Marans EGGS picked up and Placed in Incubator!

I am pretty excited, on Saturday morning I met this guy in a Mcdonald's parking lot in front of Magic Mountain and purchased a dozen Maran chicken eggs. He threw in three olive egger eggs and a gray egg that he also had.  So what makes these eggs special is that they are chocolate brown. The seller claimed that the hen and the rooster are Copper Marans. This breed of chicken lays the darkest brown eggs of any chickens. The only problem is to check and now have to incubate the eggs for 20 days.  On day five or six I will candle the eggs to make sure that they are fertile, to begin with.  The eggs will be kept at 100 degrees and approx. 65 percent humidity in an incubator.  The eggs were placed in the incubator on 10/24, the effs should hatch on Nov 13th.

Things we can do with the eggs in the future! If these eggs do have the dark brown gene we can then cross the hen/rooster with a blue laying hen/rooster and get the green color.