How to get Bantam Marans eggs Darker?

[reesepoultry]

I have a question. I have a quad of bantam marans and I am not real happy with the egg color. They lay a really light brown egg. I want the egg color to be darker like the standards.

How would I go about doing this?

Could I use a standard Maran roo on my bantam hens or will the effect the size a bunch.

or

Would using standard Maran hens with my Bantam Maran roo be better.

I am lost and need some advice on how to darken my eggs up without messing with the size and feature too much.

 

[HenThymes]

Michelle, a couple of my solid black bantam marans girls lay a nice dark color egg, I was very surprised being that they are still soo much a project. Hoping they pass the color on in the next generation.