International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[Chooks man]

Chooksman I am worried! There are so many of them. How will I ever be able to choose from them? They seem to be all fairly nice. The cockerels where easy because not very many BC cockerels. How am I going to pick from 40 or so pullets? Getting pictures and keeping track of them even with leg bands. It is proving a challenge.

don t panic .one pullet at time . how many you are planing to keep?
chooks man

 

[marchick]

don t panic .one pullet at time . how many you are planing to keep?
chooks man

I will pick out my breeders. The rest I will keep most for my laying flock. Plus they will work as a backup if I lose any breeders through the harsh winter. Black Jack didn't like me banding him or his girls. Now he is coming to challenge me.

 

[Chooks man]

I have 8 hens laying every other day. Nice color the lighter eggs do hatch more often. I will take 3 # 7 over 5 #4 That is just my preference I give most of my eggs to the Senior Center when I am not hatching TOM

#3 egg colour is not classify marans by SOP standard . minimum #4 .
yes for sure the lighter eggs will hatch better ,but if we want those lighter eggs we should breed RIR or some thing else .
we do not make the SOP neither the genetic make up of marans chooks .but we have to breed them to they full glory . what the SOP call for .
best marans hen is a hen with a correct conformation .lay 180 eggs a year majority of those egg should be #6 . balanced hen
no extreme . extreme always produce problems .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

I will pick out my breeders. The rest I will keep most for my laying flock. Plus they will work as a backup if I lose any breeders through the harsh winter. Black Jack didn't like me banding him or his girls. Now he is coming to challenge me.

that bad new .black jack start to challenge you .some thing is not alright .
chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

I will pick out my breeders. The rest I will keep most for my laying flock. Plus they will work as a backup if I lose any breeders through the harsh winter. Black Jack didn't like me banding him or his girls. Now he is coming to challenge me.

if he start to challenge now .put him in a cage or pen with ace . don t leave him with a pullets .will get worst .

chooks man

 

[marchick]

#3 egg colour is not classify marans by SOP standard . minimum #4 .
yes for sure the lighter eggs will hatch better ,but if we want those lighter eggs we should breed RIR or some thing else .
we do not make the SOP neither the genetic make up of marans chooks .but we have to breed them to they full glory . what the SOP call for .
best marans hen is a hen with a correct conformation .lay 180 eggs a year majority of those egg should be #6 . balanced hen
no extreme . extreme always produce problems .

chooks man

So aiming for #8 would cause problems?

 

[marchick]

if he start to challenge now .put him in a cage or pen with ace . don t leave him with a pullets .will get worst .

chooks man

Ace and Black Jack have started fighting. Should I move all 4 cockerels? This all started after I banded them. It stirred things up.

 

[Chooks man]

So aiming for #8 would cause problems?

6 and 7 are the best . 8 going extreme 9 is very extreme .
hens who lay 8 and 9 normally are not a good layer . but show people like to show off .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Ace and Black Jack have started fighting. Should I move all 4 cockerels?

yes move all the 4 cockerels together ,they will nothing to fight for .no girls no fight .
chooks man

 

[marchick]

yes move all the 4 cockerels together ,they will nothing to fight for .no girls no fight .
chooks man

I will move them tonight after dark.