International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[Chooks man]

I think I have 2 extended black hens. they look like ravens, no trace of any other colour.

not all the black hens.
to know if a black hen is true extended black ,you need to hatch chicks from her with any rooster ,all her chicks should be black . cockerels and pullets . Extended black is the most dominant in all the varieties.
mate your hens to your new silver cuckoo and see what they throw out .nice to new ,maybe you havea hidden treasure .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

I'm pretty sure I know who is carrying the autosomal red. There's a blue birchen hen who has a slightly wrong color on her breast and a bit of straw at the bottom of her hackle. Sad part is she has a complete pattern otherwise. I'm betting half her offspring are awesome and half are poorly colored.

don t breed from her except if she very dark eggs .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

I'm pretty sure I know who is carrying the autosomal red. There's a blue birchen hen who has a slightly wrong color on her breast and a bit of straw at the bottom of her hackle. Sad part is she has a complete pattern otherwise. I'm betting half her offspring are awesome and half are poorly colored.

your birchen rooster has a complete pattern , his daughter will have a complete hackle marking regardless what hen is mated too ,all black as long as not Extended black .

mate his best daughter back to him and you ll end up with a well coloured birchen cockerels and pullets .
back crossing is the key when you have a good looking rooster or good looking hen.


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[Chooks man]

dominant white marans cockerel .he is gorgeous need a little depth on his chest and his wattles has a folding .

love the way he carry him self .tall and proud .gentle as they can get .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Faultless comb ang gorgeous copper BC cockerel

correctly marked BCM cockerel shoulder

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[Chooks man]

silver Blue { Birchen } pullet .

she only has silver around her neck pure quality silver need more quantity .

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[Chooks man]

added today this feeding station to this coop .so they feed stay out of the weather .
the Black hen is not impressed by my handy work .
they are loving it .

need to add more nest boxes .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

silver salmon pullet .she is getting bigger and colourful . love her pattern and her body type .

one of my future top breeder .

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[Chooks man]

her my Solid Blue cockerel from far .gorgeous looking pattern .
I don t know who had a first idea to add copper hackle and saddle to them . mad chose .
I think the body blue give a gorgeous contrast to a dark Blue Hackle /back and saddle .

i ll perfect this variety . this generation are a cross to a BC ,they are E/ER .
have both cockerels and pullets .need to mate them together for a few generation and select well . hope all goes well .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

her a dark cuckoo marans Silver/gold . complete pattern and faultless body type .true rectangular . lush hackle and lancet ,he ll be helpful to me to breed a silver black and silver Blue .
one fault .bad one ,his 2 main tail feather are too long and are white . the rest of his tail all good shape ,size and angle .
he is well put together .I ll deal with a white feathers later .body type and body pattern are price less to me at this stage of breeding . just putting a new flock together from scratch . so I m not going to dismiss any good and correct trait .

what a lovely specimen .

chooks man