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French Black Copper Maran Fertile Eggs – Rich Chocolate Layers
Original price was: R80,00.R40,00Current price is: R40,00.
Premium French Black Copper Maran fertile eggs with rich dark chocolate shells 🍫 Perfect for incubation and hatching your own chicks 🐣 From healthy, prime laying birds with limited daily availability.
5 in stock (can be backordered)
Description
French Black Copper Maran Fertile Eggs – Rich Chocolate Layers
🌿 Premium Dark Chocolate Eggs from a Highly Sought-After Breed 🍫🐣
🐣 Breed Overview
- The Maran originates from France 🇫🇷 and is known worldwide for its deep, chocolate-coloured eggs
- Hardy, adaptable, and ideal for backyard or small farm environments
- A premium breed for both egg production and visual appeal
🎨 Egg Colour
- Rich Dark Chocolate Brown 🥚
- Often compared to espresso or cocoa tones ☕🍫
- No matter the shell colour, all chicken eggs taste essentially the same – flavour depends on freshness and diet, not shell colour 👍
🧬 Appearance & Colour Characteristics
- Black plumage with striking copper/golden neck feathers ✨
- Strong, well-built birds 💪
- Feathered legs in most French lines
😊 Temperament
- Calm and easy-going 😌
- Suitable for backyard setups
- Integrates well with mixed flocks
🥚 Egg Production
- Approximately 180–220 eggs per year
- Approximately 15–18 eggs per month
- Consistent layers under proper care conditions
🌿 Why They’re Perfect Backyard Chickens
- Unique premium egg colour
- Hardy and adaptable in various conditions
- Balanced productivity and appearance
- Excellent for backyard and small-scale farming
💡 Fun Facts
- Known as the “chocolate egg chicken” 🍫
- Egg colour intensity is graded – darker eggs are highly valued
- Popular among chefs and specialty egg markets
⭐ Why You’ll Love Them
- Stand out with rare dark eggs 💎
- Calm and easy-to-manage chickens 🐔
- Great for home use or resale 🥚
📦 What You’re Getting
- Fresh, fertile Maran eggs
- Selected from healthy breeding stock
- From birds in peak laying condition (approximately 8 months old) 💪
📊 Stock Availability
- Limited stock available ⚠️
- Current production: approximately 2–5 eggs per day
- Orders supplied on a first-come, first-served basis
🔥 Hatching & Incubation Guide
- Main purpose: These eggs are sold for incubation to hatch your own chicks 🐣
- For best results, place eggs in an incubator within 7 days of laying
- Ideal incubator settings:
- Temperature: 37.5°C
- Humidity: 45–55% (Days 1–18)
- Humidity: 65–70% (Final 3 days / lockdown)
- Turn eggs at least 3–5 times daily (or use an automatic turner)
- Stop turning eggs on Day 18 (lockdown period)
- Expected hatch time: 21 days ⏳
- Candling (checking development) recommended on Day 7 and Day 14 🔦
- Always wash hands before handling eggs to maintain cleanliness
- Store eggs point-down in a cool room (not refrigerated) before incubation
- Allow eggs to settle for a few hours after transport before placing in incubator
- Important: Hatch rates can vary due to handling, storage, and incubation conditions
🌿 Breeding, Housing & Nutrition
- Our breeding stock is raised in the beautiful Garden Route environment 🌿, with spacious, clean, and well-designed coops that prioritise health, comfort, and biosecurity
- Due to the high predator pressure in the area, our premium breeding birds are safely housed and not free-ranged 🛡️, ensuring protection, controlled feeding, and consistent breeding quality
- Birds are fed a carefully balanced, high-quality base feed, enhanced with added canola and sunflower oil to support energy levels, feather condition, and overall vitality
- The diet is further supported with regular fresh greens 🥬 to promote natural nutrition and digestive health
- We include protein-rich fly larvae 🐛 as a natural source of amino acids, supporting growth, fertility, and strong chick development
- Additional supplementation includes Camelus Avi Layer & Breeder, a premium poultry supplement designed to support fertility, hatchability, egg quality, shell strength, and reproductive performance ✅
- This advanced nutrition program delivers essential vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and electrolytes to maintain optimal breeding condition and egg quality
- Our focus is on quality over quantity, ensuring strong, healthy birds and fertile eggs with excellent hatch potential
❤️ Our Philosophy
- At Garden Route Trail Hatch House, our chickens are more than just livestock – they are part of our family 🐔
- We believe in raising birds with care, respect, and attention to their wellbeing at all times
- We do not support intensive or caged breeding systems where birds are treated purely for production
- Rather than operating as a high-output breeding farm, we have created a safe, well-managed haven where these beautiful and extraordinary breeds can thrive under proper care and protection
- Our goal is to maintain healthy, stress-free breeding stock that produce strong, viable offspring
- We believe that how birds are treated directly reflects in the quality of the eggs and chicks we produce ✅
🧬 Breeder Line & Origin
- Our breeding stock has been carefully sourced from reputable breeders across South Africa 🇿🇦
- This includes well-regarded lines from Mother Cluckeries and Lincer Poultry, known for producing quality birds with strong genetics ✅
- We continuously select and refine our breeding stock to maintain consistent egg colour, strong fertility, and healthy offspring
- Customers are welcome to explore these breeder lines on platforms such as Facebook to learn more about the origin and quality behind our birds
- This commitment to proven breeder lines ensures reliability, performance, and long-term value in every fertile egg we offer 🐣
