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Wow! If this is what meal worms do, I need to start my worm farm pronto! She's gorgeous!

Thanks! They're sweethearts. I love your crele birds. They're beautiful.

In every picture I've seen of orps in England, they're happily grazing in nice manicured pastures. MY orpingtons, however, head straight for the thickest, most overgrown part of the woods to hang out. Maybe I don't have English orps and have East Tennessee Jungle Orps, instead. This is...

Even with scraggly feathers he is still one handsome dude. You have a great eye.

This is what I needed to know. I've only read excerpts from the SOP that pertain to the breeds I'm working with and it never made sense. I thought I was going to have to find a breeder willing to sit down and define the terms for me. Thanks for steering me in the right direction.

Dragonlady, those are beautiful buffs. They changed my mind about wanting some. I really, truly have a splash. It's completely dry and looks almost white. For those of you that got to miss out on my whining, I have been working on getting a splash for TWO years. This is going to be the most...

Today is hatch day and look what I found in the bator this morning. Is that what I think it is?!?!? It's hard to tell in a picture taken through the window, but it looks lavender in real life. Is that what splash looks like?

Oh, I know that I have to breed blue to blue to get splash. I know that, statistically, it should result in 25% splash. Unfortunately, my orps have minds of their own and don't like to follow conventional rules. Contrastphoto and I have hatched dozens of eggs and have loads of blues and a few...

Hmmmm... wonder if you could bottle that and sell it? I'm trying to hatch a splash to add to the mix. It seems that using my blue boy over my black girls is making mostly really, really dark blues. Even when I cross those back to blue, their offspring are still pretty dark and just don't have...

There's not a frizzle on the place. I have some broodies that do a good imitation, but that's as close as it gets. Maybe it's the humidity?

Wow. You can really see how far I have to go in regards to lacing when you compare the two blues side by side like that. It's better than last year, but Renee, you're really going to have to tell me your secret. Are you sure that last one is a pullet? That's an awfully big comb and some really...

This is the only Orp chick I've hatched so far. Her tail is down because I had just picked her up to take her back into the garage and then plunked her down when I remembered that I wanted a picture. She's from blue on blue and her lacing is SO much better than the previous generation. I've...

He prefers ALL of the blue, then. :) Blue is the only color I added to the pen last fall, so they're the younger girls. That might have something to do with it, too. I guess I need to start moving them around. Ninety percent of my girls are black. I can't have a boy in there that doesn't like...

Are blue feathers more fragile than black, Julie? I was looking at my girls tonight and I've had to put saddles on all my blues. The blacks are still perfect. I didn't know if it was a color-thing or the fact that my boy prefers the blue girls.

I lost Astrid this morning. Last night she was not herself and when I check her I discovered that she was impacted and egg bound. There were five feathers stuck together across her vent that wouldn't let the egg pass. I cleaned her up last night and she passed the egg. I was sure she would be...

The weather here in East Tennessee has been crazy the last couple of weeks and I think it's been wreaking havoc with my girls' laying. We've gone from snow to 60 degrees and back. One day I'll get eight eggs, the next day none. I miss summer so, so much.

You're juvies had such potential. I'm very sorry about your loss. I'm so glad that Neville and the girls are OK. Looking at their pictures and hearing about their antics always brighten my day.

I hate to hear that about Jeremy! I feel like I know his birds. Neville, Thelma, and Alice are like family. I hope it's not as bad as we fear...

I took this picture today and thought it was cute... I FINALLY have some blue girls. I know I have some work to do on lacing, but just the thought of splash babies makes me giddy...

Yeah! Hopefully you'll be hatching your first batch at the same time I'm setting my first.