Hard to tell from the picture, but I want to say I see some improvement in color. Does it look darker than the egg it hatched from to you?I have decided to do the same thing and just work on egg color... The blue pullet I sent pics of has started laying.
Since true Black Marans are really hard to get your hands on you can just about bet you have Black Copper. Test mating is the only way to figure that out for sure and you would need the elusive Black Marans cock.I just got into them last year and thought it would be easier to get some good breeding stock. But as far as chicken breeds go they are new and breeders aren't letting go of the few that are close to SOP, they are breeding or showing them. I'm keeping one of the Bev Davis and one of the Ernie Haire roos. I'm going to keep all of the hens until they lay; The hens are nice but have zero copper in them. How do you tell the difference in a black copper Marans with no copper showing and a Black Marans? I am going to concentrate on dark eggs and keep trying to achieve SOP. I picked BCM and Lav Ameraucana to breed, and both require hatching many to get the few.
