I'M SCARED WHY IS MY CUCKOO MARAN LAYING LIGHT CREME EGGS INSTEAD OF DARK CHOCOLATE?

[chickadee101]

WHAT IS GOING ON??????

 

[Fred's Hens]

If she has just begun to lay, the odds are her breeding is quite suspect.

If she had been laying darker eggs and now they are getting lighter, this is somewhat normal in that hens often lay lighter eggs, the farther they go into their laying cycle.

 

[chickadee101]

she has been laying for months now and NOT ONCE have i gotten a dark egg! they look like this:

these aren't the actual ones just what they look like!

 

[missnu01]

Marans don't always lay super dark eggs, but they should, they have the ability sometimes, but not very Marans hen will lay super dark eggs...I feel like sometimes birds have been crossed somewhere at some time so things go awry, or a chick hatched that laid light eggs and I stead of culling the person fired light eggs were better than no eggs...it's hard to breed for a certain trait. I mean it can be emotionally hard. I couldn't ever dispatch a chicken because it didn't have this trait or that

 

[keesmom]

Is she from a hatchery? I doubt you'll find a hatchery Marans that will produce a chocolate colored egg. They do not focus on things such as egg color.

 

[oesdog]

I have had my Maran Gerty for years and she never once gave me a dark brown egg. In fact sometimes they were lighter than those my plain old PRs laid!!!!!!

Oes - nothing to be scared about just love her anyway! Here is my old gerty - no dark eggs at all ever!

 

[chickadee101]

mine looks EXACTLY the same!

only light colored eggs! and she's not even from a hatchery! got her off craigslist

 

[oesdog]

mine looks EXACTLY the same!

only light colored eggs! and she's not even from a hatchery! got her off craigslist

What colour are her legs?????? Lol - someone once tried to sell me a barred rock telling me it was a baby Marans lol - he was not happy when I told him he could keep his barred rock and I would take the Marans he did have the one with the PINK LEGS! Still that one is my sons hen "crazy legs" and she doesn;t lay dark eggs either - just plain old borring light brown ones any common PR can lay! - Darn!

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE BIRDS??????????

Oes

 

[chickadee101]

everything about the one you posted is EXACTLY identical to mine! the light colored beak with brownish lines, white/pink legs, EVERYTHING!

 

[Fred's Hens]

As I understand it, the Marans was just recently accepted as a breed. To actually BE a Marans, I believe the egg it lays must be a 6 or 7 on a scale of 10, as best I remember.

If the bird cannot do this, it isn't a Marans. It's just a speckled, cuckoo bird. My guess, and only a guess. is that given the popularity or novelty of a new breed, there are far too many people selling birds as Marans that simply are not up to snuff, either in appearance nor egg laying. What else is new, I guess.

Just stuff you hear hanging around here. More experienced breeders of true Marans would certainly know better.