*VERY LIMITED* These rare girls from Spain are a must have if you like the very dark copper egg color. The egg color is sometimes called a dark terracotta. It can be as dark as the copper marans, but it has a distinctive "matte" finish and more of a 'red' color.   You can use this breed to make Olive Eggers. Penedesencas lay some of the darkest brown eggs you will see. The "partridge" color of Penedesenca (PENNE-DE-SAN-KUH) hens have dark, double-penciled feathers. The hens are very heat tolerant and are good layers of medium to large-sized very dark terracotta "red" eggs, and lay right through the heat of summer.  These girls are NOT broody, and are very active.  Like most Mediterranean breeds, they do wonderfully in heat. In Colorado winters they do fine with a solid coop.  Mine have done very well with no heat in my solid coop with NO heat at 6700 ft.  They are very good producers and will produce more eggs than a maran in the summer.  Expect 4-6 very dark terracotta eggs/week.  While these girls are beautiful and produce show-stopping egg color, do not expect this breed to be a lap chicken.  They are more on the independent side, and may not like to be handled, they do very well on free-range.