International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

[wrathsfarm]

@wrathsfarm my first ‘olive’ eggs, from the new pullets. Not my own bred, so don’t have Wellie or Marans genes, so just a nice mint green, but I can’t wait to add some darker egg genes.

This olive egger hen keeps jumping the fence to lay her egg in the house Napoleon and the silkie boys sleep in, so she clearly wants to see marans x olive eggers too!
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Congrats.... That's pretty.

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9th egg from left...

 

[BlueTheBrahma]

Congrats.... That's pretty.

9th egg from left...

Wellies or Marans, I’ll never pick a favourite.

 

[wrathsfarm]

View attachment 4089367Wellies or Marans, I’ll never pick a favourite.

Wow !! I favor the bigger splotches myself because they're pretty rare here in mine.

 

[BlueTheBrahma]

Wow !! I favor the bigger splotches myself because they're pretty rare here in mine.

Yes, it’s my favourite aspect of my welsummers’ eggs. Only one hen (that’s alive) lays these speckled eggs, the rest are the more correct matte russet eggs, though my best hen has black speckles on hers.

I think I’d like to keep these speckles in the welsummers, and I’m glad my Marans can focus on the darkest eggs.

these are the most speckled eggs from Natasha, still way darker than the welsummer eggs above, as Marans should be. Unlike the speckled welsummers, the speckled are an addition to the dark egg, rather than a different way of distributing the same pigment like seen in the welsummers.

A longwinded way of saying I love the variety.

 

[wrathsfarm]

Yes, it’s my favourite aspect of my welsummers’ eggs. Only one hen (that’s alive) lays these speckled eggs, the rest are the more correct matte russet eggs, though my best hen has black speckles on hers.

I think I’d like to keep these speckles in the welsummers, and I’m glad my Marans can focus on the darkest eggs.View attachment 4089399View attachment 4089400these are the most speckled eggs from Natasha, still way darker than the welsummer eggs above, as Marans should be. Unlike the speckled welsummers, the speckled are an addition to the dark egg, rather than a different way of distributing the same pigment like seen in the welsummers.

A longwinded way of saying I love the variety.

Beautiful... My only hen that throws consistent is Betty. I get these everytime pretty much, but the speckling varies with a purple hue color. Any others I get are sporadic and look more like your bottom egg pic.

Betty is my all black that produced the mossy pullets and way over colored boys.

 

[Auntiejessi3]

View attachment 4089319View attachment 4089320View attachment 4089321These were the best eggs from when Chanel started laying. Stayed pretty consistent across the year but after each moult there was a decline.View attachment 4089322View attachment 4089323her eggs are on the left in either photo, Natasha’s on the right. Still above average (for non-prize winning birds) but notice the lack of shine and how the colour now seems to be both paler and patchier. She is three years old this September I think.

Lovely!

 

[Auntiejessi3]

Yes, it’s my favourite aspect of my welsummers’ eggs. Only one hen (that’s alive) lays these speckled eggs, the rest are the more correct matte russet eggs, though my best hen has black speckles on hers.

I think I’d like to keep these speckles in the welsummers, and I’m glad my Marans can focus on the darkest eggs.View attachment 4089399View attachment 4089400these are the most speckled eggs from Natasha, still way darker than the welsummer eggs above, as Marans should be. Unlike the speckled welsummers, the speckled are an addition to the dark egg, rather than a different way of distributing the same pigment like seen in the welsummers.

A longwinded way of saying I love the variety.

How lovely! I got an interesting egg from one of my Wheaten Marans pullets (Cordelia) today, she usually lays a nice dark egg, but today it was light with lovely speckles (egg on the left)

 

[Auntiejessi3]

And a quick clip of Langdon showing a couple of his ladies a great spot to lay

 

[wrathsfarm]

How lovely! I got an interesting egg from one of my Wheaten Marans pullets (Cordelia) today, she usually lays a nice dark egg, but today it was light with lovely speckles (egg on the left)

Weird egg day, today. Looks like yours is ramping up to go darker...those speckles are dark.

 

[Auntiejessi3]

Weird egg day, today. Looks like yours is ramping up to go darker...those speckles are dark.

This is her normal egg, she's been pretty consistent since she started, so the one today was way off par