#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!

[bonefarm]

Guess what?

[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 😬

[aqueenvictorious]

in search of chimkin

Greetings hello! My mom is getting new chicks for her flock, and I have

F I N A L L Y

convinced her to get something besides Ameraucanas.

To that end! Chicken people of tumblr: are there any good sources of Black Copper Marans on the US West coast? I'm in central California, but I don't mind driving a bit to get chicks from a reliable, reputable source.

[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.

[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.

[bonefarm]

My scrankles ft their step dad Reginald.

[coneygoil]

My beta reader

[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.

[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.

[tomorrowsgardennc]

chicken update // february 18th

well i was gonna wait until i got these projects done to post an update... but between being sick and another winter storm coming in, it's gonna be a couple weeks before i can get back in to it. so here... we... CLUCK!@&&!

first off: the chicken schedule was released by the local hardware store!

it's been out for a month, and it's less than a month before they arrive. therefore, i believe possibly maybe i have narrowed down the breeds i will be getting. i expected them to get copper marans but *blue* ones?! mando. ideal 236 is actually the only breed they're offering with white eggs, interestingly enough. which is fine - stereotypical chicken is still stereotypically cute. now... the olive eggers. i KNOW i want olive eggers... i have wanted those since i started researching chicken breeds years ago. but the hardware store threw in a curveball and added ONYX olive eggers?!?! excuuuuuse me?! goth chickens yes please!! but they will not arrive at the hardware store until april 25th, an entire month after i get the other 2 breeds. plus, i am legit worried about our hot summers just getting hotter. there's a reason i'm only gothic during the cold months (joke). normie olive eggers are available the same day i'll be getting the other 2 breeds. what do you guys think??

the chicken nursery aka brooder (married millennial with no kids means the name changes to nursery instead of brooder i don't make the rules) is 99% done!! couple weeks ago i built the litter box drawer that goes under the nursery from spare wood we had. it was partically molded from being outside, so i did the same bleach clean sand kilz paint job like i did for the main structure. we keep scrap wood for a reason so buying wood would just make the avrap wood pile useless. the wood for the drawer is much thicker than it has any need to be, but free is free.

the bedding is and will be shredded paper and cardboard. since we can't go shopping at atores like normies, we get a lot of boxes from deliveries so i am not worried about running out of chicken bedding.

i was nervous about a heating lamp in my craft room with the door closed most of the time, so hubs and i settled on getting a heating plate. this hesting plate has been turned on high for the past 2 weeks and no issues or fires so far. i added the bedding today and turned down the heat on the plate for another test. on high, without bedding, the area under the heating plate read at 109°F. the handkerchief is to help hold that heat in one place, and has been there since the beginning of the test. will wait and see if needed when the chickens are here.

if we had a garage then i would use a heat lamp - between a typical fire break between garage and house, then i wouldn't care. but the craft room has majority of my business stuff, and is right next to the master bedroom 😬 just not worth the fire risk imo.

my craft room is either too cold in winter or too hot in summer due to just where it is and what isn't around it compared to the rest of the house. but will keep a super close eye on them with The Chicken Nursery WebcamTM. yup, i found a very old logitech webcam we bought in the pre-2010s and are going to have it in the nursery and stream the chickens. why? see: married, childless millennials.

the only 2 things left to do on the chicken nursery brooder structure thing is to drill a hole for those two wires to exit out of instead of coming out of the top so that i can install "locks" so the top cannot be opened by the cats. the craft room door will be open when i am in the room so the cats can come and go, but will be closed when i am not in the room. even though 4 out of 5 cats are indoor only, i still want them to get used to chickens being "normal" and not "dinner."

speaking of, here is my cat tax. when i was filling the bedding in the drawer, parsley was such a big help playing with the shreds that fell on the floor.

the prep work for the outdoor coop and run has begun, but only just. we did as much as we could during the false spring weather we got about 2 weeks ago. once this winter storm goes away for good, it looks like the weather will be nice again to go back to work on it. hopefully, this flu of ours will be gone by then 🫠

[paranoidgemsbok]

Do you have any new pictures of ur chickens on hand... May I see some...

YEAHG everyone is inside right now because it's fucking frigid out

Eileen (copper maran, big fucking bully, knows how pretty her shiny feathers are)

Vanilla Bean (dark brahma, also a bully but she's head bitch so she doesn't have to flex it as much)

Truffle (white crested black polish bantam, sweet bippy baby who have never done anything wrong loves to be held)

Mushroom (gold laced wyandotte, the young upstart, bites very hard but is known to be so cuddly)