welsummer eggs vs maran eggs

The meat quality on Welsummers is impressive. 6+ Blue Copper Marans Hatching eggs. The Welsummer is a good addition to the flock if you want spotted terra cotta eggs! :-( I've never had cuckoos....only blue, splash and black copper. The red-brown, terra-cotta colored eggs with speckles come from Welsummer chickens, and the light-brown ones are laid by Delaware chickens.

(FYI: blue and blue copper are not officially recognized colors)and the big bad secret no one wants to tell you....I mean, compared to store bought eggs then yeah...sure, Marans eggs are better.
Though Marans do not lay as many speckled eggs as Welsummers do, Marans lay some enviable dark brown eggs. I have a splash male, 2 black/copper hens, 2 blue(lavender)hens, a a splash hen. It is so interesting how different everyone's experience is.

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The rest kind of fall in the middle. I’ve owned breeds with better production, but the Welsummers do layThough the carcasses aren’t large, there is more to a meat bird than the size of the chicken. Welsummer chickens are unique because they are a dark brown color with darker speckles. I appreciate the knowledge that the eggs get lighter as the hens get older and also through the laying season. I was so sad. The Marans club of America website has a list with the breed standards. They'll still follow the pattern of darker in the spring and lighter by fall though they'll never again get as dark as that first year.As stated in #5 though, it is dependant on the parent's egg color and many breeders are working on only breeding for the darkest egg color in all colors of Marans. Quote:Be sure to let us know who is LOUDER when they get to POL ( point of Lay) around 5 - 6 months old.
They are in the Top Ten of foragers and will supplement their feed well with tasty garden morsels if you allow them to. Ok, quick genetics rundown: If your splash rooster breeds with your splash hens all of the offspring will be splash. I have not replaced her yet, but I will. Banty cochins are awesome...so darn cute and fluffy.

We have 3 Welsummers. Mine always hatch solid colored and develop the splash colors after they're first true feathers came in. I think it may be easier to sell eggs for hatching from Marans than Welsummer but if you have no intention of that it does not matter. $16.75 4d 18h +$14.90 shipping. The winter egg production drop off issue. They are friendly and slightly stand-offish.

Our black copper Maran is very quiet and doesn't approach us much, but we only got one, so it is kind of hard to judge. All mine were quiet as babies - - - but when they reach POL the true bird shows itself LOLI wish my Maran eggs would have hatched :( The egg color is beautiful! If he breeds with the blue hen then 1/2 of those chicks will be splash and the other half will be blue. I was able to get me to broody hens and have had 2 hatchings. 1. Pullet eggs average 1.96 oz (55.5 g) just a hair shy of the USDA "large" classification of 2.00 oz. Thank you for this info.You are definitely not losing your mind! Marans are also a dual purpose breed, but they weigh a few more pounds than Welsummers. I have a question - are your Marans noisy hens? More risk of bacterial infection. Darker than lots of Marans eggs I've seen from good lines. She lets me pet her, even though we never handle them much. Here is a sample of the eggs laid by our Welsummer flock. An overall review on Welsummers. If you choose to breed Welsummers, there is a market for the birds since they are still pretty new in the United States.For a breed that isn’t incredibly popular in the average backyard flock, they’re probably pretty popular in your kitchen cabinet. I kept telling my husband that the eggs were not dark anymore and they were so wonderfully dark when I first got them. Later someone else told me she was just an ordinary sex-link. Marans eggs are the same except for a few differences in color.She will repeat this cycle throughout her lifetime however they will lighten up a bit after the first year or two.

this year i got in cuckoo marans, copper black marans, road island reds and welsummers among many other breeds and hatched from all 4 breeds and others. If the hen that laid those eggs was bred with a rooster that came from a darker egg, the chick that hatches could grow up to lay a slightly darker egg.

We are new to chickens, and ordered just 1-3 hens of 9 different breeds. When it comes to chicken keeping mistakes though, some of them...Chickens can be expensive.

They are calm, they lay well, my customers love the dark speckles on the already dark egg. JavaScript is disabled. I have all different sizes and shapes of coops. $176.96 +$15.95 shipping. With that said, they aren’t the largest dual purpose birds I’ve seen in my years of chicken keeping. They're a good flock bird and get along with every breed and type of poultry I've had them with. 6+ FRENCH BLACK COPPER MARAN Hatching Eggs Very Dark Chocolate Eggs, Unique. I loved the appearance of the hens, as well as the variety they added to my nesting boxes. All rights reserved.. Theme images by Marans chickens are well known for laying dark brown, almost chocolate colored eggs. Barnevelder and Maran chickens lay a chocolate-colored egg. When a Marans pullet starts laying she will lay very dark brown eggs. According to the hatchery I got them from “Marans lay the darkest eggs of any breed“ and Welsummer are know for “the production of dark reddish brown eggs.” They tend to be a bit reserved, but the roos we've had have all been outstanding flock roos. What causes this?They sound like they're splash. Come join the discussion about livestock, farming, gardening, DIY projects, hobbies, recipes, styles, reviews, accessories, classifieds, and more!