My marans aren't marans????

Here is a Maran Cuckoo hen I used to have. All the others were dark like this. They layed really dark eggs.
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OK, hopefully this photo will work
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The two on the left are yesterdays marans eggs. I haven't checked today yet. Curiously I have a mixed breed white hen that lays the darkest eggs in my flock. The middle egg is hers. The two on the right are from my golden buffs.

I don't think this photo shows it very well, but one of the marans eggs does have some speckling on it.

I'll let you know what, if anything, I get today
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Kendra
 
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You use the bottom link on Photobucket, but you want to click on IMG first on this page, then paste the link in the middle between
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My Marans look like Bama's old one; nothing at all like yours
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They came from Ray Valentine. Yours remind me of a Barred Rock Marans cross.
 
Gosh I hate that carpet. Gotta love the pine shavings in the picture though! I took it on the carpet in my dining room between the bator and the brooder LOL. My Dyson has decided that it doesnt' like vaccuming up the shavings any more. Grrr

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Those are certainly too light to qualify as Marans eggs.

The first picture is some eggs I incubated this past winter/early spring when they started laying again and the second is when they had been laying again for awhile with a couple of Barred rock eggs.The last picture is a picture I took today of the eggs from the last couple of days.....I've only got a couple of Marans laying now since the heat and being broody have put a stop to the others. There's also a couple of BR eggs there for contrast.

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These are a few of my marans and a couple of eggs. I have a color chart and the hen I culled egg was a 4 on the chart, qualifying her as a marans,but not the quality I want to sell or to have in my breeding pen. I got that light colored egg for several months and once she went broody,I didn't get it any more. Once she raised her chicks,I put her in my egg laying coop and I still have not gotten the light egg from my other marans.
 

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