Dark Egg Breeds Thread

[drom]

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You only need to send 3 eggs in to these shows, you should enter. I might send something in, but it would be on blind faith, because my girls haven't laid yet and their mother hens are at the tail end of their lay cycle so their eggs would not be pinned.

 

[drom]

I got my first egg yesterday from my 3nd generation of Black Copper Marans.

I'm very happy with the shape!!

Color looks ok

It is teeeeny-tiny; the size of a bantam egg

I have no idea what I am going to do with spring breedings. I have several cockerels and all of them came from good eggs, but I am supposed to breed back to the father. Unfortunately he carries wheaten. I could continue to breed 1/2 siblings I suppose.

It's really impossible to figure out what breeding will be best for egg color and so very easy for feather color and confirmation. I suppose the best thing is to just keep the flock closed, hatch only dark eggs and mark them so you know who the parents are. hmmmm, a long process

 

[kathyinmo]

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Is to just send eggs to Kathy to hatch!

ETA: VERY nice egg! Very nice!

 

[drom]

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Is to just send eggs to Kathy to hatch!

ETA: VERY nice egg! Very nice!

Thanks Kathy!

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[drom]

Here's a picture i thought would be interesting. These are my 2nd generation hen's eggs at the end of their cycle compared to their daughter's first eggs. It's hard to tell but the 2nd gen hens are laying very large eggs at the end of their cycle; they are almost the size of duck eggs. The pullet's eggs on the other hand are about bantam size.

 

[geebs]

I am getting he same thing... Nice huh??? Thanks for the pix.

 

[drom]

Yep,
I'm getting the largest eggs this month any of mine have ever laid. It's too bad they don't lay this large while they are still laying dark

 

[geebs]

Well I have to say... My darkest eggies from this season are the largest... Hang in there... I couldn't believe it.. I don't get very many... maybe 3 a week. I wish I had photographed em... I ate em... I didn't have them with the rooster I wanted to breed... I should probably be hatching the heck out of em.... Too lazy.. Tired of hatching still..... Yuck... too nice outside... Gotta play in the sun.

P.S. they look good and dark to me.

 

[moondog425]

Hey happymtn, where can I get some Dominiqe hens around here? I live in Dayton, And did you get any dark eggers?
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OK- who is going to send me some eggs? I've been trying to avoid the whole marans craze- but I can't put it off much longer. I don't care if I have mutts- I just want THOSE EGGS!!!!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4637781#p4637781

 

[drom]

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Oh, that's nice. You should hatch them Geebs! I don't think really large, dark eggs are all that common. Most of the dark eggs I saw at the couple shows I visited were more average sized. Only one entry that I saw had eggs that were both very dark and very large.