Honestly, it would be easier for Amy to just pick up on your post from here than trying to find it earlier in the thread. She just had a 100% hatch in styrofoam, and she will be a big help to you. When you get the Brinsea, I can point you in the right direction. The Brinsea is going to seem sent from heaven after a few tough hatches in styrofoam.
Honestly, it would be easier for Amy to just pick up on your post from here than trying to find it earlier in the thread. She just had a 100% hatch in styrofoam, and she will be a big help to you. When you get the Brinsea, I can point you in the right direction. The Brinsea is going to seem sent from heaven after a few tough hatches in styrofoam.
Just to let you know, I kind of pick at people in this thread, so if you read something from here on out that makes you think I'm mean, I'm really not
post # 3031 Amy gives a very detailed synopsis of her incubation.
Floor pipper? Wasn't that a Beatles song?My early morning pipper is now at about 12 hours. Ugh! Good news is, I just saw it move a piece of shell, so its still alive.
And my sweet darling wonderful hubby brought home some lemonade (Mike's black cherry) so I'm good for a long evening! Polish has widened its pip a little, and the floor pipper is hanging in there too.
Floor pipper? Wasn't that a Beatles song?
In my experience, all H*** breaks loose at 14 hrs
What is your altitude? Are the eggs shipped or local? I leave chicks in the incubator and then pull them when they fluff up at about 24hrs. I keep lockdown humidity closer to 75% so that I can grab chicks out quickly and not kill the humidity.
He is a **** handsome rooster SC.Inside for 3-5 days in a tub brooder, then outside to one of 3 large brooders that will house them until they make the move to the grow out pen
Where's Amy?
Down by the creek, walkin' on water
I will give you my very limited experience opinion, and it is based only on what I have read on the Black Copper Marans Discussion thread. He is a beautiful rooster, and looks almost exactly like mine at that age. Eye color is good, crest looks good, just watch and make sure he doesn't develop any extra points at the rear base. Mine did, and that's what a carnation comb is. That's a DQ if you are showing. I don't know enough to comment on body type, but he also looks like he may be a little "mossy". That's when you get copper bleeding into the areas that should be totally black, like the breast. The ear muffs are copper, and that's good. It's hard to tell from the picture, but the soles of his feet are still slate colored like the shanks aren't they? One of my first roos had yellow feet, and that's another automatic DQ. From all I have read, this is an extremely difficult breed to breed to SOP, with only 10% or so surviving the cut. If you want brutally honest opinions, and have a thick skin, post on the other thread. You will learn a ton about the breed, but they don't suffer fools lightly. There are some serious breeders on that thread, and they will point out every single fault in your birds. They told me to eat mine
I wuill never be showing birds, so I will probably breed them as close to SOP as I can, but in the end will advertise them as "pet quality". 95% of the people looking for BCM just want the darkest eggs, anyway.
I think yours is gorgeous, and honestly looks exactly like my keeper at that age
Here he is at 5 months. See the extra points at the rear base? That's a DQ for showing. It was bred into Marans by people crossing them with penedesencas trying to get a darker egg, but the pens have a different comb and it has carried down. See the copper flecking in his chest? That's not desireable either, but he is an awesome bird with a great personality, so I'm going to see what I can get from him. He and the hens came from eggs that were solid 7-8 on the Marans scale
