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He is looking very good! I don't mind the comb so much...breed him to a hen with a very nice comb and that should be corrected for his sons. His copper is a very nice shade, which I like. I've seen a lot lately that seem to be tending toward straw colored...way too light. I like the width of his...

I think this is one of those attributes that each breeder can decide for themselves, within certain parameters, and is one thing that can make a line unique - you'll know who the breeder is by what the specific attributes are. I personally like a moderate amount of color. My best hen has good...

Seeing all the comments about cheap birds being poor quality upsets me. I charge $8-$10/each for unsexed day olds when I sell them, and I consider my birds to be good quality. No one in my local area would consider paying more for babies, eapecially now that TSC sells "French Black Copper"...

We eat (or sell to someone else who will EAT) all of the rude boys. I've never had a mean HEN before. I honestly know very little about the group she came from, as the breeder was not wonderful at keeping up communication. Or maybe I just asked too many questions for his taste and he got sick of...

I am a member there, as well. Here is her post. I don't see any Black Coppers there, though; only Wheatons. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1787251458165890/permalink/2511449869079375/

This is not the same behavior as food pecking. I do have many chicks that do that. This is a much more aggressive peck, and the body posture of the chicks doing it is very different from those looking for food, both before and after the peck.

You just have to be very gentle and very careful. If you "help" them too early on, it could be a situation like the first time I helped when the baby just wasnt ready to hatch. Also, many people don't help because "the strongest survive" and the chicks that can't hatch on their own are generally...

I usually peel the shell off and use warm water on a paper towel (or 5) to gently wipe off any gunk stuck to them. They are generally stuck because the inner membrane started to dry out and got caught in their feathers as it dried, gluing them in place. It's usually just a small spot somewhere...

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/farm-innovators-pro-series-circulated-air-incubator-with-automatic-egg-turner-1029002 This one is my new one. I can't afford big fancy cabinets. I have 2 extra thermometers and a hydrometer to check the accuracy because I read that their internal ones...

Thanks, everyone. To address some of what a few people said/mentioned... Her sire was an over-colored roo who had good type but an overlarge comb and a little shafting on his front. Her mother is a decent type with only a tiny bit of mossiness on the tips of primaries, and very little...

Hey y'all. Can I get some opinions on this girl? Would you use her for a breeder? I am on the fence because of her mossiness, but of the pullets I grew out from last year, I think she may have the best type. Her eggs are a #5...so not the darkest, either, BUT, Ugh I can't decide if she should go...

Only one black? Then I definitely vote male. Usually my chicks are fairly symmetrically colored, but when they are very asymmetric, they always seem to be boys.

The black on in the first picture is female I think, but the second picture is male (again, I think). The easiest way to tell is y comb at that age and I can't really see either of their combs well. The splash is for sure a boy. The grey one in the middle of the second pic I'm sure is a boy. The...

Thank you! I am bit concerned that he will develop a thumbprint in his comb, as both his father and uncle had one after about 1 year old. I will try to cull according to combs as well, though it's lower on my list of priorities. I wish all my girls laid this dark! I have 2 pullets who lay about...

Hello again! It's been a few months since I have posted, so I thought I'd pop in with an update! Handsome has shown a lot of flaws after his first molt, and I've decided not to use him for breeding at all. Nobandy was unfortunately taken by a predator, but fortunately, I did get from him one...

I think she looks fabulous, and I'm excited to see a pic of a CL hen/Marans roo because this coming spring I will be breeding OE's this way. I have an OE now that is 1/4 Marans from an EE hen and Marans/EE roo...her legs are SUPER green, so I hope she has bright eggs. Won't know for another 3...

Thanks! SnowBIRD is her actual name but I just call her Snow. I just love the color difference in the blues and splash, and the fact that the colors between the birds can vary a bit. I love my Black Coppers, but "chicken tv" is boring when all of the characters look so alike! I don't show my...

Thank you, Kfelton002. I hatched her from shipped eggs I got from a breeder that were all supposed to be BCM or BBS CM, and out of 18 eggs I hatched 1 pullet who appears to be a Penedesenca (in the background of the pullet I showed), 1 Splash cockerel and 3 Blue Cockerels. I culled all of the...

Is there a way (other than test breeding) to determine what colors a splash will lend to the next generation as far as mossiness/leakage/over coloring? This girl is the one and only bird I kept from a hatch of Copper Blue and Splash Marans, In the hopes that I can use her to start adding some...

I have a very hard time candling the dark eggs, as well as the blue eggs I get from my EE. I can see development in all but the darkest eggs, but not the veins. It's just the coloration of the eggs that makes it difficult.