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How do your hens look and how much do you like their eggs .

So cute

I have been working with the Marans for 4 years so really not all that long of a time but I have found that the chickens generally produce the same color as the Parents did or a bit lighter it takes some work to get a darker egg so I have found that breeders either breed for egg color or chicken...

This is my experience I keep the roo from the darkest egg's I hatch as I was reading some where that a roo gives 14 of his genes to the egg and the hen gives 7 genes for the egg color . And this is how I go and it seems to work for me ..

I have noticed my Marans do have a heavy coating on their eggs but my girls are producing eggs with heave shells and I do get complaints from many of my customers who buy my eggs as I put out a multi colored eggs carton with Marans, Easter Eggers, Russian Orloff's and Road Island Reds . I feed...

How true and straight to the point I am the same way just do not have the time to play around ....

Strong colored eggs and what a gorges looking flock

Alright great to have you joining the BYC flock You should go over to the New Members Introduction, just go up the page and find the Form Nav: then go find New Members Introduction and introduce your self Great looking Roo and I really enjoy his name one of my favorite movies ever

They look to be only a couple of weeks old if you try to feed them some cooked eggs the feathers will grow out really nice , and fast .....

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Try feeding your chicks some hard boiled egg's, just mash them up and serve it might take them a wile to get use to eating the egg's but make them a new egg every day till they eat it and once them little guys start getting the taste for the egg's you will need to count your fingers ( ha, ha )...

Defiantly a mix this you can see in the comb alone ....

Ho Mother Nature how she likes to amaze us ......

I have had that problem before and I have several smaller cages just for such cases and then I watch them for a week or so and then keep a log on how many egg's are produced per week color it also helps me identify each chickens egg and I can identify each chickens egg's with 17 hens ....