International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[Chooks man]

from the first hatch ,they are about over 3 weeks now .I have some really great ones .
2 Columbian cockerels .great body type
1 columbian pullets .small body type
1 Blue copper pullets .great type,
2 white { Recessive } pullets ,one of them is great type ,the other is smaller.
1 white { Recessive} cockerels good type
2 Wheaten pullets good type and Early feathering type too .
2 Wheaten cockerels .one is good the other is small and loaded with a parasitic red .
1 Golden Salmon pullets .good type and Early feathering too
1 Blue Wheaten pullet .good type and Early feathering too .

5 cockerels and 8 pullets .all healthy and happy .going to be moved out of they broody
going to a larger pen, still indoor .too hot for them outside for the moment .

well happy

chooks man

 

[chickengr]

sound great .around 6 square meters by chooks .a lot of space .
if you want to have a green grace or vegies for them ,you can ,just need to design your hens houses with 2 run one for a summer 6 months rotation.
grow stuff in one run for 6 months than let the chooks get access to it . grow stuff in the other run for 6 months and do a same thing .
it is better for them to have 3 green square metres than 6 metres dry .

I ll hep you design them .just tell me the location of your selected place for the chooks .how long and wide .facing witch way east or west ,any tree around .some photos will be better for me to see the landscape .

chooks man

unfortunately nothing grows with this heat. the green run would be plain dirt within 3 days.

they will have vegetables from my garden. it will be more work for me. we have to cover our vegetable gardens with the shadow cloth if we want to have veggies in summer.

I plan to reserve 18x20 m (x2) and make a big pen 18x1,5 m. each pen will be 3x1,5 m in a 20x3 plot. I might not be able to make all 12 pens at once but I will start with 6.

the north part is slightly up the hill. no trees at all but will be planted in each run. I will put some pallets for shadow and hiding in case of need.

I don't have any photo but it is bare mediterranean reddish land.

 

[chickengr]

you are looking after them very well . they should be happy .most chooks they can only dream about what you are giving to your chooks .

what do you give them to worm them ?

chooks man

I mostly worm them with natural staff mixed with teir feed: wormwood tea, garlic, pumpkin seeds, chilly peppers, from time to time blue stone and vinegar in water and if they get overloaded with worms I give them pills for dogs that contain praziquantel and febendazole. there is no chicken wormer besides levamisole but that never killed any worm in my flock. my nightmare are tapeworms. cats and wild birds spread them.

 

[chickengr]

from the first hatch ,they are about over 3 weeks now .I have some really great ones .
2 Columbian cockerels .great body type
1 columbian pullets .small body type
1 Blue copper pullets .great type,
2 white { Recessive } pullets ,one of them is great type ,the other is smaller.
1 white { Recessive} cockerels good type
2 Wheaten pullets good type and Early feathering type too .
2 Wheaten cockerels .one is good the other is small and loaded with a parasitic red .
1 Golden Salmon pullets .good type and Early feathering too
1 Blue Wheaten pullet .good type and Early feathering too .

5 cockerels and 8 pullets .all healthy and happy .going to be moved out of they broody
going to a larger pen, still indoor .too hot for them outside for the moment .

well happy

chooks man

congrats!

my marans hens are 2 years old now. some of them used to be small but got bigger after 1,5 year. only 1 remained small. the only good thing about her is egg colour. she will be my future olive egger breeder. I do not discard any marans so far.

 

[Chooks man]

unfortunately nothing grows with this heat. the green run would be plain dirt within 3 days.

they will have vegetables from my garden. it will be more work for me. we have to cover our vegetable gardens with the shadow cloth if we want to have veggies in summer.

I plan to reserve 18x20 m (x2) and make a big pen 18x1,5 m. each pen will be 3x1,5 m in a 20x3 plot. I might not be able to make all 12 pens at once but I will start with 6.

the north part is slightly up the hill. no trees at all but will be planted in each run. I will put some pallets for shadow and hiding in case of need.

I don't have any photo but it is bare mediterranean reddish land.

sound good .
you can do a lot with those pen when finished .a lot of space for a chooks ,

plant grape vines in they run ,so they can have a lot of shade .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

I mostly worm them with natural staff mixed with teir feed: wormwood tea, garlic, pumpkin seeds, chilly peppers, from time to time blue stone and vinegar in water and if they get overloaded with worms I give them pills for dogs that contain praziquantel and febendazole. there is no chicken wormer besides levamisole but that never killed any worm in my flock. my nightmare are tapeworms. cats and wild birds spread them.

if the tapeworms are caused by cats and wild birds .why not cover the top of the pens so ,nothing can go in the chooks pens .
if you cover the top with a chooks mesh ,grow some grape vine over them . lot of shade and no access for a cat and wild birds .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

congrats!

my marans hens are 2 years old now. some of them used to be small but got bigger after 1,5 year. only 1 remained small. the only good thing about her is egg colour. she will be my future olive egger breeder. I do not discard any marans so far.

I hope so .I don t like the late maturing chooks ,they make it very hard for me when time for selection .they never ready .

I like the chicks that hatch chunky and ready to go .
I had ones a BC cockerel start crowing { not really but making a funny noise } at 11 days old .was so funny .my friends still ask about him ,they thing he was cool .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

View attachment 1640444My cockerel, Giovanni, at 3 and a half months old

can you tell me please his story .where did you get him? he is well bred for sure .he come from a good stock .I can tell .

chooks man

 

[HenHouse4Life]

can you tell me please his story .where did you get him? he is well bred for sure .he come from a good stock .I can tell .

chooks man

He came from some friends who had chicks around the same time I had already ordered some. They allowed me to pick a few and he is the only cockerel I ended up with. This spring I have 4 BCM and 4 blues on order from a Washington state breeder.

 

[Chooks man]

I have been shopping today .
bought .
4 geese ,mum and dad and they 2 girls .they will be delivered tomorrow morning to my friend farm .
Cream Leg Bar pullets and cockerels .6 weeks old ,over 20 of them ,they will be pick up to be delivered to me when they are a little older .4 weeks more .good score .from my old stock .my friend Deb is well pleased I m buying stock from her .because couple years ago she was the one buying stock from me . I m lucky man I have a lot peoples willing to help me build my stock really quick . OZ peoples are really friendly .love been around them .
Maremma female pup ,8 weeks old . picking her up this Wednesday .
7 muscovey duck .5 girls and 2 boys 16 weeks old .will be delivered this weeks .

not a bad day at all .

need some turkey .hard to find .

chooks man