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[SlipsWife]

From where did you get it? That's about what I'd expect from a hatchery Marans.

She's from Ideal. I'm really disappointed, it's not much darker than my sexlinks and will probably lighten some as the eggs get larger because she just started laying not long ago. Darn it! Lol

 

[SlipsWife]

top row the fourth egg 2nd row the 2nd egg 3rd row the 2nd egg are my welsummers

Yours look darker but not drastically. Hopefully she's a good layer.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Here are some pullet eggs from my blue copper marans from a good breeder who selects for darkest egg color. Not bragging, just showing to show the difference. You really have to select for dark egg color in the "chocolate" egg layers to get them...



(They do lighten up as the pullets/hens get older.)

- Ant Farm

 

[Kiki]

From where did you get it? That's about what I'd expect from a hatchery Marans.

I got my Wels from Ideal.
They are very pretty and I like them just for some reason I thought the eggs would be darker.
They are still perfect to me!

 

[Kiki]

hahah I misread and thought you were asking me where I got mine from. sorry.

 

[SlipsWife]

I got my Wels from Ideal.
They are very pretty and I like them just for some reason I thought the eggs would be darker.
They are still perfect to me!

Here are some pullet eggs from my blue copper marans from a good breeder who selects for darkest egg color. Not bragging, just showing to show the difference. You really have to select for dark egg color in the "chocolate" egg layers to get them...



(They do lighten up as the pullets/hens get older.)

- Ant Farm

Those are pretty! I guess if I really want darker ones I need to find a breeder. Not that it really matters, I was just hoping for darker for more variation in our egg basket.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Yeah, I really wanted the dark eggs, so I spent a couple years doing my homework before picking Eight Acres (she's on BYC as well). She has such great birds...

- Ant Farm

Edit to add website just in case anyone was interested: http://eightacresfarm.weebly.com
(I have no relationship/conflict of interest - just a customer)

 

[Kiki]

Yeah, I really wanted the dark eggs, so I spent a couple years doing my homework before picking Eight Acres (she's on BYC as well). She has such great birds...

- Ant Farm

Edit to add website just in case anyone was interested: http://eightacresfarm.weebly.com
(I have no relationship/conflict of interest - just a customer)

can she ship chicks?

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Yup - that's how I got mine. I got German New Hampshires, Blue Copper Marans (with a splash and a couple black coppers thrown in), and an olive egger. They have been great birds - Earl the GNH is particularly handsome and good at posing for the camera:


- Ant Farm

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

This is Monkey, my Splash Copper Marans whom I kept because he was so nice: