GFF Line French Black Copper Marans Chick (Unsexed)

We are beyond excited to be able to offer you our new GFF Bloodline Line of Black Copper Marans chicks from their recently imported French bloodlines from France! Black Copper Marans are known to lay the darkest chocolate brown egg of any chicken breed in the world! 

The past 3 other common bloodlines known in the US are Bev Davis, Little Peddler and Wade Jean lines but all 3 lines have seemed to lack the consistent dark egg shell qualities. Though the previous bloodlines are beautful and can lay dark eggs, our new Black Copper Marans from the recently imported bloodlines blew us away with how dark of eggs they produce for us. They consistently lay the darkest eggs that we have ever seen. They also seem to have richer vibrant feather colors with more full feathering on their legs and feet. Some offspring can have white feathering in their wings and feet and seem to disappear as they get older. We are also working on breeding away from the white in the feathers while still selecting the darkest egg producing hens in our breeding program. 

Other known Marans color varieties are white Marans, Splash Marans, and Blue Birchen Marans but the Black Copper Marans are known to lay the darkest egg of them all. Though we consistently can get 6 and up to 8 on the Marans egg color chart commonly used to judge Marans egg color, we cannot guarantee your hens from the chicks from us will all produce such dark eggs as each hen is destined to produce a different level of dark eggs than each other. Marans are also the one chicken breed that's egg color can change over its lifetime and time of the year. Other chicken breeds lay the same egg color they first produce the rest of their life but the Marans egg color is usually darkest when they first start laying and can lighten over the course of their life as well as time of the year can affect the darkness of their egg shell. 

Marans are a breed that are always spelled with the letter "S" at the end, whether talking about 1 bird or many birds. They are a dual-purpose breed created in France in the 1800's.This breed is made its way into America a couple decades ago. In 2011 Black Copper Marans were accepted into the breed standard by the APA, "American Poultry Association" for poultry show competitions. For those interested in showing in poultry show competitions, whether showing for the darkest eggs or the bird itself, our new French Black Copper Marans bloodline should catch the poultry judges attention. 

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