For the 2024 season, we have BIG CHANGES to announce with the goal of being a better, yet more economical choice for our customers.  We have always worked hard to provide some of the best quality Marans chicks and dark eggs to be found in the United States. We have reduced our flock size to the "Cream of the Crop", both in egg color and in SOP characteristics.  We will provide our customers with some of the best Black Copper Marans & darkest eggs we have ever produced.  That's not to say that every chick that hatches will be perfect or that every egg will be an 8 or 9.  Some of your grow-outs will be culls, just like ours are, but we expect you to have a higher percentage of 'keepers' than in previous years.  As for egg darkness, ALL of our hens are from our darkest eggs.  Any eggs that are lighter in color were laid by hens that are between one and two years old.  We rarely keep hens older than two years of age.

As of a few weeks ago, we were still in our 'old' mode of taking customer deposits and orders.  WE ARE CHANGING ALL OF THAT, but will honor all 2024 Early Bird deposits that have been made so far. 

Over the years, Thornfield Heritage Farm, aka Thornfield Poultry, has worked hard to keep our prices lower than our competitors to give more folks access to quality Marans laying beautiful chocolate eggs.  The economy has really been a challenge over the last couple of years, not just to us, but to everyone, our customers included.  We planned to have quite a large increase in our prices starting in 2024, BUT . . . after MUCH consideration, we are actually going THE OTHER WAY!!  We will be LOWERING our prices--not drastically, but enough hopefully to continue our original business objective, that of leveling the economics playing field so more folks can afford to enjoy these beautiful birds and deliciously dark chocolate eggs.

Cheers,
Carter Perry
Thornfield Heritage Farm