International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[wrathsfarm]

here photos of my first chick solid black Solo ,he is lazy doesn t want to take photos ,he prefer do some thing else .sunbathing
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guess I have to wait till another time when he is willing to collaborate
chooks man

He is a Black Marans? I like the name Solo. It looks like it fits him..

 

[Tstraub]

Sorry to hear about your chooks, my friend. Myself and @Tstraub have similar weather being just a few hours away from each other. I'm finding the new place is a lot windier location which makes the cold worse.
"Cuts right thru you to the bone" is a term we use here.

Bad for the chooks.

We get similar weather but mine isn’t quite as cold and I don’t get any of that lake effect snow that Michigan is known for. We do have some bad days around here but the snow doesn’t generally last too long.

 

[wrathsfarm]

We get similar weather but mine isn’t quite as cold and I don’t get any of that lake effect snow that Michigan is known for. We do have some bad days around here but the snow doesn’t generally last too long.

Yes that is true. I like not living 'up north' anymore. I was 45 mins south of the Mac bridge in the snowbelt for over 20 years. Place to be if you like the snow... and wind..... and cold.
Like it better here as far as snow don't last as long.

 

[wrathsfarm]

@chickengr here's the windbreaks I threw together with what's laying around quick. Gets them out the wind and keeps the feed dry while free ranging. Not much to look at but functional.
I'm going to build a couple proper ones. (Think 3 sided box with a roof and small doorway so no one can get trapped in there.)

Please excuse the junk. Property was a foreclosure, so inherited someone else's mess to cleanup. Plus side is everything back by the field is scrap metal + the van I've rounded up to take to scrap yard #chicken money$$

I'm facing South.

They get under the boat and dust bathe. Tarp is wrapped the whole front half

 

[rolohman]

We finally came out of our first few freezing days and nights and are up in the 50's with sunshine. So here are a couple pictures of Attila - He's about 9-10 weeks old. Hasn't crowed much in the past week but we definitely caught him three days in a row the week before. He is so iridescent! Hopefully the pictures show of a little bit of the green and purple glints that show up in his black feathers. There are a couple white feathers on his wing tips that you can't see here - they only show up when he is stretching. I presume those are considered a bad thing? Just curious - we like him the way he is.

 

[Tstraub]

We finally came out of our first few freezing days and nights and are up in the 50's with sunshine. So here are a couple pictures of Attila - He's about 9-10 weeks old. Hasn't crowed much in the past week but we definitely caught him three days in a row the week before. He is so iridescent! Hopefully the pictures show of a little bit of the green and purple glints that show up in his black feathers. There are a couple white feathers on his wing tips that you can't see here - they only show up when he is stretching. I presume those are considered a bad thing? Just curious - we like him the way he is.

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He will most likely shed those white feathers and they will be replaced with black as he grows.

 

[Chooks man]

He will most likely shed those white feathers and they will be replaced with black as he grows.

yes you are correct
chooks man

 

[chickengr]

good job love the set up need to plant some trees around it for the future .
you guys have the cold and we have the heat.I already lost 5 chooks to the heat last weeks ,2 of my good breeding chunky hens .the new place is not fullt set up yet for them .chooks man

sorry for your losses.

can you water soil somewhere in the shade? my chickens love to lay down in wet dirt and that help them with heat. I also leave plastic containers with water so that they can get in.

 

[Chooks man]

sorry for your losses.

can you water soil somewhere in the shade? my chickens love to lay down in wet dirt and that help them with heat. I also leave plastic containers with water so that they can get in.

it is new farm so I haven t fegured all the movment of the wind yet ,all the pens where al right except the one up hill had a lot of shade banana trees and water plus wet ground but the hot wind was moving through it ,. that pen is not in use any more . only Bamboo forest pens are used now ,have enough of them , plus we are having some wet wheather now after a very long time of drought .
chooks man

 

[Bantambird]

Banana trees???? That is tropical weather, I couldn't deal with perpetual bugs like that. The one boon of my climate, no outdoor bugs for 6 months out of the year, only 3 months of bug season.