maran egg color genes

  1. balletchickenmom

    Very Strange Egg-First Egg (I think) of 2-3ish year Old Copper Maran + Other Egg Color Questions!

    Hi! Many questions here about egg color So I am relatively new to chickens; we started our flock last June-ish. We ended up purchasing 4 older chickens to start, 3 barnvelders and 1 copper maran—Harriet Sr. (We now have 9 chickens, 4 older hens and then 5 pullets. The older hens all started...
  2. M

    Confused - black copper maran laying sage colored egg

    Hello! This spring I purchased what I thought were 7 olive eggers, 3 mystic maran, 3 brahma and 2 americuanas. What I've ended up with are 2 black copper marans, 1 of which is a rooster, and 8 french black marans. However, the black copper maran hen is laying a sage colored egg and the french...
  3. Harmoni

    What are mom and dad and what color eggs could be laid?

    I was told Dad is a Maran and mom is an EE. Mom looks more like an OE, I think. Babies hatched from light green eggs. Would they be likely to lay green eggs?
  4. chickenreyna

    maran dark egh laying gene..anyone have proof what a cross will lay that has maran dad & RIR MOMs

    Just curious if the dark egg gene is frequently genes oftem passed down or 50/50 any one have PROOF OF cross with maran side is the dad? because i have a juvenile pullet cross the maran is def the daddy LOL This probably makes no sense hopefully someone can break down DEL GENES FOR ME ON HERE LOL
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