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Hi every one and thanks for the explanation ( meat spot)
I don t have this problem with my flock and they are all marans nothing else and i have more than 100 hens all varieties.
I entered my egg to the spring competition and they scored 1 st place ( size, color of the wok insinde) I sale the extra eggs ( no dark enough to the breakfast bar in Sydney ,they love them and every body adore them no complain about this brown spot inside the eggs.

guess each country have it own problem.

cheers chooks man
 
dheltzel said:
If your results are generally true, don't you think 2x the percent with meat spots is something to actively breed out?

Breeding out meat spots was obviously something on our mind. Thus the 2 month test to establish a base line, but we never culled for meat spots. We had more important things to work on that meat spots. Any time we had a new egg customer we went over the expectations they should have for farm eggs. 1) We told them that we didn't wash the eggs and that they didn't need to be concerned because the bloom on the egg would actually make the egg safer that washing it would. 2) we told them that we didn't refrigerate the eggs. We told them that if they were going to consume the egg in less than a month that they didn't have to either but if they were going to store it longer than that to refrigerate it and after it went into the refrigerator that they had to keep it refrigerated. 3) we told them that they might find meat spots in their eggs. We told them what a meat spot was, what caused it, and that the egg was perfectly safe. We also asked out regular customers if they had a favorite egg. My favorite was the Marans Egg closely followed by the Basque Hen eggs. My wife's favorite eggs were the White Bantam eggs. Most of our customer told up they liked them all and like having a mix but 3/4 of the people that did have a favorite egg said it was the Marans egg. For those people we would some times pack them a full dozen of the biggest darkest eggs we had. The dozen looked great.


Out of curiosity has anyone else noticed if hens produce more meat spots than pullets do? I could be mistaken but think that young pullets probablly produce a lot more meat spots that hens in their 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc laying season do.

Do you have other colors of Marans beside the Coppers? I wonder if Cuckoo's (silver or golden) have the same percentages.

We has some Wheatons, some Black Tailed Buff, and some Birchen for short periods of time in laying flocks but only ever breed the Black Copper Marans.
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Chooks man said:
ooks manHAPPY NEW YEAR 2016. wishing you a healthy breeding season of marans chicks and other breed.

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happy new year, everyone all over the world!
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healthy chickens and successful hatching byc friends!
 
Just got an email from Greenfire. They are giving 20% off on chicks until the 16th.
 
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