My marans aren't marans????

[asher]

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Those look soooo good. Good enough to eat for sure, as if you cracked them open, liquid chocolate would come out.

 

[Katy]

LOL...I wish they stayed that dark all the time!!

 

[EweSheep]

I had a black Marans pullet and she produced this kind of color....about five years ago.

Her egg is the light chocolate color on the corner of the nest.

 

[EweSheep]

The dark brown egg inside of the nest box corner toward you is the Pescendenas. The other brown egg opposite of the Penes egg is the Welsummer.

 

[MissPrissy]

The one you call a welsummer looks like my hatchery cuckoo marans eggs.

 

[Oblio13]

When my Marans pullets start laying, the eggs aren't very dark - about "3" on the chart. As they mature, the eggs get larger and darker, to about "5". Then as the laying cycle progresses, they get lighter again.

If your hens don't lay at least a "4" - the color of terracota - at some point, they aren't Marans.

 

[Frozen Feathers]

Ewesheep...What's the egg outside of the box to the left, just out of curiosity??
From my understanding the longer time between eggs, the darker the next egg is going to be?

I don't have Marans or any dark egg layers...my darkest egg is laid by an Austalorp.

 

[EweSheep]

The very light milk chocolate is the Marans I had. She was too light and I was very disappointed in her egg color even the Marans were at its infancy...she was out of Beeeman's flock. She was a very beautiful black Maran with feathering on her legs.

Left to ride, front to back in order

Black Maran, Belgian d Anver (white), grey Amercuana cross (light gray greenish tint)
Penes (dark egg on corner), EE (blue green) and Welsummer (speckled brown on opposite corner)
Third row, EE (darker green blue), Faverolle (tint), and grey Amercuana cross (grey tint)

 

[KAKBucks]

No more eggs in the dog house today

I was hoping for a little more "information" haha

Of course I forgot to take my camera with me, but the male that looks like he has some birchen coloring (the fading on his back) has a lot more dark cuckoo and black feathers in his tail than when the pictures were taken that I posted.

I hope to get some new pics early next week. This week and weekend there is just way to much drama in my life! Of course I have a clutch of duck eggs hatching (that I have to confiscate) and a bator full of different breeds that i have to get banded as they hatch, in case I didn't have enough going on already. when it rains it pours!

Kendra

 

[ole-crone]

I bought a dark egg laying group from Ideal last fall.

When they started laying the eggs were light brown - one was almost white!

Now their eggs are darker than our other brown egg layers.

If only Boil, Toil and Trouble (Barnvelders) will cease being broody and stop hissing at me whenever I go near the coop. It is funny though to see the three heads stare you down when you go in. I should take a picture.