Sad. I will try to get better picture of mine tomorrow and her egg. If she isn't pure I don't want to buy from that place again. I have another source for BCM eggs that is great quality who also carries olive eggers so I'd just as soon use them if the Ameracauna isn't true.
Yeah, I was really attached to her plus wanted to see what she laid. She got taken right in front of me and I watched her die
and yeah I wouldn’t trust that place honestly. Especially if they sold you a blind bird too.
Midnight Majesty Marans and Mystic Marans are two examples of mass produced Marans crosses. Yes their eggs are lighter than a Marans from decent breeders but they can be pretty similar to hatchery quality Marans eggs and some breeders that don't focus on eggs, also easily improved by back crossing to a true Marans with good egg genetics
They always get the ones we love! Its like they know!Yeah, I was really attached to her plus wanted to see what she laid. She got taken right in front of me and I watched her die
Oh I've heard of those! I had no idea they were crosses. Interesting. I will look them up. I haven't bought hatchery Marans simply because I don't trust online egg photos. So far I have had pretty good luck buying fertilized eggs because at least you can see the quality of the eggs if that's what you're after. I don't particularly care about feathered feet, etc.
But many breeders hatch their darkest eggs. Theoretically couldn’t you do the same with a cross and slowly get to a higher producing darker egg layer.
That seems to be the consensus. I couldn't find the original source or any source about the dark egg gene and how it works. I have read that darker eggs have a lower hatch rate. Don't know how true that is either but it does seem like an awful lot of work to go through to get a slightly darker egg. It might be easier to get one of the hatchery created breeds and breed it back to a marans since they claim to have higher egg production rates according to the Hoover's website.
