Lavender marans project

[Doublete]

Questions:

Picking up lavender marans chicks...
looking to continue the marans quality with the lavender color.
I am of the understanding they were creating using bcm over a lav orp.

Soooo.. do I wait til they grow up... pick the best of the group... cross them together and then cross the best of THEM to a black (birchen or copper?) marans. I could pick a bcm with the least amount of copper...

 

[sylviethecochin]

I can't recommend much on line-breeding or anything of that sort, but I do know that it's often quite hard to breed leakage out of a line. If you can get a Black Marans (no copper) that's your best bet. If not, a Cuckoo Marans should carry the genetics you want, and barring is really easy to breed out of a line.