I have a couple dozen marans eggs in the bators, and a half dozen broodies scattered around with secret stashes of eggs under them as backup just in case I have another incubator operator failure scenario. If these all hatch, I'm in big trouble!!! I really am looking to grow out some nice roos, not so much looking to build my hen flock, but I might have to build a "Flock B" or something like that... Could you imagine, a big ol flock of twenty or thirty Nice laying Copper Black Marans hens? Heck, then I might actually be able to choose a select group with just the right coppering, no white tips on thier feet feathers, just the perfect comb shapes, and of course, dark eggs! I am seriously selecting AWAY from slow feathering gene, that being my #1 culling point, at just a week old, all the no-tailers get sent down the road. That is on my copper blacks. I have not started "working" on my BBS other than trying to get more Blues and Splashes at this point. The blacks breed like rats, the blues and splashes, not so much.
