If that dark brown one is a marans egg, my two only ever lay one egg every other day. Usually, they take turns, so I get one marans egg every day. The other egg looks like it may have gotten dropped on one end. Could it have fallen out of the nest box or something? Also, a lot of...
Our girls are NOT laying right now, and they refuse to come out of their coop! I think they're blaming the snow and freezing temperatures on us! LOL!!!
I was in angst here for more than a week because I couldn't see my girls in the coop via my camera!!! When I pulled up the program on my laptop, it said I had to download a Java update, so I did. Then it said my camera program was incompatible with my browser, but they were working on it...
It's my understanding that they can lay either blue or green. In which case, you got the right ones. There's no way to tell in advance whether they'll lay blue or green eggs. They may not even bee the same shade all the time as they are now. Sorry you were hoping for blue eggs.
I have two cuckoo marans, a barred rock, and a buff orpington. Usually the marans lay an egg every other day, so they take turns! It's snowed here, and the girls tentatively stepped out of their coop onto the chicken ladder, then flew down and quickly got under the coop where there was no...