I'm just starting my project and was wondering what Marian's lay the really dark chocolate looking eggs and what chickens lay the really red brown eggs I have a flock of 8 mo olds.a EE roo 2 EE hens a silver lace roo and 3 silver lace hens and about 17 brown egg layers from murry.now I want to get dark olives and striking feather color and patterns
In my experience it has been the French Black Copper Marans (FBCM) that lay the darkest of the marans. Welsummers lay a terra cotta colored sometimes speckled egg. My cross of Welsummer and true Ameracuana produced a nice olive egg but not as dark as I wanted. Right now in the incubator I have a FBCM and Cream Legbar cross that will hopefully produce a darker egg color. The picture is of the Wellie/Am cross eggs.