International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[Smokerbill]

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chooks man

Photo 2 looks like an impressive rooster!

 

[Chooks man]

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I can t wait till all my flock are in a same place .
happy to see they photos .
chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Photo 2 looks like an impressive rooster!

he is a good looking rooster .son of ConanThe Barbarian .
he inherited his father comb but his mother size .
chooks man

 

[Smokerbill]

@Chooks man , if I understand correctly, Marans eggs have a dark color because they move slower through the hen. So does that mean their egg laying cycle is different, like one egg ever 48 hours or so?

 

[Chooks man]

@Chooks man , if I understand correctly, Marans eggs have a dark color because they move slower through the hen. So does that mean their egg laying cycle is different, like one egg ever 48 hours or so?

marans hen lay dark eggs because she has glands producing colored pigmentation to cover the egg shell . more pigmentation are produced by the hen more darker the egg will become .normaly sllow layer hens lay very dark eggs , plus genes too .
all the chooks breed who lay tintted eggs have a glands to produce pigmentation ,just they don t produce enough to make the eggs dark .
more older marans hen become less pigmentation she will produce and her eggs will become lighter in color .
chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Nikita and the roosters
Blackgen BCM rooster in a front he try to fight her all the time .

Blackgen look good for his age 4 years old now. I will breed from him this year .
chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Conan The Barbarian BLCM ,he produced lot of gorgeous progeny .not sure if I breed from him this season . prefer working with his son s and daughters .
he look s good

CTB on the left 4 years old next to him his son splash copper , than Shamrock the dark cuckoo rooster the other 3 copper rooster are CTB son s , so he got 4 sons with him 1 splash ,2 BLC and 1 BC
chooks man

 

[LaFleche]

I think the type we’re referencing is vCJD, originating from BSE (mad cow disease), I think it was mostly a British thing. I’m pretty sure the origins were feeding processed and infected beef and bone to cattle, giving them ‘mad cow disease’, which when fed to people could cause Jacobs’s. That’s why you don’t see any British beef or dairy anywhere outside of the isles, no one trusts it anymore, though there have been no cases in people for many years.

It was the deceased sheep gone crazy they shreddered and fed to the cows that led to the bovine variation which was finally able to infect humans as well.

But other than that you are totally right

 

[LaFleche]

some photos of the chooks from Sydney farm beed sent to me by troy .we are trying to organize a transport for some of them to bring up here ,plus the roosters .just need to build some pens for them first next couple of weeks .
they look healthy and good too .
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chooks man

Love their body type!

 

[Chooks man]

Love their body type!

agre with you they have a correct marans body type ,took me few crosses to achieve that
now I eed to fix the dark egg genes and split my flock into many different families to avoid imbreeding .
I m pleased you like they body type .you in Europe see a lot marans ,
chooks man