What does Birchen mean in chickens?
What does Birchen mean in chickens?
Birchen is a variety or “color”. Birchen is the same variety as gray.
What color are Birchen Marans?
This hardy variety of French Marans, with Birchen plumage, lay deep, dark chocolate brown eggs–as dark as we’ve seen!
What are Birchen Marans?
Blue Birchen Marans are one of the rarest types of Marans. This breed is also sometimes referred to as Black Silver Marans or just Silver Marans. They lay beautiful brown eggs that resemble the color of a terra-cotta planting pot. This breed carries the blue gene and can come in blue, black, or splash color patterns.
Are black Birchen Marans rare?
As for other color varieties, our blue birchen Marans are known to reliably produce some of the darkest chocolate-colored eggs in this country. We imported blue birchen Marans from two different European flocks. Blue birchen Marans are extremely rare in the United States….
| Egg Color | brown |
|---|---|
| Country of Origin | France |
How many eggs do 55 Flowery hens lay?
The hens are truly productive layers, and the eggs are the largest of any of the breed we maintain. These medium-sized hens lay a vast amount of XL white eggs and average well in excess of 250 eggs per year.
Is there such a thing as a blue Birchen Maran?
Blue birchen Marans are extremely rare in the United States. Greenfire Farms maintains the largest breeding flock of blue birchens in this country, and our birds lay beautiful dark brown eggs typical of the breed.
What kind of Maran does Greenfire farms use?
Greenfire Farms has imported from Europe three varieties of Marans: black copper, blue birchen, and white. Each variety is uniquely beautiful and all produce exquisite eggs. In French poultry shows Marans compete in two distinct categories: eggs and exhibition.
What kind of chickens come from Greenfire farms?
We breed imported black copper, blue birchen, and white varieties. Marans (the name is always spelled with the ‘s’ whether talking about a single bird or many birds) are fine dual-purpose chickens from France.
Where can I buy black copper Marans in France?
The French national Marans show fosters the greatest competition among that nation’s top Marans breeders. In 2018, we imported black coppers from Marans bloodlines that recently won the top honors at the French national show in both the eggs and exhibition categories.