Splash Marans
A variety of the Marans
Chicken · Chocolate eggs · Laying
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About the Splash Marans
Splash carries two copies of the Andalusian blue gene, giving a pale near-white ground broken by irregular slate-blue splashes. Bred to a Black it produces 100% Blue offspring, making it valuable for blue programmes. It is a non-standard colour but lays the breed's characteristic dark egg.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Chocolate
- Eggs per year
- About 200
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Low
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Origin
- France
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus