The Maran poultry breed are excellent dual purpose fowl, both for the lovely dark chocolate brown colour eggs and for the meat quality.
These birds are generally quiet and docile, but are still very active.
They adapt to the free ranging environment very well and are known to be tough in the rough terrain and disease-resistant.
They vary in colour from Cuckoo Marans being black and white speckled appereance to the Black Copper, Golden Cuckoo, Silver Cuckoo, Black, Birchen, Wheaton they have quite a few different varieties of Marans.
