Blue Splash Marans
A variety of the Marans
Chicken · Chocolate eggs · Laying
Also known as Blue Splash Maran
At a glance
- Origin
- France
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus
- Eggs per year
- ~200
- Egg colour
- Chocolate
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Low
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Purity
- Pure
About the Blue Splash Marans
The Blue Splash carries two copies of the blue-dilution gene, producing a pale, off-white plumage irregularly streaked and dappled with soft blue-grey and fawn-copper splashes — the markings can even reach the legs. Bred mainly within Black Copper blue lines, splash birds breed true and, crossed back to black-based stock, throw the prized coppery-blue offspring. Like all Marans they lay the breed's famously dark chocolate-brown eggs, though Blue and Splash sit outside the official French and British standards.
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