When do Maran's typically lay?

[BeulahBreezes]

My 2 CM's are starting to show signs of being ready to lay.....very red combs and very noisy too! Lucy, the pullet that we thought would lay last, has laid 2, maybe 3 eggs so far. The other day she popped out an egg as she was going up the ladder to get in the henhouse! She had already laid an egg earlier that morning, so I was surprised to she her pop out the 2nd one...lol! Haven't seen any eggs from Ethel yet, but she's been noisy and has been checking out the nest boxes! ~Beulah (My CM's are 21 weeks old)

 

[Nicole01]

Mine will be 6 months old in 1.5 weeks. Her comb is as big as my RIR, so it's got to be any day now.

 

[Nicole01]

Luna is squatting every time I pet her! Big improvement!

 

[Chicky Mama 52]

We have been waiting ...not so patiently... for our Marans to lay too. Finally, we have an egg! It was brown with dark speckles. I was hoping for the really dark "chocolate" egg color.

Does this mean that her eggs will always be this color or can they get darker with time?

 

[Nicole01]

I wish I knew. This is our first maran. We haven't seen an egg yet.

 

[my peeps and me]

I have 7 marans. 6 French Black Copper and 1 Cukoo Marans. One of my Marans started laying at 19 weeks 5 days. Last Sunday(almost 22 weeks) for the first time I got 7 chocolate eggs in one day!

 

[HudokFarm]

I got a brown one yesterday with very dark speckles. I wonder if that was one of our Marans? I wish I could take a day off work to sit and watch the ladies all day!

 

[aggiemae]

I got a brown one yesterday with very dark speckles. I wonder if that was one of our Marans? I wish I could take a day off work to sit and watch the ladies all day!

Their eggs are much darker that other breeds. Our Maran pullet hasn't laid yet and today my husband said she mounted one to the 'other' hens. She doesn't have spurs or tall tail feathers and hasn't crowed but I am still worried.

 

[karlamaria]

Well I spoke to soon, my maran laid today a very pretty dark egg. I ate it for dinner lol. I did take a picture of the shell, I will post it later. I'm happy, we did not know for sure what she was, but now I do the age is between 24 and 25 weeks old. ( 6 months old)

well it's been almost 3 days and no more eggs from my maran, just one chocolate egg, I'm wondering why since she is my only copper maran, and the rest of my girls lay light brown eggs and one lays green eggs. I want more! Lol

 

[karlamaria]

got another today, seems a lighter color then the first ever one which I ate right away and took a picture afterwords because I forgot to in the first place.

this is COCO the only Maran I have. told she was a copper Maran


coco's first egg....


my last three pullets that started to lay last week..


and all my girls eggs from the last 3 days. ...

I used a flash this time... arn't they pretty.