My Blue and Splash Marans lay like your right side and my Cuckoos lay like the left bottom one and a little darker. My welsunners lay darker than the Cuckoos most of the time. My Australorps lay just as dark As your left side. I don't have any BCMs to compare them to.This is from 2 different lines of BCM's I have, showing the extremes. (I've got the 2 lines separated). I have 2 other lines that lay eggs in between those two extremes.
Thanks! My darkest layers only give me a few eggs per week, I think that is pretty typical so I was curious about yours
That's amazing. Are you breeding for type, or breeding for eggs? I'm just starting with my first batch of BCMs that came from #6to #8 eggs (I saw them at the breeder). I won't be showing chickens, but I am very interested in keeping the eggs as dark as possible. Are those #9s early season eggs? How much do they drop off over the year? The breeder also told me that his hens eggs also tend to lighten up after year 2
I don't have a show color chart, I just ordered one, it should be here in a few days I will take a picture and let you know.What color are the Marans eggs on the Marans egg color chart? It's impossible to tell with different lighting, monitors, etc. without one. We always have the chart in our egg photos.It's helpful also to punch a hole in each egg color on the chart and put your egg behind the chart for most clear color matching, like this:
That's extremely helpful, thanks! Great journalI'm breeding for both type and eggs.
If you go to this page http://agricommunity.com/for-sale/ and scroll down and click the BCM links you'll see how I got my dark line going. Those links should answer all your questions.
these are my eggs currently in the incubator #1 due on March 5th
I have BCM, and SCM and Oliveshould get some blues!
Wow! I hope I can get there. These were the eggs at the breeder's under flourescent lightsI have BCM, and SCM and Oliveshould get some blues!
