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I've 6 Marans left after selling a few locally. I think I have only one roo in the bunch. My Blue Copper is the one who throws chicks with a sometimes copper spot on the head,
so I'm surprised you got one of these from my Black Copper. My previous hatch was all about the Delawares and W/BW Ameraucanas...this hatch should give me more Marans
to work with.
My Blue Copper was very dark at start, when I emailed pics of her to my breeder, she said those are the ones that that have the good dark lacing. She has thrown a few that are lighter,
but I mostly get dark chicks out of her, and honestly can not always tell them 100% from the Black Coppers at first. As they feather out they will be more dark gray than black though.
This is my favorite pullet from her, color wise. Her copper does not show up very well in this pic, but she has more than mama. This shot was taken when she was 19 weeks old and she's
not quite the butterball she looks here (I think she'd just done the feather shake thing) but she has pretty good size, coloring/lacing and lighter eyes, which is more difficult to achieve in
da blues, in my experience.
Unfortunately, she has sparse leg feathering. I like her egg color though, (she laid the spherical eggs in my previous post) and she has a good comb...so I'm going to work with her.
