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Very nice, and yes, you do have a blue wheaten and a normal wheaten girl!

This is a pic of a young blue wheaten at similar age. There is no other wheaten colour, there is blue or normal. In this country, because it is not an established breed, you do get odd colours from time to time. Your birds should not really have that problem. They also do not really look like...

It is blue wheaten, so should be mainly blue.

Firstly, I am no expert. But where did you get these birds from, the colour seems a little off. And how old are they?

Where are you cazzajayne? they may lighten up a little, but not a lot. Were they from dark colored (for Australia) eggs? this is one from my first hatch from shipped eggs. She is still much the same colour 6 months later, but she lays a nice coloured egg. However, her babies are also a bad...

You will find the Wheaten Marans in Australia, in the main, are not a good colour. We do not have the quality in the birds or the eggs that the USA has.

Very nice of you to give them chairs to sit on!!!!!!!! :lau

So, just to confirm. You are talking about Americauna's/EE"s not Marans. That makes much more sense. They do lay other coloured eggs. It is just that this is a Marans thread - a completely different kettle of fish to the breeds you are talking about.

I am sorry, but I am confused. Are you talking about Marans? It is a requirement that Marans lay a brown/chocolate egg.

Unfortunately, not overall, they are the best i have, but working towards it. Will post a couple of pics of hens so you can see how good yours are, but not on home computer at the moment, which is where the photos are.

okay Randy, no competition, but i have to reply with something. :lau

And so you should be, they are beautiful hens. And the roosters I have seen are great too. I aspire to your hens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wheaten is definitely NOT a 'modifying gene' for black copper, they are a totally different set of alleles. However this is above my pay grade, so I will leave it alone. The wheaten and "black red" behaves the same in any breed, so any person familiar with genetics can help you.

Oh wow, that's a big question, and once again, I have never done this, and there are many, many people who are much, much more knowledgeable than me. But, genetically, these two varieties are totally different. This will mean that your colours will be all over the place. Even if you get a nice...

Hi, I will answer because this thread is so quiet at the moment. But I am no expert, unlike many on here and the other marans threads. It will take many generations for any uniformity in your stock, and even then there will bad things popping up all the time. It takes a dedicated and...

That would be great. I just put a heap into lockdown. Some of the air sacs seemed a bit large, so not sure how the hatch is going to go.

They look lovely. Wish we had such nice Marans in Australia. Sure is green at your place. Looks like you would keep the mower busy. :D

My girls give me an egg every day and a half, approximately. But it really varies with the lines.

Nice girl. Looks like she is a blue wheaten..

I love your chooks Randy. I can never see enough photos of them. We don't get hens of that quality in Australia.