Marans

delicous eggs cute as a button, hardy babies good chick I recommend them for anybody

My little Wheaten Maran pullet is very sweet, however she is 30 weeks and I am still waiting on eggs!

2 Marans

I live in the suburbs and have a small backyard. I have 2 chickens: a Marans and a Barred Rock. My Cuckoo Marans, Orca, is a very sweet, medium-sized bird. I get a large, dark brown egg from her every day, and a double yolked egg weekly. She isn't the biggest people-chicken, but she isn't too shy either and willingly eats out of my hand. I would highly recommend this breed for backyard flocks. I got her when she was 3 months old, so I don't know what they are like as chicks.

I absolutely love my Marans.
I have french Silver Cuckoos and Blue Coppers and they are the smartest most friendly hens and cocks.
They are my mainstay layers, easily counted on to produce the jumbo to XL dark brown egg.
Chicks hatch easily & are thrifty and healthy.
hens not as broody as other breeds so I can count on these hens to take care of my egg orders.not to mention they are hefty & produce a nice heavy carcass and keep the feed bill paid by eating egg sales year round.

I have had two roosters and a hen (black copper). They are quite beautiful but I had to get rid of the roosters because they make a terrible noise! And I enjoy my other rooster's crows! It was like Ooooooooh- ooooooh- ahhhhhooooh. Really deep and mournful and irritating. They are skittish & flighty. The hen is over 7 months, maybe 8, and has yet to lay. I think if I want chocolate layers I should go with welsummers. But super beautiful, love the feathered legs!!!

this is a very good chicken and for me, i think i would say it is 5 stars. it always wants to be the leader, and it makes a good one. it treats the ladies nice, so if you want chicks this is a good chicken for you

My marans have the most interesting crow. I hope I have a hen in this batch of chicks. I want dark terracota eggs!

a very good layer and got her own character

I bought eggs and hatched 9 chicks also have 6 coppers in the incubator right now

Great chickens, easy to raise, very good egg production.

I've raised both blues and wheatens for a couple years. Last fall, due to space, I went down to just Wheatens and then lost both roos to a dog attack. I love the wheaten color, and my birds have had very good dark egg color. Their personalities have been very gentle and calm. The hens forage well. I had broody hens in my blue flock. I will rebuild my wheaten flock.

I will probably always have a few Marans because I love the color of the eggs and the amazing richness of them. But I had no eggs from Sept. through Dec. and had to buy eggs from a local farmer. I'll get better layers for production, but they won't be as beautiful as the Marans.

They are not a social as my younger Welsummers, but get along well with the flock. One 9 mo. old did just roll over and die two nights ago. She was fine one minute and then she was gone.

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My next door neighbor had white Marans when I was a child. These birds were much cleaner than our Leghorns, they thrived in the muddy pasture and often hatched chicks. I got interested a few decades back and have every color in the book. They are just plain fun. If there wasn't so much out crossing and false advertising from people trying to make easy money we could have a great breed in the Marans. Unfortunately the Marans craze created a lot of unethical people, who hatched and sold all sorts of substandard stock. Now it is what it is.

If I had known then what I know now I think I would have passed on my desire for BCMs. Even from better than average lines hatches were not fantastic. Found they are not very hardy during winter- frostbite, etc., mysterious losses, not to predators, just would keel over with no signs of sickness. On the plus (when grown) gorgeous eggs, very calm and endearing birds, beautiful to see out in their pens and pasture.

One word of advice, buy chicks or eggs locally if at all possible. I think my biggest mistake was trying to hatch shipped eggs, but that was my only option at the time. you can sink alot of money in eggs with a very small return...

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Just started with some from a local breeder and hatched a few from a BYC seller. They are the sweetest I have raised. Even the two Roos I have are incredibly docile. I have tried several breeds, this is one I'll be sticking with!

i own 2 cuckoo marans, nice big birds, eggs are a nice dark brown colour

Very happy with our Cuckoo Marans. Showed very motherly instincts from two weeks old, letting newborns crawl under her for warmth. Content with company or by herself doing her own thing. Began laying nearly every day at 25 weeks. Eggs getting darker and larger each day.