Wheaten Marans
A variety of the Marans · Also known as Wheaten Maran
Chicken · Chocolate eggs · Laying
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About the Wheaten Marans
In the Wheaten, hens show the soft pale wheat-fawn body with a darker mahogany hackle typical of the wheaten pattern, while cocks carry the classic golden hackle and saddle over a black breast and tail. Recognised in the French standard and one of only four APA-recognised Marans varieties (with Black, Black Copper and White), it lays the breed's deep-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