Few years ago I had a bit of a Dark Egg obsession
I bred Welsummers and Marans at the time and the best eggs were a Welsummer cockerel over a Cuckoo Marans hen ( also Sex linked)
I love Welsummers but the Marans I have now are better utility birds and they suit my meat bird project as well and with a bit of look will add in a dark ish egg,
So I'm doing one more batch of chicks and thinking of layers I'm doing the Sasso x Marans cross again (with a few IG eggs thrown in).
The cockerels from the last batch are looking really meaty but I only got 1 Pullet out, so not enough to really test the cross on egg size and laying.
The Sasso's have layed about every day since they were 18 weeks.
A nice big egg as well so together who knows.