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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.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/40145_dsc09838_copy.jpg
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.
ummmmmmmmm......LOVE HER!!!!!!!!!
It's my understanding (Thanks to Amazondoc....Thank you Ione!!!!
) that the darker blues with crisp lacing are preferred for the overall color of the blues. Hummmmmm.......now don't get me wrong I love the darker blues but I also love the lighter blues, looks as though I will just have to keep working on some token lighter blues with awesome lacing just because I can't stand to see them left out.
BTW: Lovely eggs you put in the 'bator!!!!! You go girl! I gotta say there is just a great feeling about putting eggs in the bator that came from your own birds.
