Copper Black Marans

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Latest Chicken availability as at 5th January 2025

Our breeding stock have just just finished their moult and the hens are beginning their rest period. We have some hens at close to point of lay available now. Our plan is to get some dayold Hyline Browns in during February. These should be ready to lay late Autumn which will give eggs over the winter. Winter eggs are only available in new hens. Hens that have been through a moult will probably not lay over winter. We have some beautiful Swedish Flower Hens now and a few Salmon Faverolles left from our 2024 hatchings. Faverolles are not yet laying and the Swedish are due to start laying in the next few weeks.

New Breeds Available

We are planning two new breeds for 2025. Lavender Leghorns which will lay a white eggs and Opal Legbars. I have no idea what colour the Legbars are going to lay. I am hoping for blue, but who knows.

Hatching Eggs – Not Available now Till 2026

We don’t have hatching eggs available now till Spring 2026. We should be having Salmon Faverolles, Swedish Flower chickens, Opal Legbar, Lavender Leghorn and USA Silkies.

Enquiries – please use Our Contact Form

You can ask us questions using our contact form. We also produce a newsletter when we have stock available or better yet – actual news!! We don’t email very often so we won’t be filling your mailbox with weekly spam.

Latest stock Available Listed below. Price rises with age each Monday

  • Cockerels – All £15 each (Swedish Flower) – stunning,
  • Faverolles – available next year
  • Black Rock ® – Delivery awaited
  • Brown Rock ® – Deliveries at intervals during the year – Awaiting a delivery
  • Cream Legbar – available from Summer 2026
  • Swedish Flower hens – available next year
  • Marsh Daisies – available summer 2026
  • Ixworth – Not currently available
  • Norfolk Grey – available summer 2026
  • Opal Legbar – available from spring 2026
  • USA Silkies – not currently available
  • Hy-line Brown – available in chick form mid March 2026
  • Lavender Leghorn – available summer 2026

Breaking News!!!!

Teacher chicken

Exciting development. Our chicken keeping and incubation courses are now ONLINE. See our Poultry Courses Page for details so you can START ONE TODAY.

Easy to follow

We are hoping that people will find the easy-to-follow bite size chunks an enjoyable experience. It is crammed with masses of information you should know about keeping chickens. It will take you on a deep dive into the fascinating world of this wonderful creature. We guarantee that you will therefore learn things that will make you think about chickens in a totally new light.

Getting it right

It will help you to make good equipment choices, and get your husbandry right. Spotting illness quickly is a biggie because unless you are able to spot sickness, it can rapidly get way out of hand. A slow or wrong diagnosis can then be catastrophic for the chicken.

Easing the burden

Getting the right coop for example will make the cleaning out of your chickens a 10 minute job rather than a real thankless task. We help you get it right, first time. This saves you money and time and who doesn’t need some of that?

Benefits

Chickens are enjoyable however making poor choices can take the shine off it very quickly.

Premium Chickenguard

We are now able to offer Chickenguards for your coops

Having chickens is great but getting up early in the morning however to let them out especially in Summer is not so great.

Fitting a chickenguard on your coop means you can have that lie-in or even just get up at normal time rather than chicken time.

Chickenguards will allow you to go out of an evening and not have to get back at dusk to shut your chooks away. Chickenguard will do it all for you. Your chickens will not demand that you become party poopers.

Battery powered with 4 AA batteries which last from 6 to 12 months.

Visit our shop page for more info

Henlay Coop

We are now stocking Henlays Roost chicken coops.

Perfectly designed coops that are manufactured from 12mm thick recycled plastic sheets. That is thicker than most other plastic coops.

Built with both chicken welfare and human welfare in mind because humans matter too. They look and feel solid.

No more back breaking stooping or crouching to clean out. Contortionism is also not required. Just open the roofline, lift the well spaced perches out and hey presto, the entire coop area is at the mercy of your shovel and scraper.

Red mite will be spotted in double quick time so therefore you can treat if necessary as they have no where to hide.

Visit our shop page for details

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French Copper Black Marans

Copper Black Marans Cockerel

French Copper Black Description

The French Copper Black Marans (always plural) is a large fowl with a stocky build. They are quite friendly. Their main characteristics are the feathered legs (English Marans do not have this) and feathered outside toes. They also lay the most wonderful mahogany reddish brown egg. As the colour is the last thing to be applied to the egg before it is laid it takes quite a long time in “manufacture” to create such a depth of colour. This means that Marans lay steadily well, but not prolific. The eggs are well worth the wait however.

The Copper Black Marans is mostly a black bird which is wonderful glossy oily sheen which glows in the sun. They have copper round the neck hackles and onto the breast. They have feathered legs and the feathering extends down to the outside toe.

Temperament

The French Copper Black Marans is a calm and quiet bird which does not normally cause any flock disharmony.

Breed Size

Classed as Large Fowl but there is a bantam version at a quarter of the size.

Availability

These Copper Blacks are not currently available at Hedgerow Henporium but we tend to stock in late spring.

Eggs

The eggs of a French Copper Black Marans are among the most desirous of all egg colours. In a good example they are a large and dark mahogany colour. The egg colour will get a little lighter throughout the laying year.

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