International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[littlepeeps81]

Morning all. I hatched another F1 chick yesterday. A little pullet I believe! She has a black beak and darker feet. Her little comb is to dark; I suspect she will be overmelanized like her mother. I was hoping Zorro would give Hazel's chicks some color on their hackle. Will have to see. Pros are Cinnamon has less white flakes on her face than her mother, and Zorro put feathers on her shanks. Hazel (her mother) has little to no shank feathering. However, there are a few little white feathers on her middle toe, so not good there. Onyx defiantly is producing a better chick all around than Hazel. Also was able to hatch one silver cuckoo marans chick! So excited about adding another variety to my little flock. I think maybe a cockerel, but chooks man can correct me if I am wrong. Named him Radar.

 

[Chooks man]

Scheherazade . BCM hen 3 years old . Shiraz true sister .
going to Tobambezi pen .
she has the right type of copper and extra too .best way to correct tobambezi Mahogany type copper .
she has a coppery ears tufts . what I need .
no parasitic white .

this trio .Tobambezi and his 2 hens Shiraz and Scheherazade will be bred specifically for the absence of any parasitic white without loosing the body type and marking .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

@littlepeeps81
she is gorgeous .I like here hatch down marking . I can see a little white on her toe . shouldn t be problem . give her some time and see what happen .

love the name .
chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

@littlepeeps81
yes he is a boy . early feathering type
love the color of his eyes .lovely blue ( bright orange when fully mature )

love the photos .they are artistic . BRAVO

chooks man

 

[littlepeeps81]

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Shiraz . 3 years old BCM hen daughter of Walker over sahara
she is selected to go into Tobambezi pen .she is his grand aunt
she has a gorgeous body type . pure black plumage / no parasitic white ( the white you see is D Earth powder from the nest box) orange eyes .great well colored hackle .

I m expecting 100% no parasitic white from they progeny and great body type
she ll correct the comb .

chooks man

Shiraz is very lovely chooks man!

 

[littlepeeps81]

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Scheherazade . BCM hen 3 years old . Shiraz true sister .
going to Tobambezi pen .
she has the right type of copper and extra too .best way to correct tobambezi Mahogany type copper .
she has a coppery ears tufts . what I need .
no parasitic white .

this trio .Tobambezi and his 2 hens Shiraz and Scheherazade will be bred specifically for the absence of any parasitic white without loosing the body type and marking .

chooks man

Thanks for teaching us with pictures of your chooks. Scheherazade is gorgeous!! Wow, wow those copper ear tufts. She is very special.

 

[littlepeeps81]

@littlepeeps81
she is gorgeous .I like here hatch down marking . I can see a little white on her toe . shouldn t be problem . give her some time and see what happen .

love the name .
chooks man

Thank you chooks man. This little chick boasts a little more white that Onyx's chick. So time will tell I suppose.

 

[littlepeeps81]

@littlepeeps81
yes he is a boy . early feathering type
love the color of his eyes .lovely blue ( bright orange when fully mature )

love the photos .they are artistic . BRAVO

chooks man

Looking forward to seeing Radar grow. Thank you, I love to take pictures!!! Especially of animals and little kids.

 

[Jen-Brd]

Look up April Howington on Facebook. She has Bev Davis's line of birds and she shows eggs and birds. Her egg color is very nice. She is in Texas, but I'm not sure what area. You can join the Marans Central group on Facebook also, it is a buy, sale, auction page. There are a lot of good Marans breeders in Texas.

I will! Thanks for the advise

 

[KF0002]

They are a real challenge aren't they! If I wasn't trying to perfect them there isn't a breed I like better. I love the mumbling and talking. The way they follow me all over the yard and come running when they see me (all food motivated).

I have one hen that lays a very long egg, so long you can't close the egg carton but it is not a double yolk. Should I hatch an odd egg like that?

Odd shaped eggs may not hatch as well but it would be worth a shot.

If the hen has exceptional egg color and other good qualities, egg shape can can be corrected each generation as with anything else. One of my blue copper pullets lays a longer shaped egg, similar in shape to her splash copper mother but improved upon in color. I will be setting her eggs anyway because she is a lovely pullet. Her eggs aren't abnormally long, but more slender looking in comparison to my black copper eggs.