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Chickens French Black Copper Maran HATCHING Eggs - $68 (Republic)
N Township Rd 175 near 138
condition:
excellent
make / manufacturer:
Mother Nature
model name / number:
French Black Copper Marans
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For local pick up you must place an order and pay for it before pick up. We have too many no shows. We take paypal, venmo, and personal check. The hens are laying, and the eggs are dark! Contact us for a firm date/availability.
If we have extra at the time of packing we will include extra eggs! Right now we have Black/Blue Cochin Eggs, Ayam Cemanti Eggs, and Maran.
WE DO NOT SHIP CHICKENS EVER! We do have hatching eggs.
- purebred Laying the eggs Martha Stewart says are the absolute best! Nice large egg. The eggs are the darkest brown compared to chocolate in color.
Our Breeds and price list are at (Hatchery Exotica) or RavenwoodFarmShop.com, look for the Hatchery link.
WE DO NOT SHIP CHICKENS EVER
Hatching Eggs Available Now($4.00-$5.00 Each Mix and Match): Ayam Cemani (All Black), French Black Copper Marans (Chocolate Eggs), Jungle Fowl (Red), Liege Fighters (White Hackle),Shamo/Asil(Black, Red, Wheaton/Blonde), Olive Egger (Green Eggs), Ayam Cemani Rainbow Hybrid (Green Eggs)
Available Later In The Season:
German Bielefelder, Jungle Fowl ( Red ), Liege Fighters (Red and White Hackle Coloring), Red Shouldered Yokohama, Shamo / Asil (Black, White, Red, Wheaton/Blonde, and Spangled), Malay, Easter Egger, Brahma Light, Deathlayers.
Ravenwood Farm is an organic permaculture farm, selling organic, heirloom, (NON-GMO ) plants and seeds, and rare and exotic chickens. We are mindful of the earth and the plant and animal kingdoms, practicing sustainability. Our Animal Friends are fed an all organic diet, filtered water, fresh greens, and herbs. We do not use chemicals, pharmaceuticals, or vaccines. Our seeds and hatching eggs are planted and hatched using the moon phases method of planting (growth and decline, waxing and waning phases).
Marans (the name is always spelled with the ‘s’ whether talking about a single bird or many birds) are fine dual-purpose chickens from France. Marans is a port town in France, and the breed originated from a now untraceable mix of chickens that were left in the town by seafarers in the 1800s. The birds were originally bred as fighting cocks, but some random combination of matings produced a bird that became popular for the barnyard. By the early 1920s the breed had been clearly established. From France the breed migrated to England and then in the past few decades to America. In 2011, black copper Marans were accepted into the breed standard by the American Poultry Association.
Although Marans are an excellent meat bird, their outstanding and unique attribute is the shell color of the plentiful eggs that they lay. Marans lay an egg that has a shell the color of dark chocolate; so dark that at times it borders on being black. And when cracked open, the yolk of free-range birds is bright orange, bursting with vitamins, protein and fats from its healthy lifestyle. While a typical store-bought egg has a yolk that is runny and flaccid, the free-range Marans produce yolks that have ‘muscle tone;’ little orange domes that jut skyward from the egg white. Marans have the reputation for laying the best-tasting chicken egg in the world. (Perhaps, for these reasons, the author Ian Fleming identified Marans eggs as those most preferred by James Bond.)
Ravenwood farm is an all organic permaculture farm, all of our animals are fed a completely organic diet, with large outside pens. We have rare and exotic chickens, an online store selling organic Seeds and Plants - Thank you