Wrath's Marans

Black Silver pullet
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Mommas View attachment 4186155

Chloe is front row left. (Y/O). If I recall this was one of her first eggs. (All 6 were new layers) and at her peak she lays just about the same color as Momma, if not a tad lighter. I've read that sometimes the dark egg gene coming from Kong will sometimes skip a generation.
Example being all 3 in back row are sisters from Raven. W/blue on left layed the lightest, but I wouldn't have dismissed her just because of egg color. She had black eyes and that's a no breed forward combined with her light egg. I would have definitely kept her to backcross again because Raven is one of my darkest layers.

While I'm at it...that center front egg is Lil Black's. Black (her Dam) is my suspect Midnight Majesty as Lil Black has got lots of leakage as the MMMs don't breed true. But that egg color is staying and by backcrossing Lil Black I'll keep darkening the eggs and get back to pure Black Copper in her progeny.View attachment 4186154
So if I understand it, you’re going to keep Lil black in the breeding pool with one of your full blood BCM Roosters, and eventually her offspring (F2 or F3) will be back to the full bcm standard?

I’d be really curious to see how it works out because one of my broodies hatched a noir marans x bcm earlier this year.
 
So if I understand it, you’re going to keep Lil black in the breeding pool with one of your full blood BCM Roosters, and eventually her offspring (F2 or F3) will be back to the full bcm standard?

I’d be really curious to see how it works out because one of my broodies hatched a noir marans x bcm earlier this year.
Correct... with just a slight correction of Lil Black is an F2. So F3-F4 possibly. My problem is with Kong being overcolored in the chest, he won't correct her. I need a cock with no chest leakage, I have a few (20 or more) growing out.
Very old pic of her last fall. I need to get better.
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Don't mind this, 4 am armchair boredom...
I'm missing a broody or 3.
7- Chloe...Kong x Solo cross (6f) + head spot BCM (1f)
5- W/W...(2m/3f) OE
2- Lil Black...W/R (1m/1f) BCM
6- Lil Jessie... 3 Jett,3 Jessie/PG(3m/3f) BCM
1- Copper... Raven (f 'Ronnie') BCM
10- Momma... Jett ( m/ f) BCM
5- W/W...Kong x Solo cross (3m/2f)
6- Chloe... W/W ( m/ f ) BCM
7- BA... Rebel ( m/ f) BCM
2- BA... Raven ( m/ f) BCM
7- Raven... Copper ( m/ f) BCM
3- Black... Raven ( m/ f) BCM
1- BR... Solo ( ? )

Edited...missed
2- P/G... W/R (1m/1f) BCM
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64 (47 BCM, 5 OE, 11 cross, 1-?)

11- BBS Silvers (4m/7f)
2- Ermine x EE (1m/1f)
15- Ermine and EE mix ( ? )
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28

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Copper- due 8/4- 6 Poppy x Solo
 
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