure dark under fluff NO grey

here some photos of the proper BCM chicks hatch down



I m finding out this type of chicks are free from a parasitic white and they have a rich coppery hackles. they are free from the white lacing normally you see in the infected BCM chicks .

chooks man