Marans

For other uses, see Marans (disambiguation).

Marans
A cuckoo Marans hen
Other names
  • French: Poule de Marans
Country of originFrance
StandardMarans-Club de France (in French)
Traits
Weight
  • Male:
    • Standard: 3.5–4 kg[1]
    • Bantam: 1100 g[1]
  • Female:
    • Standard: 2.5–3 kg[1]
    • Bantam: 900 g[1]
Egg colourdark brown
Comb typesingle
Classification
APAContinental[2]
EEyes[3]
PCGBsoft feather: heavy[4]

The Marans, French: Poule de Marans, is a French breed of dual-purpose chicken, reared both for meat and for its dark brown eggs. It originated in or near the port town of Marans, in the département of Charente-Maritime, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.

The eggs are of an unusual rich brown, varying from mahogany to chocolate; only one other chicken breed, the Penedesenca of Catalonia, lays such a dark egg.[5]: 210 

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