They aren’t bad they just tend to focus on quantity over quality, so they don’t really breed their birds toward the SOP (Standard of Perfection) of the breed like breeders do. Breeders are trying to improve the breed. In my opinion most hatcheries are just trying to make money, they don’t care...
Sadie Girl Farm is one of the only few breeders in the US that are selling Celadons that lay 100% blue eggs. And they are NPIP certified. Hope you find what you’re looking for!
The chicks of BCM are very fluffy. The quality of the picture isn’t good enough to distinguish the comb. This definitely looks like a Marans to me. The only thing I see wrong about the chick is feathers on the middle toe, but as I’ve mentioned they do change a lot so they could very well disappear.
Chicks change a lot. If they have orange or yellow legs when they are chicks doesn’t mean they will have orange or yellow legs when they are adults. It also doesn’t mean they aren’t purebred. Actually some of my Marans did have orange legs when they were chicks and now they have slate legs just...