Birchen Marans
A variety of the Marans · Also known as Birchen Maran, Silver Black Marans
Chicken · Chocolate eggs · Laying
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About the Birchen Marans
The Birchen (silver-black) is the silver counterpart of the copper/brown-red pattern: a black bird whose head, hackle and lancets carry sharply contrasting silver-white, with fine lacing running into the breast in both sexes. Recognised in the French standard as Noir-Argenté, it is a scarce colour and lays the breed's dark brown egg.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Chocolate
- Eggs per year
- About 200
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Low
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Origin
- France
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus