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Katieowl

Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Posts: 4317
Location: West Wales

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 11 6:32 pm Post subject: Sue...Oh SUE???? I has a dark...
BROWN EGG!!!! The first one froze yesterday..Grrr. Second one, laid today is beautiful, and your girl (girls) are the first back into lay....clever Marrans Kate

matt_hooks

Joined: 01 Aug 2010
Posts: 312
Location: Lambourn(ish) Berkshire

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 11 6:37 pm Post subject:
Ours have been laying for a few days, we just had boiled Maran egg for tea. Ours aren't pure dark brown at the moment, more a speckledy dark brown on normal egg colour. Is that something that we're doing, or just the fact that they're new layers?

kirstyfern

Joined: 03 Jan 2010
Posts: 1574
Location: Great Dunmow, Essex

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 11 6:39 pm Post subject:
Yippee

Katieowl

Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Posts: 4317
Location: West Wales

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 11 6:39 pm Post subject:
The one that froze was a very even brown. The second one is dark all except one end, when the colour sort of ran out LOL! But a very good first attempt at laying an egg IMHO Kate

Faithmead

Joined: 07 Mar 2008
Posts: 1228
Location: Carmarthenshire/Pembrokeshire border

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 11 6:48 pm Post subject:
Jealous jealous and more jealous

windyridge

Joined: 03 Oct 2010
Posts: 2732
Location: Up the garden from Henry

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 11 7:02 pm Post subject:
Mmmm I know we are just about to have a roast pork dinner but I can taste boiled eggs... with buttered brown bread... oooohhhh.... maybe tomorrow

darkbrowneggs

Joined: 14 Jul 2010
Posts: 663
Location: Worcestershire

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 11 7:16 pm Post subject:

Well done all of you and your girls.

As I have posted before - I find that the first 20 or so eggs are very variable as to shape, size, colour, shell texture and shine. So wait to judge.

Someone who had some eggs from me last year reckons his girls have been laying for 5 weeks and are laying 7's and 8's

I'm really jealous as mine arent doing as well - but I am trying to trap nest them this year, and it is really putting them off

Did you know stress can affect egg colour, as can clean or unclean water, access to free range, quality of feed etc etc etc etc. Why didn't I pick an easier breed??

All the best
Sue

Chickem

Joined: 27 Mar 2009
Posts: 3958
Location: Sunny Devon

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 11 7:22 pm Post subject:
Well done girls!

SandraR

Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 2346
Location: Devon

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 11 8:08 pm Post subject:
Fantastic ..mine are teasing me, both are very red and keep popping in and out of the house but nothing yet

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9717
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 11 2:10 pm Post subject:

SandraR wrote:

Fantastic ..mine are teasing me, both are very red and keep popping in and out of the house but nothing yet

sounds like it will be soon

saying that - the welsummers I got from you Sandra are laying lovely dark eggs

SandraR

Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 2346
Location: Devon

Posted: Mon Jan 31, 11 2:17 pm Post subject:
Pleased to hear it. All 6 of my Welsummer pullets are laying - at least 5 eggs a day from the 6. All lovely and dark and a good size Still waiting on the marans...if they would only spend less time chasing any and everything that came within their 'territory' and concentrated a little harder

SandraR

Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 2346
Location: Devon

Posted: Sat Feb 05, 11 1:32 pm Post subject:
The first of the marans - the darkest - has finally laid. She has looked so close to lay for a while now. The egg a simialr colour to the lightest of my Welsummers only gloss rather than matt.

pookie

Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Posts: 4984
Location: Mid-Wales

Posted: Sat Feb 05, 11 4:29 pm Post subject:
A couple of mine have started too, 1st one laid a reasonably brown egg and now I have one (or possibly two) laying these..... white egg just for contrast....

Jo S

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 5174
Location: Somerset

Posted: Sat Feb 05, 11 4:32 pm Post subject:
jealous

SandraR

Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 2346
Location: Devon

Posted: Sat Feb 05, 11 4:38 pm Post subject:
Beautiful Rosie... much darker than mine

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