White Marans egg color?

[NoseyChickens]

I have read that white marans do not lay as dark of an egg, but I have searched and searched and cannot find a picture of an egg laid by a white maran. Are the eggs that much lighter? Are they still darker than your average brown egg?

 

[hoppy]

from what I read on a marans breed site, in order to be called marans eggs, they have to be a certain color on the egg scale or they are no longer considered marans. I think it's a 4- could be 5 on the marans scale. so white would also have to be minimally in that range. I have heard that cuckoo are lighter but that may be because so many poorly breed birds are now in the gene pool due to the popularity explosion.

 

[blackdotte]

There is no correlation between plumage colour & egg colour.