International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[Thomas Bright]

Thank you Tom! I have a garden every year but not that big! I grow all my plants from heirloom seeds and my garden is organic. This is last years garden.

That is beautiful, absolutely gorgeous!!! I grow spuds and corn my wife grows all the pretty stuff.

 

[marchick]

That is beautiful, absolutely gorgeous!!! I grow spuds and corn my wife grows all the pretty stuff.

Thank you! I do the garden. I do potatoes and sweet potatoes. I also do 3 rows of tomatoes on a trellis on the other side of the garden. Strawberries, blackberries, Raspberries, blueberries, peaches, apricots, apples, pears, grapes walnuts and mulberry. The fruit is all over the property. Anywhere there was a spot for them.

 

[marchick]

sorry for your losses. that's horrible.

Thank you! I had planned on hatching from that pen this year. I just put the 3 BC hens in there with him. About 3 weeks ago. If they hatch any Blcm. Then we know it wasn't long enough. It was very disappointing for sure.

 

[marchick]

I have 4 eggs over the last 3 days from the BC pen. The three eggs are from the same hen.

 

[chickengr]

That is beautiful, absolutely gorgeous!!! I grow spuds and corn my wife grows all the pretty stuff.

how much corn should we grow for about 30 chickens?

 

[Thomas Bright]

how much corn should we grow for about 30 chickens?

I do not grow corn for my chickens. I grow corn for me. I like corn, I eat it. I eat chicken too!
Feed corn for chickens is a totally different variety. TOM

 

[Punkybrewster]

Waylon was my rooster that went lame and never recovered. I gathered every single egg after culling him. The cockerels were culled down to 2 that I kept. One with a high tail and one with a low one. Their copper is not very good. And compared to my other line, they are junk. BUT so far no white.
That is why I keep them.
Waylon had no white.

My roosters from this other line are beautiful and correct except for their white underfluff and tail feather.

I am hoping that breeding and hard culling I will be able to get some nice ones and eventually get that white out of the flock.

 

[chickengr]

I do not grow corn for my chickens. I grow corn for me. I like corn, I eat it. I eat chicken too!
Feed corn for chickens is a totally different variety. TOM

I want to grow green oaxacan corn, both for me and chickens. they do eat green corn.

 

[chickengr]

Waylon was my rooster that went lame and never recovered. I gathered every single egg after culling him. The cockerels were culled down to 2 that I kept. One with a high tail and one with a low one. Their copper is not very good. And compared to my other line, they are junk. BUT so far no white.
That is why I keep them.
Waylon had no white.

My roosters from this other line are beautiful and correct except for their white underfluff and tail feather.

I am hoping that breeding and hard culling I will be able to get some nice ones and eventually get that white out of the flock.

what is wrong with their copper? I cannot imagine bcm without parasitic white - that is what we have here.

 

[Punkybrewster]

Their copper is just not good. Not a nice copper color and not a lot of it. I will try to remember to get pictures tomorrow.

I will show a comparison of my 2 rooster lines.

If my bad looking roosters with no white begin to show any white, then they will certainly be culled. They are not worth keeping but their father had none so I am hoping they will not either. We will see. They are about 1 year old now.

Parasitic white is very common. There are some breeders here in the U.S who do not have it in their flock.
Or so I am led to believe. I could be wrong on that. Maybe no one talks about it?