PuLLETS +
COCKERELS •
NPIP #1362
- farm pickup only for birds, by appointment in Westport, MAssachusetts -
- order yours below -
2024: BLACK COPPER MARANS & OLIVE EGGERS
We will be offering select pullets and cockerels. They will be offered in limited quantities, based on pre-orders. There’s been many requests over the years!
LOCAL PICKUP
Local pickup only for all birds, by appointment only. We only ship hatching eggs.
THE OFFERS VARY BY YEAR / Black Copper Marans & OLIVE EGGERS
** TWO BIRD MINIMUM **
Black Copper Marans - Lets be realistic. There’s a 50/50 chance of males and females at hatch. There is a 95% hatch rate for our Black Copper Marans. We would love for you to add a couple BCM cockerels to your flock! Truly rare, even tempered, great protectors, with excellent manners. They are big boys, and make a great backyard rooster and have the genes necessary for future generations of rainbow eggs!
The Marans are artists. The ink a hen paints on is the last stage of the egg laying process! The Marans lay 4 eggs a week, 5-8 on the Marans color chart! The eggs usually start off light for the first few, but as the hen gets her ink correct (takes about a week) and by the 20th egg that’s the true shade, but it lightens a bit as the hen lays up until her molt (or goes broody). Consider the molt a much needed break, a reset, similar to replacing an ink cartridge.
Realistically, extra cockerels will be harvested once they’ve grown out to 16-20 weeks, and we would love for them to have a flock of their own! It took many years of searching around the country with private Marans breeders, and there was much disappointment before having the line of Marans we have now. We only hatch the darkest eggs.
Olive Eggers - The Olive Eggers are primarily white, with feathered legs, red pea comb. These olive eggers have been years of work! From both our farm, and FCF. F1 means first generation, and so on! The F3, F4 will be Black Copper Marans x Olive Eggers (some eggs with speckles), The F10+ are Olive X Olive - Chicks will have 100% pea combs! We also have a few F10+ Olive hens X BCM Roos. Please see the photos for egg color examples.
- PLEASE READ -
There is a two bird minimum. Based on the hatching timeline for 2024, the 2024 Black Copper Marans + Olive Egger pullets an cockerels will be available for pickup as soon as early JULY (by appointment only at the farm). These chicks will be hatched in April. If you’d prefer to go the straight run chick route we hatch March - June. Those chicks should be preordered in the chick section.
COCKEREL - MALE CHICKEN UNDER ONE YEAR | PULLET - FEMALE CHICKEN UNDER ONE YEAR
