First hatch of 2026...
58 BCMs eggs along with Olive Eggers, Marsbars, and Fibro eggers.
No BBS Silvers this round, egg weight is a little on the low side still.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'true' French Marans? Unless your talking directly imported from France.
Greenfire Farms is one hatchery that I believe does.
Steve Copeland of Marans of Apple Hill (California) bought out Brenda Little's stock, (Little Peddler). Her LP line (eggs) was...
I hatched Poppy and Solo spring 2024. And then she shipped me more eggs spring of 2025. I had one pass early on so ended up with 2 Black (1m, 1F) 5 Blue (2m, 3f) 1 Splash male and 3 Legbar females.
Doro's 2 daughters are laying lovely eggs.
W/B (Raven F1)...First 9 eggs
Weighed the BBS Silver eggs and they are starting to darken up nicely also.
And finally a few of Christy's...
I started 5 years ago with 5 hatchery. 3 females/2 males. I was fortunate to get one real nice dark layer (Joannie) and both Roosters had dark egg gene.
I now have over 20 BCMs and still a closed flock, no new genetics brought in yet.
This is an F3 (Joannie's Granddaughter) and I've got 5 of...
Congrats.... stunning colors, my friend.
12 of our 20 BCM girls are laying + 9 more pullets are 16 weeks. The Silvers are all laying, Solo just started back up a week ago.
Exactly my thinking as well with White. Even Splash didn't peak any interest until I got hatched the Splash Silver boy, but I still favor the Silver over Copper. The gold in the Splash Coppers just looks dirty/diluted. The White/Silver blends in more.