“Our Blue Splash Maran, Cherie, is the most beautiful bird in our backyard flock. She is a lovely white with gray feathers peppered all over her body. Sadly she is the most skittish bird in the flock and is not friendly to people, but she lays the biggest eggs of them all. Her eggs are a nice "milk chocolate" color - noticeably darker than the Orpington eggs, but not as dark as a Black Copper Marans egg. She gets along well with all the other hens.”
“I cannot say enough good things about this chicken. She‚Äôs one of the friendliest in our flock and a total lap bird. She‚Äôs also incredibly beautiful. I ordered 8 day old chicks in August, 2018 from MPC and my only regret is that I didn‚Äôt do it sooner. I am so pleased with all of them, but our Maran, Olive, is one of my favorites.”
“My first order ever of day old chicks came with 1 of these. Although they do get pasty butt regularly when young (i think it‚Äôs down to the way they swallow huge chunks of food) keep them clean and they grow up to be thee most beautiful sweetest of all your chickens. My little Snow has a crazy appetite, last chicken to still be around the food, largest of the group it‚Äôs almost like she‚Äôs on steroids lol. Very independent and has kind of a childish mentality compared to the other breeds, like a spoilt baby. Absolutely magnificent. Originally had 1 lonely cooper Maran and although she was never hand raised like my new batch, she has this same temperament. l would defo suggest adding this breed to your collection.”
“I have been ordering from MPC for the past five years and have to say these are the sweetest chicks ever! Right now the two chicks are nine weeks old and are the friendliest, gentle and loving chicks yet that I have owned. I have a mixed flock with many breeds, varying from heritage to the standard types and right now, I have 16 chickens and three goslings all from MPC. Again, I can not express on how friendly and beautiful these chicks are and looking forward to their chocolate colored eggs too!”
“They are doing well. I am a little disappointed in the breed they wont make friends with me. From the start they would scream when picked up and still do. Looking forward in eggs.”
“My ducks came healthy and happy, but when I had called for some advice the customer service person had no answers for me nor offered to transfer me to someone who did. I expected more from MPC. My chick order was a disaster with 6 out of 15 deaths within 2 weeks, I chose MPC because they almost guarantee females and I love the selections of bird varieties. But I would not order again due to the stress of travel to the little ones. Nor any heads up that the bantams could be more fragile. Every bantam died.”
“We have 4 blue splash Marans. These are the friendliest members of our mixed breed flock. They are reliable layers of beautiful chocolate colored eggs.I highly recommend this breed. They are also the softest chickens we have.”