[lucylou]

do maran bantams lay brown eggs? - i bought a maran  and a RIR bantie on saturday and when we got home there was a white egg in the box, i think it was the maran that laid it but i thought they laid brown eggs - or am i being completely ignorant!! - egg was of course delicious!

[Hensington]

Marans usually lay a dark brown egg, RIR usually lay an off white to light brown egg.

It may of been the RIR that laid? If not it could be the strain of Maran that just doesn't lay dark eggs, which would be a shame as thats what they are famed for, but this can be lost in show birds.
My barnevelders lay quite a light egg for a breed thats supposed to lay dark eggs.

[lucylou]

its a cuckoo maran.  yeah maybe it was the rir, but wasnt expecting her to be laying yet - hope it was tho as would like dark brown eggs from the maran!. will just have to wait & see - many thanks, lou

[joyfull]

Marans usually do lay dark brown but as pointed out not all, my cuckoo lays really dark brown and my copper blue chicks were advertised as to be from dark egg laying strain. (only 1 week old today - but the eggs they hatched from were nice and very dark) - of course that is depending on the breeder making sure that no other cockerel got to the hen. Hopefully the egg is from your rir