Meet the Flock

Copper was supposed to be a girl, but surprise! He's a boy! He is quite a stud of a roo who started scrapping with our older roosters quite early. He has more heart than your average cockerel and is willing to defend his territory! On the plus side, he is good with people and has never been aggressive at all. 

Sapphire is a lovely Blue Copper Maran pullet and actually has the copper coming in around her neck properly. She is a calmer girl who talks a lot. She likes to stick close to Copper but has started taking to Ziggy and Marley a lot more now that she is getting bigger. She is a very pretty girl!

Marley was one of our first chicks this year and became very friendly, very quickly! She loved to perch on top of the cage and watch what we were doing. Marley is one of the most friendly of our chickens and still doesn't mind too much to be held. She was supposedly a Blue Cuckoo Maran but she has never developed any cuckoo or copper patterns. She is a lovely blueish color with alternating shades of blue color on each feather. She is beautiful! She also is one of the most common to make it back into the house so that she can "clean" the floor. Marley is funny!

Ziggy is a darker, almost charcoal colored version of her sister, Marley. Ziggy is mischevious too! She is always jumping the fence into the Silkie pen so that she can raid their food dishes and snacks. Such a trickster! Ziggy is almost black in color but in the sun, has blueish tones too. She also was supposed to be a Cuckoo pattern which never developed and has also not developed any copper coloring either. Ziggy is very talkative and is constantly learning new noises to make and say to you during feeding time. She loves to follow you around the yard and beg for treats too!

Out of all of my Marans, Onyx is the only one which turned out to be the most-desired Black Copper Maran hen. Although Blue Copper is technically the same bird just with a slightly different genetic coloring, and can yield the exact same egg color, the Black Coppers are much more well known. Onyx loves to follow Copper around but is also usually found with Sapphire. She is a pretty little thing, much smaller than Copper. She is fast and hard to catch! But once caught, she settles down quickly and is happy to be held for a moment or two. 

Cooky is just that - quite crazy! He was supposed to be a pullet and of course, my first actual Cuckoo pattern Maran ended up being a cockerel. Go figure. Cooky is starting to come into himself and has started hopping out of the junior pen into the yard and then back again throughout the day. When Copper catches him, he usually makes him cry, but poor Cooky doesn't get the hint and is constantly escaping the chick pen. Thus, he is crazy. We have not decided yet if we are keeping Cooky given we already have Copper, but he is keeping us entertained for now. 

Frack is the second half of "Frick and Frack" who we purchased as Barred Plymouth Rocks, but Frack is obviously a Cuckoo Maran; quite ironic given that all the others turned out with no Cuckoo pattern! Frack is a calm pullet who easily comes to you and chirps quietly when you pick her up. She is enjoying learning to forage and starting to be in the outside pen during the daytime. Frack is more reserved than the other chicks, but pretty on par with the other Maran pullets we currently have. She does not struggle when you hold her or change her cage and doesn't try to escape you either. She is content, which is nice!

Bluey was a clearance chick that's variety was supposedly sold out at the time, so she was quite the score for me! She was the final part to my Maran flock for now and is a lovely little girl. She is pretty and sweet and again does not mind being handled or held. She is starting to venture out of the teen pen into the yard and is already taking to Ziggy since she is always in the teen/Silkie pen. Bluey is much calmer than her buddy, Cooky, who is her chickmate. Thankfully, Bluey is a pullet and not another crazy cockerel! She grows tired of Cooky's antics though, and prefers to hang out in the pen where she is safe.