#copper maran chickens

[chickenor]

Blue Copper Marans: Powerful Chickens with Stunning Eggs

Engaging Opening Statement Learn about the appeal of Blue Copper Marans, a fairly unique variety of chickens that are known for their beautiful feathers and even more impressive ability to produce eggs! Popular for their bright blue plumage and the dark chocolate brown eggs they lay, these chickens are a novelty for the poultry and small scale farm growers. However as you browse through the pages…

[hyydraworks]

The three variations of pearled up chickens that will be in this week’s Etsy update!

[occaisional-chunkens]

everyones new favorite snack. its good because its very easy to move the spoon between bird and make sure everyone gets some, and peanut butter is more challenging to steal directly out of another birds mouth before they can swallow.

[thomas--bombadil]

Black-Copper Maran Eggs

These are the darkest eggs that chickens can lay. They look just like they’re made of milk chocolate. 

Some can get a bit darker than these examples, and some can be delightfully speckled, as can be seen above.

NOTE:  If you are sold a black egg, it is not from a chicken. Rather, you may be getting an egg from a bird species that are known to lay black eggs, like a Cayuga duck. Or you may even have been sold an artificially-colored egg. 

[coneygoil]

Why are you sitting like that, Guin??

[journiland]

Speaking of chickens, we're not thrilled with the Copper Maran. She's gone broody three times this summer. Then she has to spend three days in chicken jail, and doesn't lay for another week or so. She'd be at risk of becoming soup if I didn't like seeing her dark brown egg in the carton so much. (Google says Marans only occasionally become broody, but ours apparently didn't read those articles.)

We've been leaning more towards the hybrid chickens since they have better egg production. The 8 we just raised are 3 Amberlinks, 4 Black Sexlinks, and 1 Black Australorp (not a hybrid but I've always wanted one). The dozen new chicks we kept are 4 Amberlinks and 8 Black Sexlinks. (We like the look of the Black Sexlinks better...black with some copper, plus they're supposed to be slightly higher in egg production than the Amberlinks).

Black Sexlinks (the amount of copper can vary from almost none to a ton):

Australorp (Vampire calls her and the Maran demon chickens, because their irises are so dark that their eyes look all black, like when someone is possessed on tv):

Amberlinks:

And the roo (he's an Americauna):

[rob-plucks]

✨Look at all those Chickens✨

My little flock is starting to shape up.

Look out for Ranch Rams colored eggs at a farmers market near you! ( not really , cali only)

I’m getting another 8 next week 😬

[adora-birds]

pretty colours

[jensownzoo]

These eggs come from the same "breed" of chicken, obtained at the same time, same hatch day, same hatchery, and raised together. But! They are a Marans crossbreed bred primarily for egg color and production. The hens look more or less the same, but look at how different their eggs are! (it's end-of-season so the color is a lot lighter--they were properly dark brown at the start of the season)

It does illustrate how variable things can get when you start crossing established breeds with otherwise stable genetics. Which is the attractiveness of pure breeds to most people (and commercial farmers). I like the variation myself, but I was more concerned with production and temperament - color was a bonus.

It does make telling which egg came from which hen ridiculously easy though, which will be important if there are health issues.

[hooksbackyardpoultry10]

Maran Chickens

Marans chickens are valued for their beautiful dark brown eggs, calm demeanor, and dual-purpose capabilities. They make a distinctive addition to backyard flocks and small farms, combining practicality with aesthetic appeal.

[outtaashes]

Hatching Black Copper Marans

I created a video about my success, hatching Black Copper Marans using the dry hatch method. I originally recorded the hatch as a research type project for myself because I hadn't used the dry hatch method before. I had 100% hatch. May have been beginners luck? or maybe this really works well.

[hyydraworks]

New array of chickens, thank you for all the suggestions!  Putting all the breeds so far in the tags, also some new requests came in recently, and a couple people have mentioned silkies?  I’m not sure if I’ll be able to get that adorable fluffy head, but will attempt at some point.

Working on some chicken variations. Might be a little while till I get them in the shop, but if you have chicken breeds you desire let me know. It’s hard with my color palette, but I’ll try my darndest.

[vampawre]

Picked up these girls yesterday! Cage was a temporary one-night thing until I could bring them to the coop, but it's a good picture of them.

The salmon faverolle is Peach, the black copper maran is Daisy, and the easter egger is Rosalina. I definitely have a favorite, but shhh.

At the time of writing this, they're getting used to their new coop.

[coneygoil]

My beta reader

[kedreeva]

There are good things in the world still

Today, I built a cool house in Minecraft! I added a small, secret aquarium to one wall of it, and it turned out GREAT.

Today, I made myself a bowl of popcorn, drizzled it with melted butter (real butter!) and tossed it in a big, silver bowl with some white cheddar powder. The bowl is the perfect size and shape to shake in a specific pattern so the contents slide up uP UP the side, and then like a little delicious wave, crash back down inside the bowl. It's Highly satisfying!

Today, three baby chickens hatched in my incubator. They are black copper marans (although one may be a blue marans), my favorite of the chickens, from a breeder with quality stock. I get to snuggle and spoil them for the next few weeks, and then gift them to my neighbor.

There are good things left in the world, however large or small they may be. This is your invitation to take a moment and find one good thing to reblog and share with others, and/or to look through the notes to find good things others have shared.

[fanaticsnail]

Update on what's going on in the Snail Household

If you're just new to my account, you'd likely not know that chef-husband (how I refer to my husband here) had broken his shoulder in late January, had complications in recovery, had been off work for nearly 5 months to nurse the injury back to health.

I'll put the update under a break here to not take up too much space on your device. If you take the time out of your day to read here, I love you 🖤

He has returned to work now, which is amazing. His apprentices and coworkers had missed him so much, and he is so glad to be back. He is attending some physio appointments and rehabilitative therapies to regain strength - and he is doing very well. I'm so proud of him.

The two breaks were within his armpit, the bone where the socket meets the join. There are also several debris still in there and his ligaments are still very tender from splitting them and the cartilage apart on impact. The injury happened at work, so every medical expense has been covered by his workplace.

While he has enjoyed being back at work, he has been missing home time with Young-Sir & Dottir-Bean (my 4yo & 3yo) and they have been missing their dad when he goes - especially my son when he does the night shift.

I am very proud of him for returning to work, but I do miss him at home too. Very selfish of me to love my husband so much to want him home. 11 years of relationship, almost 9 years of marriage, and he's still my best friend and love of my life. Something about tall men with broad shoulders, who are kind and compassionate, who smoke to cope with stresses at work...

Now that I've said all that, here's a little going on with me, currently.

I am recovering from the flu right now, still all gross and foggy and blocked nosey. The kids have had it and it's always my turn to get it last. It's gross, and I am surviving on black coffee, honey and lemon tea, paracetamol, and numbing throat lozenges.

Now for the uncomfy stuff.

I've had to say goodbye to a friendship of 15 years with someone who, once upon a time, was very important to me. He wrote me a handwritten letter that hurt me very deeply and came across a little yandere. It made me very uncomfortable reading it. Yandere belongs in books fanfiction, not in real life.

The letter was given to me at the Star Wars themed wedding I attended on May the 4th - which I think I posted here in response to an ask from @mfreedomstuff: which I appreciate all the time, love.

I have been speaking to my extended family, and a few mutuals on here have been reassuring me that ending the friendship was the right thing to do. It was sad and I've been having a lot of anger about it that I'm working through.

This is what's been going on for the month of May, alongside finding out one of our prettier chickens was actually a rooster in disguise. He's going to make the most beautiful chicks with our hens - particularly our Araucana. Gonna get a Black Copper Marans Hen one of these days if it's the last thing I do 😤👌.

If you've made it to here, thank you so much for reading. I'll get right back into writing some content for you. Just thought I'd share a little about my personal life here to give you a glimpse into what's going on with me (and why I've been writing so much this month: to deal with all this).

Writing and this community has been such a beautiful aspect of my life, and I have enjoyed getting to know you on here. Even though I am just a snail on here, this part of my life has been so much sunshine amongst the dreary. Love you all, and I'll get right back into the writing soon.