They are suppose to be Blue Coppers not Splash. I have seen the relatives of the birds and they are all blue. This is making me angry. I have other problems to deal with these birds than them getting black spots when they are not suppose to. Makes me wonder if I should be taking on Marans at all. These are the only 3 Blues I have right now and I just got more eggs from these birds relatives. I seem to be going more backwards than forwards. I have also spent a lot of money to get into the Marans. Dont know what to do. Here are some pictures. You can see some of the spots and streaks. They were worse yesterday so Im hoing that its just dirt. Also I know they are not perfect. On had its tail feathers pulled out. I have one Im waiting for eye color.
They look like normal blues to me.
We must remember that blue is a leaky gene and will allow leakage of random darker blue feathers to be present. Sometimes these dark blue feathers that leak through can appear and look black, but they really are very very dark blue.
Splash birds with a double dose of the blue dilution gene allows for tons of leakage....hence we see the random darker and lighter blue feathers throughout the body.
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