International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[Chooks man]

I would be afraid of the sea if I lived so close to it, too, not just of flooding from the mountains. Can they get tsunami waves in the Mediterranean? I would also live halfway up the mountain, but not right next to a creek. There are too many violent spring streams when the snow melts.

do you have a bush fire up the montain ?
guess when we live far from the city in the nature there is always something to watch for .c est la vie
chooks man

 

[BlueTheBrahma]

By talking about all these disasters you guys are making me much happier about living in England. Just Rain and occasionally we hope for snow to justify the day off.

 

[Bantambird]

do you have a bush fire up the montain ?
guess when we live far from the city in the nature there is always something to watch for .c est la vie
chooks man

Yes, Montana has a fire season usually from July through September, most of the native plants like occasional fire. The natives used prescribed burns and select thinning to keep forest and prairie happy, and if they aren't done then mother nature will send a burn when there's too much fuel. When the city folks make us stop select thinning the forest and shut down all logging, that's when the forests burn real bad or get nasty beetle kill.

 

[BlueTheBrahma]

Picked up the Chicks my dad’s friend hatched out for me, four marans, and a welsummer pullet. I sent two eggs from either of my marans hens, and all hatched, two blue and two black. The Marans are still in the mixed layers run, so there’s a chance that they are not pure, though a couple look promising. I will know when they develop ground colour, because pullets sired by the other two cocks will be silver not copper.

BCM1: pullet? My biggest candidate for being a cross. Yellow legs, like her mother. This could mean two things, either it is a cross from either other cock, as they both have yellow legs (the tail looks quite long so I’m thinking Welsummer), or the BCM roo carries a copy of yellow legs (it is recessive isn’t it?). However, it has red rust in its wings. Would a silver bird still be able to have red rust if it carried autosomal red?

 

[BlueTheBrahma]

BCM2: pullet? defiantly pure because I know it must be from the BCM with yellow legs as the other two must be from the BlCM, so can only get pink legs from the father. Body long but maybe lacking in depth.
P.S, they’re 3/4 weeks old.

 

[BlueTheBrahma]

BlCM1: pullet? Pink legs. Well feathered. Nice, full Breast like her mother, feels chunky to hold already. I feel like it’s pure bred just by the body type.

 

[BlueTheBrahma]

BlCM2: cockerel? really weak as a hatching, had to live by itself inside for a few weeks but seems to have picked up, but it’s growth is very stunted, half the size as the others, looks like it’s half its age. Can’t tell if those legs are going to turn pink or yellow, think it might be pink. Don’t know a lot about chick types but I think the body is nice for how stunted it is.

Extras:

The Wellie pullet

Boots, the Brahma chick the silkies hatched, I got no marans from that hatch in the end, in fact, I got no more chicks after the two I posted when they hatched. (15ish weeks old, as a chick he always seemed like a cockerel but I’m not so sure anymore.)

 

[Chooks man]

Picked up the Chicks my dad’s friend hatched out for me, four marans, and a welsummer pullet. I sent two eggs from either of my marans hens, and all hatched, two blue and two black. The Marans are still in the mixed layers run, so there’s a chance that they are not pure, though a couple look promising. I will know when they develop ground colour, because pullets sired by the other two cocks will be silver not copper.View attachment 3612739View attachment 3612740BCM1: pullet? My biggest candidate for being a cross. Yellow legs, like her mother. This could mean two things, either it is a cross from either other cock, as they both have yellow legs (the tail looks quite long so I’m thinking Welsummer), or the BCM roo carries a copy of yellow legs (it is recessive isn’t it?). However, it has red rust in its wings. Would a silver bird still be able to have red rust if it carried autosomal red?

hard to tell . you have to let do more growing and see . will be lovely if they are pure marans excelent body type ,but when I look at the welsummer chicks you posted ,they have a similar body type and feathering .
chooks man

 

[marchick]

I ended up with 4 BC 2 Blcm pullets from the first hatch. They are 10 weeks old today.

 

[Chooks man]

@marchick this pullet you have bred is sublime .high quality .what a lovely long body type. deep chest and great stance .
you have done great .
chooks man