Oh, and she is definitely a BCM, although you can't see her copper in these photos. She only has a tiny bit on the back of her neck. She lays this dark egg in the back:
So, this got me thinking. I have two BCM chicks right now, and their eyes are black. I also have a BCM hen whose eyes are bright orange. So I wondered, do they start black and then change?
They do! The following pictures are of the same bird at different stages of development. Between black and...