International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[Sussex19]

Hey @Chooks man very sorry for the late reply.
Here are the pics of my two golden cuckoo pullets, and also another pic of the black copper, because she is filling out rather nicely!

 

[Chooks man]

Hey @Chooks man very sorry for the late reply.
Here are the pics of my two golden cuckoo pullets, and also another pic of the black copper, because she is filling out rather nicely!
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wow they are very nice sublime body type .long back and nice coppery hackle .love they tails angle too .
some one has done a great work breeding them .love to see them when fully grown .
I will make sure to send you some fertile eggs or cockerel to breed them too .love to see the colour of they eggs too in the future .

they are well bred for sure . Bravo to the breeder for breeding them and Bravo to you for raising them with care ,they look very healthy and well looked after .
keep posting photos of them as they keep growing .
chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Hey @Chooks man very sorry for the late reply.
Here are the pics of my two golden cuckoo pullets, and also another pic of the black copper, because she is filling out rather nicely!
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the BCM pullet is looking stunning . do you have cockerel to breed with her when she is ready?
she is well bred too ,
chooks man

 

[Sussex19]

wow they are very nice sublime body type .long back and nice coppery hackle .love they tails angle too .
some one has done a great work breeding them .love to see them when fully grown .
I will make sure to send you some fertile eggs or cockerel to breed them too .love to see the colour of they eggs too in the future .

I'm glad they are looking good!
The two cuckoo girls are a little on the smaller side, but I think they are starting to catch up a bit more.
Apparently they were a long term project for the lady in Tassie, but she couldn't get them to breed completely pure, and has now given up on selling them as purebreds.
Which I think is a real pity.
I don't quite know how I am going to fit in breeding them, but I really want to! So I will hopefully find a way.
They were sold as just having averagely dark eggs, but I too am excited to see what they have.
I think Marans might be my new obsession

 

[Sussex19]

the BCM pullet is looking stunning . do you have cockerel to breed with her when she is ready?
she is well bred too ,
chooks man

I do not have any BC cockerels; the only Marans cockerels I've got at all is their brothers, and they are all shades of cuckoo.
(they certainly did not seem to be breeding 100% pure!)
I would have got some photos of them as well as I am quite curious about their colours, but the camera battery went flat.

 

[marchick]

I have a new project planned. Since my birds can't free range. I am going to make grow beds in each pen out of scrap lumber and hardware cloth. Basically 2x4 frame covered with hardware cloth then planted. As it grows through the wire they can eat the grass but not dig it up. Healthy plus saves on feed. I switched to organic feed over a year ago. Also healthier for them but harder on the pockets. They are worth it though.

 

[marchick]

Agree with you the temperament is very important when breeding domestic animals . We don t want to be hurt by them .
I have 72 roosters in totals only one of them(Blackgen) in nasty . I can not get ready of him he is a pure import line , I have to breed from him first or find a replacement . A friend of mine Fiona said she has one pure import cockerel from me . Hope he is better than mine .
Chooks man

I must have culled my nasty cockerel. The two I kept haven't attacked me. The nasty one always attacked from behind so we didn't know which one.

 

[Chooks man]

I do not have any BC cockerels; the only Marans cockerels I've got at all is their brothers, and they are all shades of cuckoo.
(they certainly did not seem to be breeding 100% pure!)
I would have got some photos of them as well as I am quite curious about their colours, but the camera battery went flat.

looking forward to see they photos .
cuckoo marans if it is pure will breed true .they just haven t reach they purity stage .
the reason they still throwing Black copper is because the breeding rooster they are working with is a dark cuckoo not a double barred pure cuckoo .
the cuckoo strain Silver or Golden a hen is always dark cuckoo . mean she only have a singler cuckoo gene B/b+( B stand for a barring or a cuckoo gene) but the rooster if pure will have a double factor .2 barring/cukoo genes ( B/B) if he is not a pure than he will only have a single barring/cuckoo gene like a hen.
if we breed a dark cuckoo rooster to a cuckoo hen/hens we will have 25%pure cuckoo ( double factor B/B) and they will be cockerels ,the other 75% will all be dark cuckoos (B/b+ pullets and cockerels)
here a photos of one of my dark cuckoo rooster Rashad he is Silver/Golden F2.

I will be breeding him back to a Black copper to keep the dark eggs genes .I will only get 50% of his progeny cuckoo they will be all dark cuckoo but with better copper
this guy hatched from very dark egg .his mother is a Blue copper marans and his father is F1 Dark cuckoo
chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

I have a new project planned. Since my birds can't free range. I am going to make grow beds in each pen out of scrap lumber and hardware cloth. Basically 2x4 frame covered with hardware cloth then planted. As it grows through the wire they can eat the grass but not dig it up. Healthy plus saves on feed. I switched to organic feed over a year ago. Also healthier for them but harder on the pockets. They are worth it though.

great idea my friend .any thing to safe money is great
chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

I must have culled my nasty cockerel. The two I kept haven't attacked me. The nasty one always attacked from behind so we didn't know which one.

yes I think you culled him . you did well
chooks man