International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[Red Banks]

I tell you how to get a black Birchen from your birds .play some music to them when they are incubating .hahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
I though you gave up on them and got ready of your silver cuckoo hens . they where the key to your project plus few years of breeding and selecting .

chooks man

One more year and I will get serious about Birchen.

 

[Chooks man]

Another thing I look at is a flat chest. I know that is NOT going to give me the rectangular body.

flat chest with a long back will give you triangular body type .

Deep /Wide chest with a long back will give you rectangular body shape

Deep /Wide chest with short back will give you a boxy body type

Flat chest with a short back will give you bad body type marans no way out .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

One more year and I will get serious about Birchen.

by the time you get serious about the Birchen ,I ll have obtained my export license . so I can send you some fertile eggs to start your line .

chooks man

by the way my first BCM fertile egg went to Lebanon today .friend of mine was going back to visit his family .
he said those dark eggs will be famous in the middle east around Easter . peoples don t need to tint them . they are naturally tinted .

well happy about it .
they are flying as I m writing

 

[Red Banks]

by the time you get serious about the Birchen ,I ll have obtained my export license . so I can send you some fertile eggs to start your line .

chooks man

by the way my first BCM fertile egg went to Lebanon today .friend of mine was going back to visit his family .
he said those dark eggs will be famous in the middle east around Easter . peoples don t need to tint them . they are naturally tinted .

well happy about it .
they are flying as I m writing

I am going to hold you to that promise, you will have to throw some silver cuckoos, Hercules type, BCM and others in with them!

 

[chickengr]

by the time you get serious about the Birchen ,I ll have obtained my export license . so I can send you some fertile eggs to start your line .

chooks man

by the way my first BCM fertile egg went to Lebanon today .friend of mine was going back to visit his family .
he said those dark eggs will be famous in the middle east around Easter . peoples don t need to tint them . they are naturally tinted .

well happy about it .
they are flying as I m writing

do you have any friends travelling to athens?

 

[Red Banks]

Going to rehome Antonio's son. I just don't see anything I want.

 

[KF0002]

they are stunning .
lovely body type .look well chunky to me .
very good improvement .

love the color of the Autumn my self .

chooks man

Thanks Chooks man! Now if only they would start laying so I can put some eggs in the incubator. We have one pen ready for single mating, going to build a few more 5x5 pens for the rest.

I love the colors and cooler temps of autumn too. Its a nice break from the heat of summer.

 

[KF0002]

Going to rehome Antonio's son. I just don't see anything I want.

Are you sure? I swear I was close to culling my FRF cockerel when he was around that age, he was hideous. But as he got older he looked better. I would hang on to him for a bit. Your cockerel looks leaps and bounds better than mine did at that age.

 

[KF0002]

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very proud cockerel . Black tail red marans . very ,very rare ,
Red Storm .he think he prettier than Elvis ,,the Blue Wheaten rooster next door to him .
he knows he is rare and handsome . not shy showing in off .

good on him .

chooks man

He is gorgeous!! I wish I had the room for more Marans colors!

 

[KF0002]

I love to know how much they really weight ? Kg? or Pound Ib ? please .
those 2 blue pullets will give you huge solid cockerels 100% .

if the weight of the marans pullet is around 2,5Kg or 5 Ib at 6 month old it is a sign she is going to be big girls . future mama hen for sure .

chooks man

I have a digital gram scale that meaures in different units of measurement for postage (pounds, ounces, kg, grams, etc.) I have to get a battery for it but I can try to weigh them on it. They're big hefty girls.