Marans ?

[Crazyfarmlady25]

I have 2 French black copper marans that were the ones I wanted the most last year. I'm thinking i want to get a blue or splash... really a splash maran but not sure if there is much of a difference between French copper marans and just bbs marans.

 

[Cloverr39]

I believe the difference is that French copper marans have the copper hackles and regular bbs don't. If you want to keep the copper color in their chicks, get a blue or splash copper. You can breed black copper to plain splash too, you'll just get varying amounts of copper in the hackles of the chicks.