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Barnevelder Chicken
$32.00 – $35.00Price range: $32.00 through $35.00
The Barnevelder chicken originates from the Barneveld region of Holland and known for laying a dark brown egg. This beautiful bird has a single comb, is hardy and quiet and doesn’t mind being confined. The breed was first recognized by the American Standard of Perfection in 1991. Hatchery®’s Barnevelders breeding stock will produce feathering of partridge single laced and double laced feather pattern. Each year breeding season our objective is to breed more for the double laced pattern. The Barnevelder chicken is rare to find in the USA but becoming more popular each year. To buy Barnevelder chickens, please select your quantity under 50 above.
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Cuckoo Marans Chicken
$32.00 – $35.00Price range: $32.00 through $35.00
The Marans is now officially a recognized breed of the Continental Class by the American Poultry Association. The Cuckoo Marans were developed in France in the town of Marans during the mid 1800’s. It is a dual purpose bird and is known for its deep chocolate brown eggs though some eggs may have some speckled dark pigments in the egg shell. The brown egg color can vary in darkness as the hens go through their laying cycles. Vitamin K and calcium can have some limited help with keeping the dark brown egg shell color. They are a fast growing bird and a very rare breed here in the United States. The Cuckoo Marans have a black and white feather color pattern similar to the Barred Plymouth Rock. Hatchery®’s Cuckoo Marans have limited/to no feathers on their legs and are a production type blood line.
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Dark Brown Egg Female Surplus
$59.00 – $63.00Price range: $59.00 through $63.00
This is a surplus package and may or may not be an assortment. You could receive all 1 breed or an assortment. We do our best to send an assortment if we can but there is no guarantee you will get more than 1 breed..
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French Black Copper Marans Chicken
$32.00 – $35.00Price range: $32.00 through $35.00
The French Black Copper Marans are a rare breed not often seen in the United States. An import ban reduced the genetic diversity of the French Black Copper Marans and flocks of this chicken are therefore hard to find. Hatchery® carefully breeds this chicken to improve genetic diversity and advance the health of the chicken. “This breed lays an egg with a light red color to light chocolate bloom color on the shell that are a favorite among chefs and farmers alike. Due to the rarity of this breed, limited quantities are available so order yours as soon as possible and contact us to find out when new chicks are available. Our cackle flocks lay eggshell colors of 4-8 on the French Marans Egg color chart found in the gallery with 5% laying a color 9 for the 2022 season. Each season we are able to improve the shell color through selective breeding and infusing new bloodlines into our breeding program.
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French Black Marans Chicken
$32.00 – $35.00Price range: $32.00 through $35.00
The rich, black feathers that give the French Black Marans its name also give it a distinct difference from its sister Marans chickens. Like the other Marans chickens, this breed produces dark brown eggs other chickens cannot duplicate. Also, like the other Marans breeds, it originates from the Marans region of France, and a poultry import ban limited the number of Marans chickens in the U.S., making it a rare breed. Hatchery® produces a limited number of these fine black chickens each year. Order yours in advance to add this rare chicken to your flock. Our cackle flock lays egg shell colors of 5-8 on the French Marans Egg color chart found in the gallery.
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French Black Tail Buff Marans Chicken
$59.00 – $63.00Price range: $59.00 through $63.00
The French call this color, “Fauve á Queue Noire”, and was first shown at an exhibition in Paris in 1932. This is a breeding project in development within Hatchery™ breeding program. Anticipating offering in 2024. Our Cackle flock lays egg shell colors of 7-9 on the French Marans Egg color chart found in the gallery.
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French Black Tailed Red Marans
$32.00 – $35.00Price range: $32.00 through $35.00
This line was established from birds selected by prominent breeders throughout the US and is still a project in the works. Hatchery started this project in 2016 along with some bloodlines from Bill Grover. The hens are capable of laying eggs as dark as any other Marans. Selection should reflect a balance of type, egg color, as well as the chestnut feather color of the New Hampshire. The French Standard suggests the variety should, “correspond to those of the New Hampshire breed in color”.
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French Golden Salmon Marans Chicken
$23.00 – $25.00Price range: $23.00 through $25.00
The Golden Salmon Marans (Project) rooster plumage is very different than the hen’s which corresponds to it. It is close to the brown-red plumage but it is especially very similar to the froment (french term for wheat or wheaten) cock’s. It also has a coppery finery on a black plumage background to which is added a citananon-fawn colored wing miror and not the black miror of the brown-red variety. The breast must be black with a duller black abdomen. The hackles and the lancets are coppery colored with variable tonalities (from orangery to golden-coppery shades) and possibly bordered or not with black flames. The back and the small of the back are auburn-red colored with dark and velvet red shoulders. The miror is of course fawn or cinnamon brown colored and made up of folded wing secondary remexs. The tail is black, the primary remexs are pure and black and they make the armband. The cock also has on the tail base on the rump, a tuft of ash-gray downy feathers. The hen has a hackle that is light golden colored with black tips on a salmon reddish-brown breast. This latter color is close to the gray tone around the belly underside and the tail and close to reddish tones on the thighs. Be careful, this salmon color of the breast is a fundamental mark of this genetic variety. It gives its name to the variety and allows to avoid all confusion with the real genetic “partridge” variety which never owns the least salmon tonality and which moreover seems not to exist in Marans. The coat is blackish-brown colored made up of a fine and blackish filigree on the feather. The coat shows a general warmer and brown tonality whereas that for the real “partridges”, their shades have a quite colder and darker tonality. The wing remexs as well as the tail candal are also blackish-brown with little brown dots.
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French Marans Female Surplus
$59.00 – $63.00Price range: $59.00 through $63.00
This Marans Surplus can include any mix of the following. This product does not guarantee an assortment and can also be all the same breed.
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French Wheaten Marans Chicken
$33.00 – $35.00Price range: $33.00 through $35.00
“The Marans are now officially a recognized breed of the Continental Class by the American Poultry Association. The Wheaten variety was recognized in October of 2011 at the Crossroads Show in Indianapolis, Indiana”. The Wheaten line carries feathered shanks and amber eyes with light wheaten colored feathers. These birds are friendly, sociable and active. Roosters are very calm and can co-habitat nicely with each other. French Wheaten Marans are bred to lay dark chocolate eggs and are considered gourmet eggs. With the dark eggs during the laying cycle, as with all fowl eggs, the color will lighten as the laying season progresses. These are some beautiful birds to be on the farm and a great addition to your flock. Mahogany brown eggs but color with this variety is not as dark as with the Black Copper Marans. While the back color is fairly standard there are a variety of shades for the breast and rear ranging from almost white to deep red clay. Marans lay a large egg 2.3 oz for a pullet to 2.8 oz for a hen. They should have a consistently deep dark red-brown shell (minimum of 3 on the color chart). However with this being said our current flocks in 2015 produced about 5% clean legs. Our cackle flock lays egg shell colors of 5-8 on the French Marans Egg color chart found in the gallery.
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French White Marans Chicken
$23.00 – $25.00Price range: $23.00 through $25.00
The French white Marans chicken has impressively pure white plumage. It is the friendliest and gentlest of all the Marans varieties.
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Welsummer Chicken
$32.00 – $35.00Price range: $32.00 through $35.00
The Welsummer chicken is a Dutch breed named after the village of Welsum in Holland. Developed in the 1900’s it was first imported into this country in 1928 for its large brown egg. The Welsummer eggs will vary in tints of dark brown eggs and most of the eggs will have a real dark speckled pigment in the egg shell. The Welsummer is a large, upright, active bird with a broad back, full breast, large full tail and a single comb. Welsummers have a docile and friendly personality. The famed Kellogg’s Rooster was a Welsummer chicken. The Welsummer roosters are glorious with their beautiful shades of red and black. They are a fast growing bird and a very rare breed here in the United States. Admitted to the American Standard of Perfection in 1991.
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