Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[pawtraitart]

My sweet BCM laid her first egg today...I hate to say I'm disappointed, but I was expecting a much darker chocolate color. It has a thick, chalky bloom and is in the same color range as my sex-links. Pictured bellow, next to a cream silky egg (she's the only other one laying at the moment), in natural light, it looks darker...but still not what I expected. Did i expect too much? Will it darken up? Or was I "had"? The woman claimed pure Wade Jean bread to pure Bev Davis lines.

When you cross lines, you will sometimes see a decrease in egg color in the first generation. There are many genes responsible and they all have to "line up", so to speak, in order to show up in the offspring. The parent birds could very well come from dark eggs themselves.

 

[Blarneyeggs]

My White Marans girl:







Now If I could only get her a boyfriend.

 

[OmAnNom]

When you cross lines, you will sometimes see a decrease in egg color in the first generation. There are many genes responsible and they all have to "line up", so to speak, in order to show up in the offspring. The parent birds could very well come from dark eggs themselves. 

Oh, man! It looks milk-chocolate next to your beautiful eggs! I'm so sad... Know anyone in NC breeding DARK marans layers? :/

 

[Blarneyeggs]

OmanNom: your avatar is hysterical.

 

[Annie G]

Thanks anyway. I plan it get a black Giant Jersey rooster as soon as I can. I don't really want to buy 15 chickens to get a rooster like you have to from an order house but I don't know where to just get what I want. I also want to get some white Giant Jerseys.

 

[Wynette]

My White Marans girl:



Now If I could only get her a boyfriend.

Blarney, from this picture, this female looks VERY nice to me!

 

[Wynette]

Just wondering if my Roo looks blue or black?

To me, this looks like a black copper out of a blue copper x black copper cross. JMO.

 

[Raven1]

Thanks anyway.  I plan it get a black Giant Jersey rooster as soon as I can.  I don't really want to buy 15 chickens to get a rooster like you have to from an order house but I don't know where to just get what I want.  I also want to get some white Giant Jerseys.

Try an ask on the Middle Tn. thread you might be surprized what you can find.

 

[Keara]

Thanks anyway. I plan it get a black Giant Jersey rooster as soon as I can. I don't really want to buy 15 chickens to get a rooster like you have to from an order house but I don't know where to just get what I want. I also want to get some white Giant Jerseys.

My Pet Chicken has black jersey giants and I think they will send you in Linden as few as 7 chicks.

 

[chicken pickin]

I would say black.

To me, this looks like a black copper out of a blue copper x black copper cross. JMO.

Thank You Both