Maran Egg Colour

Chocolate colour eggs from our lovely Maran chicken. The dark colour improved over the next few days, starting with a lighter brown egg (right) with dark speckles to a deep milk chocolate colour (left).

Close up of the first egg

The first egg laid was a darkish brown colour and had dark speckles, which indicated the pigment being laid down unevenly. Well a new hen is still sorting the laying gig out!

I'm still working it out!

The colour deepened over the next few egg lays to a dark, milk chocolate colour and it has remained like that since then.

Lined up like this they look like chocolates don't they?

With a white Leghorn egg as a comparison

Milk and white chocolates?
Healthy Easter Eggs?

Speaking of chocolates, I Chocolat was desperate to lay today and couldn't make up her mind where to lay. Since it was the weekend, the chickens were allowed to free range. Chocolate kept on making a dash from her coop to Penguin's coop. So many decisions? Where to lay, the normal coop or the other coop? It pretty much went on all day and poor Buffy was kept running around with her trying to help her make a nest.

In the end, it was Penguin's coop and in one of the old cupboards!

Just about to lay!

Can you spot the glossy egg?

This was what she laid

It's so glossy.

I am still not sure if this was Chocolat's first egg or she has been laying all this time. Or if it was a combination of both Fromage and Chocolate laying. I have yet to have two dark eggs in the nestbox at the same time, so it makes it very confusing. Chocolats behaviour made me think it was her first egg as she couldn't decide where to lay, but the egg is a very dark colour.

Who knows, well, at least one of the Maran's is a hen. Congratulations Chocolat!

Go hug a chicken!