Build your flock on your terms! Eggs are priced per egg so you can pick and choose how many of each breed you need to complete your basket full of color.
Breed: Black Copper Maran
APA: Yes
Egg Color: Dark Brown
Egg Production: 3/week
Breed Facts: The Black Copper Maran is the standard in Chocolate Brown egg layers. Their first egg will be their darkest and lighten with each egg until she molts. Then the cycle repeats.
We breed this line specifically for the darkest chocolate eggs we can get. Hens that lay lighter brown eggs are removed from this line to ensure only the darkest of egg layers.
We can save the darkest eggs over the course of a month and post a picture of a dozen really dark chocolate eggs. While this can make for an interesting picture to showcase the best of the best that isn't what we have included here. The fact is, the color varies between molts from the same bird. We will send you the darkest eggs we find in the nest box that were laid in the last 24 hours before your order ships.
Darker eggs can be harder to hatch and we hatch these seperately from other colored eggs for best results.
We feed our girls only the best chemical free certified organic feed.
Black Copper Maran Hatching Eggs
Shipping on Hatching Eggs
We ship hatching eggs Monday through Wednesday, depending on when the hens lay and the weather. We strive to ship within 24 hours of the egg being laid. Eggs that are older than 48 hours go in the incubator, to the farmers market or the food bank. We don’t have the ability to store and keep eggs.
Hatching Eggs are shipped via UPS unless directed otherwise. The option is available for expedited at an additional charge. UPS does not have x-ray equipment so there is no possibility your eggs will be exposed during transit.
It is highly advised that west coast customers take the optional upgrade to UPS 2-Day Shipping, especially during the high heat summer months.
They have arrived!
Once your eggs arrive let them “rest” inside in a carton with the pointy end down largest end up. Do not put cold eggs into an incubator they will crack.Eggs ship from Alabama, where it is extremely humid, eggs are collected throughout the day and transfered to a climate controlled room (with 40% relative humidity) where they are either packed and shipped or set to hatch. Even with this limited time before leaving it is possible your eggs will have a smaller air cell than eggs produced in more arid climates. You should adjust your incubating settings accordingly for your method of incubation. We utilize the dry hatching method.