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Quote: thank you, I did find someone that has some MArans. She is actually coming to town today! I am so happy.

Quote: Post in there and only got reply for a rooster. Pm someone and her hens aren't laying. I posted on the marans thread and nothing. I guess no dark eggs this year

Quote: I posted in the thread a while back we no replies. I will try again. I drove an hour and some to get two fbcm pullets that turned out to be hatchery Roos. I am not having luck with these dark eggs. I don't have a incubator. So eggs won't work. We just want two pullets sigh.

Except the only reason I got a welsummer is because it is hard to find marans here and we wanted dark eggs! Sigh.

Ah ha. So even if it is indeed a welsummer, because of the breeding the hatchery has done, it is a white egg layer, which defeats the whole purpose of having her. She is real skiddish and not friendly at all. We were ONLY going to keep her if she laid dark eggs, but if there is no chance of...

Quote: Now I am confused, cause in the welsummer thread someone said that they are flesh colored like the combs and then turn red as the comb does. I know my other brown egg layers did not start out with red earlobes, they turned red when the combs and wattles did. I have never seen a chick...

Quote: thank you, these are just the chicks we just got. (Got them all when we went to buy the "welsummer" lol)

Quote: when did it turn red? was it right before it laid, when the comb changed?

This chick is 4 months old. She was sold to me as a Welsummer, was originally from Ideal. I just wanted to check one last time. If she is a leghorn, she is going to a friend (that almost has their coop finished), if she is a welsummer, or still a chance that she could be, then we are keeping...