Buy fertile Blue Copper Marans hatching eggs

Buy fertile Blue Copper Marans hatching eggs

At Game Fowls Ranch, our Blue Copper Marans breeding pens are selectively line-bred to uphold French standard guidelines—focusing on lightly feathered shanks, robust body structure, vibrant copper plumage accents, and dark, glossy chocolate egg shells (ranking 4 to 7+ on the Marans color scale). Blue Copper Marans carry the blue dilution gene ($Bl/bl$), meaning offspring from a Blue Copper x Blue Copper mating will naturally express Blue Copper (~50%), Black Copper (~25%), and Splash Copper (~25%) color varieties—adding exciting diversity to your hatch!

Every hatching egg is hand-selected and inspected prior to packing:

• Freshness Guaranteed: Collected daily from clean nesting boxes and stored in temperature-controlled rooms ($55^\circ\text{F}$–$60^\circ\text{F}$) to preserve embryo viability.

• Shell Quality & Size: Only clean, strong-shelled, correctly shape-graded eggs with optimal air cells are selected for shipping.

• Specialized Packaging: Eggs are carefully secured in custom-cut, high-density foam shippers or double-boxed egg cartons wrapped in shock-absorbing bubble padding to withstand transit handling.

Product Highlights & Specifications:

• Breed: Purebred Blue Copper Marans (French Standard)

• Item: Fresh Fertile Hatching Eggs (Unincubated)

• Incubation Period: Standard 21 days

• Adult Potential: Medium-heavy dual-purpose frame (hens reach 6.5 lbs, roosters 8.0 lbs). Features beautiful slate-blue body plumage accented by fiery copper neck hackles and saddle feathers, red single combs, and lightly feathered shanks.

• Egg Laying Capability: Reliable heritage layers producing 180 to 220 dark chocolate-brown eggs per year.

• Incubation Quick-Facts: Standard forced-air incubation requires a temperature of $99.5^\circ\text{F}$ ($37.5^\circ\text{C}$), a relative humidity of 45%–50% during incubation days 1–18, and a humidity increase to 65%–70% during the final “lockdown” phase (days 19–21). Eggs should be turned 3 to 5 times daily until lockdown.