[bloomer]

Good news, I got my first Maran egg from the 2 girls i kept from the ones i brought to Scotland from Darkbrowneggs.


Bad news, one of my 2 cream legbars i kept from the same trip, was a bit sluggish yesterday and overnight just fell off her perch, typically it was the better looking of the 2 as well...


But yay i got a Maran egg....

[Sudanpan]

Congrats on the maran egg 
Sorry about the legbar 

[Mammyshaz]

Sorry to hear about the legbar 

Enjoy your maran egg, hope that it's an indication the legbars will start soon 

[Rosemary]

 

[HesterF]

Need a picture - just to admire the colour!

[Big Light]

Aye good with bad mate the cream legbars haven't started laying yet but will sort you out with some eggs / chicks if you want later in the season

[darkbrowneggs]

oowww  Bad luck with the cl     good news on the marans though 

[bloomer]

@ biglight more than likely take you up on that...


will post a photo of the egg tomorrow although i posted it to FB and it has been much admired by my non-smallholder friends who assume all eggs are beige!!!

[Anke]

although i posted it to FB and it has been much admired by my non-smallholder friends who assume all eggs are beige!!!

We had urban friends and their children staying one year when  a batch of chicks was hatching... they were astounded that my (Maran type) chicks were black and fluffy... and not yellow and fluffy...

PS.: The wee cockerel I got from you is doing fine and as he is in with the young ones (they just started laying recently) he is taking his job  quite seriously... My daughter has named him Laurie.

[ellied]

Still in Maran envy, so post the picture and I can at least say I know someone who has a brown egg

[bloomer]

My Maran Egg, and a normal egg for comparison!!!

[Hartwelljulie]

oh my word! egg envy!!!!! beautiful...enjoy 

[Mammyshaz]

  very much brown egg envy. Think I'll be looking up marans for mynhead hatch batch 

[Big Light]

Nice colour

[bloomer]

and she laid another one today, hopefully some of the others in my small flock will learn/remember soon what eggs are!!!