What Marans colors can be bred together?

[sunnydt]

Can someone please tell me what colors of the French Copper Marans can be bred together to make what? All I know is that black blue and splash can be together and make true black, true blue and splash. Thank you for any information.

 

[Pele]

You can combine them with any color if you are experimenting, but Copper does not work in the same way as the other colors you listed. If you mixed a BCM with other colors, you'd get a mishmash, as opposed to a specific breed result.

 

[sunnydt]

Ok so blue and black will not work? I thought that would make true black or true blue or splash

 

[sunnydt]

Ok I have researched this a bit and here is what I have found.

"you can run the birds together and still get purebred Black Copper Marans and purebred Blue Copper Marans. The blue color gene is a variant of the black color gene, they occupy the same loci on the chromosome. Think of the blue color gene as a dilution gene. It dilutes out the black color. Gray is a dilute black."

So I will be breeding the two together.

ps. I am currently taking orders for black, blue, splash ameraucana hatching eggs. http://sunnys.insytz.org