Can you give me a list of dark egg layers?

[ninjascrub69]

I want to add some "chocolate" eggers to my flock, can you give me a list of breeds that lay a dark egg?

 

[matthewschickens]

Marans

 

[chicmom]

Marans and Welsummer too.

 

[NonnasBabies]

I think Welsummers lay dark eggs too!!

Missi

 

[matthewschickens]

and Penedesenca

 

[bargain]

Our darker layers here are Black Copper Marans, Wheaten Marans, BBS Marans (to be available in 2011), Welsummers.

You can also get other dark egg layers - Pendesenca -- not sure of spelling, have heard they don't lay that well, Barnvelders - have heard the darkness is a project in the making as apparently the European types are darker.... I'm sure there are others as well.

We love our Marans, they are our darkest, and the Welsummers are lighter than the Marans..

edited for terrible typo!

 

[matthewschickens]

Quote:
Not hatchery Wellsummers... They don't lay dark eggs.. Neither do hatchery Marans.

 

[gryeyes]

Here's a link to Henderson's Handy Dandy Chicken Breeds Chart:
http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html

I refer to it ALL the time.

P.S. - My feedstore (therefore "hatchery") Welsummer lays very dark eggs.
In this photo are two Welsummer eggs, an EE egg, a Lakenvelder egg, and a bantam cochin egg.

 

[ninjascrub69]

Thanks all!
I think im going to get some BCM's and penedesenca's

 

[Silkie-Feet]

golden comets i will recomed them for thier temperment and looks and yes the eggs are dark