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Check the recyle/trash bin/folder - everything is usually there until permanently deleted. Good luck.

Christie - I looked at your pictures of your new coop and I'm so impressed. It's great. I may have to borrow your idea and plans for building a new one around here. I also love the idea of the little brooder box inside the coop where small ones can escape and feel safe. I'm not sure if you...

I agree - thanks Debbi for clearing up any misunderstanding and for your kind note. It was super nice of you and I'd be happy to send you some eggs, free of charge, any time.

Quote: Whoa girl! You came in here angry, and after me for something I brought to the forefront. I've been here for quite awhile now. I don't claim to know much of anything, but I DO know what I've seen and learned from here first hand! I also know what I have learned from others that have...

I have an assortment of dogs. As of this morning #10 (another stray) made her appearance. People seem to love to dump dogs around our farm and they eventually find their way here and I have to medicate; spay/neuter; and train them not to kill any of the free roaming animals that share this...

Mine all have feathers down the outer toe but none of my BCMs leg's or toes resemble some that I've seen in pics which to me look like my Cochin's legs/feet. I've also noticed that they start out with a heavier feathering but tend to lose it as they age - especially the males. Of course most...

Thanks Pink and Debbi - and no Debbi I didn't think you were bashing my birds. I wouldn't have posted the picture if I didn't want comments. It's a project pen, starting with nothing but faults and I'm trying to work them out over time but I'm just getting started. No bird from this pen will...

Thanks ladies. I think it's just a peck mark but I'll defer to your more experienced knowledge and judgement. I thought a sprig was obvious sticks out) and not something that needed magnification or feeling to find. As I posted he is from the Whitmore farm blue copper roo (who is definitely...

Good question - I'm not sure they would pass the egg chart color number test. So far the only other pink egg layer I have is an "Olive Egger" who is being bred to an Olive Egger Roo. That may be where this girl ends up as well. I just need to figure out which girl laid which egg. Or, maybe...

Oh it doesn't bother me. I'm just trying to learn. I thought I knew what a side sprig was and that this roo doesn't have one but I could have been wrong in what I thought it was or about not seeing it on my project blue roo so I thought I'd take a closer look. I personally think he's got a...

Well Debbi - you certainly peaked my interest. I was wondering if maybe I missed something and maybe I still am but being the loon that I am I went out to the coop where I could catch him on the roost and pinned him down and took a close up. I'm afraid I still don't see a side sprig but I do...

Geebs - here's some pictures I just ran out and took of eggs from two of the blue copper pullets who were running around free but are now in an "isolation pen" to "clean out" if you know what I mean. I wasn't sure if they had started laying but thought I'd separate them for at least three weeks...

Thanks Debbi - as I posted, I've always kept a closed flock and always will. Whenever I hatch an order to sell there are always extras and I keep those. So I have extras from every hatch I've ever sold and none have shown a problem in any genetic area so I hope I'm safe to say that my random...

I still don't see any side sprigs - just his "crazy eyebrows". But like I said he's the start on my Blue Copper Marans - definitely not the finished product. Geebs' they are laying very nice dark eggs.

I'm not sure what to say about carnation combs. I've honestly never seen it in my flock. I get five points, six points, seven points on roo combs but never a carnation comb. I've been really out of the loop so this is the first I've heard about it being a problem. Is it just now popping up...

Thanks Debbie - he doesn't have much shank feathering - just a few nubs left. His father, from Whitmore Farms, had no feathering so that's one of the main things I'm working on. I was happy to see his first babies hatch with nice feathered legs. He doesn't have any side sprigs but he does...

I posted earlier I have a "project" pen for the Blue Copper Marans I'm breeding from my original Black Copper line. Here's the roo in the pen today that I hatched earlier this season. I know they need work, hence the name "project" but not too bad for a first generation starting from nothing...

Ahhh - that makes sense. Thanks again Pink. I've just never paid much attention to Splash at all, in any breed. I'm getting some splash orpingtons now and before that I never had splash anything.

He's a nice looking boy too. So I'm guessing there's no one defined "look" for a splash copper. Are any of the Marans clubs working on a SOP for them? As I said, I've really been out of the loop and haven't talked or read about chickens all year.

Thanks Pink that was extremely helpful. I have missed a lot but glad to be back. I'm not sure how long I'm back since it will soon be time to plant gardens and hatch and ship chicks and I'm still training and working with the 16 wild horses so my days will be packed full again when the daily...