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X2! Yes @cake lady hen lover, I'm sorry too!..... and I'm going to do it again! My CCL lays pretty well, 5 out of 7 days, med size egg. I am interested to see how big the new crosses eggs get. So far, still pullet sized. My adult BCM hens are currently laying very large sized eggs. 65-69grams...

I suppose that those really, really dark 7 - 9 eggs would make a really odd OE color anyway! :hmm Also, seeing as how that kind of pigmentation on those 7 - 9 eggs must really take some work on behalf of the hen, would that mean that she would not lay as often?

Hey dorky!!! Welcome to the club!:frow

Yes, me too! My BCM girls are all very beautiful and I have not bothered to see how close to the SOP they are but my eggs at the moment are at most a 4 at the top of the laying cycle. I was hoping for better with this new batch of pullets as they came from the darkest eggs that I could find...

Too true, which is precisely why the breeders with the darkest eggs can ask and receive huge amounts of money for hatching eggs! @cake lady hen lover here is the chart for color comparison for Marans eggs. It is worth visiting the BCM thread on BYC just for interest! It seems like most of us...

Black Copper Marans lay the darkest eggs in the business. Welsummers lay a medium dark egg in comparison. I no longer have my Wellie, she got eaten by a bear but her egg was a medium milk chocolate brown. Here is a pic of one of my egg cartons: The blue eggs one of top of the other bottom...

Oh rats! I run into this problem all the time with my Black Copper Marans. I am constantly on the hunt for the darkest brown egg and whilst my hens currently are laying a lovely egg, it's not the bittersweet chocolate color that I yearn for! Cream Crested Legbars are available from Greenfire...

Cream Crested Legbars lay blue eggs. They are not bright blue, but up against a green egg you can definitely see the blue!