International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[chickengr]

a secret my friend is to keep breeding ,year in ,year out .and each year fix some thing and try to breed some thing out .
if you do that one day you ll have gorgeous chooks line .faultless ,well bred .not just look good for the show to please the judges .

chooks man

thank you for all this precious information.

I don't think I will ever show birds but I would like to have quality birds. I can see that I already have some quality marans: egg colour and shape, mass is improving, most of them have orange eyes, cockerels nice coloured (not perfect), some pullets with nice hackles,etc.

who can stop me now?

 

[Red Banks]

how many chicks RedBank ?

chooks man

10 so far. Today is day 21. They are strong and vigorous.

 

[Red Banks]

here some photos of Tobambezi ( Zambezi X Toby ) young rooster 0ne week shy from his first birth day .
Big solid rooster . his comb let me down . a little bigger and has a double point at the end .
I can live with that .
his colors are only getting better every day .still on the dark side .
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this is a body type I want to breed true in all my marans cockerels all varieties ..
ELEGANCE and VIGOR
couple weeks to go and the eggs from his pen will go to the incubator . he is penned with his half sister ( all sired by my Zambezi ) line breeding half sibling method of breeding .
nothing will be added to this line tell the end of my farming days .
a same pullets will be mated to Norambezi ( his half brother) and Massai Mara etc.....
the pullets come from 6 hens and the cockerel are from 3 hens .

I ll cross this pullets to Djabel s sons K2 and Everest to form other parallel line

years of work is going to be put in to form the SUBLIME BCM LINE.

I do not buy chooks any more but I make them by they 1000 all marans

chooks man

Beautiful! Isn't Norambezi the one I like so much?

 

[Red Banks]

thank you .

I m well pleased with my chooks and where I m now .with 150 breeders for this season I can t be more satisfied .

life is good here down under . LA VIE EST BELLE

chooks man

La Vie Est Belle is the perfume that I wear, it is my signature. That and cowboy boots and hat!

 

[Red Banks]

4 so far?

11!

 

[dvoice]

11!

How many did you start with?

 

[Red Banks]

How many did you start with?

I started with 25, they are still going. I only see 1 or 2 that have not pipped. Very excited! They are all strong and active. Isn't a sleeping chick one of the most terrifying things you have ever seen?

 

[Red Banks]

thank you .

I m well pleased with my chooks and where I m now .with 150 breeders for this season I can t be more satisfied .

life is good here down under . LA VIE EST BELLE

chooks man

Life is what we make it.... with joy, gratitude and love. Life is beautiful!

 

[shepherd6567]

here some photos of Tobambezi ( Zambezi X Toby ) young rooster 0ne week shy from his first birth day .
Big solid rooster . his comb let me down . a little bigger and has a double point at the end .
I can live with that .
his colors are only getting better every day .still on the dark side .
View attachment 1192193 View attachment 1192198 View attachment 1192200
this is a body type I want to breed true in all my marans cockerels all varieties ..
ELEGANCE and VIGOR
couple weeks to go and the eggs from his pen will go to the incubator . he is penned with his half sister ( all sired by my Zambezi ) line breeding half sibling method of breeding .
nothing will be added to this line tell the end of my farming days .
a same pullets will be mated to Norambezi ( his half brother) and Massai Mara etc.....
the pullets come from 6 hens and the cockerel are from 3 hens .

I ll cross this pullets to Djabel s sons K2 and Everest to form other parallel line

years of work is going to be put in to form the SUBLIME BCM LINE.

I do not buy chooks any more but I make them by they 1000 all marans

chooks man

Tombezi is phenomenal looking bird. Great body and posture.

 

[Chooks man]

Tombezi is phenomenal looking bird. Great body and posture.

that why I like him a lot .
I see a lot goofy marans rooster and I don t like that .I wanted to breed the classical robust farm chooks ,strong and Elegant .with a great body and posture .

select a well proportioned hen /hens if you want to breed Elegance .

chooks man