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Is it possible to breed dark eggs from hatchery quality birds over time? If you just keep hatching the darkest eggs?
 
I started 5 years ago with 5 hatchery. 3 females/2 males. I was fortunate to get one real nice dark layer (Joannie) and both Roosters had dark egg gene.
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I now have over 20 BCMs and still a closed flock, no new genetics brought in yet.
This is an F3 (Joannie's Granddaughter) and I've got 5 of her F4s at 16 weeks I'm waiting on yet for egg color.
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