International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[Chooks man]

He is attractive but in real life, he looks long and thin compared to the other 2. His body narrows a lot towards the tail.

good to know ,still his body length is impressive . let see when he mature .
chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

These are also line #3 cockerels.
There are 2 of them
They are 2 months younger but from the same breeder flock.

#1
Already growing in the white fluff. Ugh...

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I can see that .all ready showing at this young stage .
shame because love every thing about him .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

#2

Smaller and less copper.

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any white on him . the back of his comb is very bad .
my lease favorite .
chooks man

 

[Punkybrewster]

Here is a pullet from this line.

forget about a white for the moment .
I m interested on his gorgeous copper and complete body pattern .

my friend you can not focus only on they faults ,you have to be able to see where they exile too .what they best trait/traits .

chooks man

Thank you for this. I sometimes feel like I am going backwards by introducing Marans with the white as a fault.

I guess i am really just trading high tails fault for white fault.

Which is the lesser of two evils? Haha

Here is a picture of one of the lovely pullets from this line

I do like these cockerels a lot.

 

[Chooks man]

Here is a pullet from this line.
Thank you for this. I sometimes feel like I am going backwards by introducing Marans with the white as a fault.

I guess i am really just trading high tails fault for white fault.

Which is the lesser of two evils? Haha

Here is a picture of one of the lovely pullets from this line

I do like these cockerels a lot.

are these photos of a same hen ?

my friend to breed great marans lines ,you need to have very wide genes pool .other wise you will run into breeding depression before even you go far ,

now you have most of marans traits ,in all in one birds but split between lot of them . don t forget they are not line .they are chooks you bought so you can breed your line from them . but still they are some one else line . never forget that .

the way I see it now you have to breed your lines of BCM from these birds . lot breeding ,lot chicks to hatch ,lot of culling ,in the end after few generation of breeding you will see your work start to shine and your lines start taking shape .will take years and years .
your birds are worthy to work with . yeah they have faults . my chooks have faults too . so what .
we are breeding them not showing them . it is not how they look what mater to us .what really mater is how they reproduce . great birds does not guaranty to reproduce them selves .

chooks man
chooks man

 

[Punkybrewster]

any white on him . the back of his comb is very bad .
my lease favorite .
chooks man

Aha. I went back and looked. Very bad in the back for sure.

 

[Punkybrewster]

are these photos of a same hen ?

my friend to breed great marans lines ,you need to have very wide genes pool .other wise you will run into breeding depression before even you go far ,

now you have most of marans traits ,in all in one birds but split between lot of them . don t forget they are not line .they are chooks you bought so you can breed your line from them . but still they are some one else line . never forget that .

the way I see it now you have to breed your lines of BCM from these birds . lot breeding ,lot chicks to hatch ,lot of culling ,in the end after few generation of breeding you will see your work start to shine and your lines start taking shape .will take years and years .
your birds are worthy to work with . yeah they have faults . my chooks have faults too . so what .
we are breeding them not showing them . it is not how they look what mater to us .what really mater is how they reproduce . great birds does not guaranty to reproduce them selves .

chooks man
chooks man

Yes. It is all the same bird from from line#3.

I will get pictures of some from line #1+2

 

[Punkybrewster]

2 are broody and most are in the nest boxes but here are some pictures I could get.

Line #1
Dark eyed Carol.

Line #1
Judith. She lays a nice big, round egg. The darkest.

These 2 are all I have from line #1.

 

[Punkybrewster]

I will get line #2 when they come out of the boxes.

 

[Punkybrewster]

Line #2
There are 6 pullets a year old next month.
2 are broody with one sitting on eggs.

Each picture is a different pullet.