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One thing about posting pictures: If you come back and update after you know for sure, that can help other people learn that a chicken who looks "like this" at this age is really a ______. Either it confirms that red comb does mean male, or it emphasizes that pullets can sometimes have combs...

At 14 weeks, pullets could be starting to get red combs & wattles as they get ready to start laying eggs. Or they could be late bloomers, and wait for several more months to do that. Or anytime in between. It is common for chickens of the same breed to develop at about the same rate as each...

Yes, those chicks will be chocolate mottled. Yes, chicks from that cross will look plain chocolate but carry the gene for mottling. I agree. All chicks will be chocolate. Sons will have white barring and daughters will not. All chicks will carry the gene for mottling.

It is just a coincidence that the sons got rose combs and the daughters got single combs. If you hatch more chicks from that pair, you will probably get some of each sex with the other comb type as well. In chickens and other birds, the mother determines which chick is male or female. Rose...

I don't know what to make of that speckled chest. I would expect a solid black chest on any of the ones I was thinking about (including the Red Jungle Fowl.) There is always the chance he could be an Easter Egger or Olive Egger, since there is no standard appearance for them, but I feel like he...

I don't think the amount of insulation is going to make much difference, since this is only the pop door and not a big area. I would just ignore that detail, and choose the one that makes sense in other ways (predators are probably the biggest issue, with rotting or rusting beng a lesser issue...

I can't see the comb. Is it a single comb? Just going by the color, I think he looks more like the Gold Phoenix: https://valleyhatchery.com/product/gold-duckwing-phoenix-chicks/ But if he actually is Black Breasted Red, assuming he is not a bantam, he could be the Junglefowl, but I think there...

What you expected is what I would also expect. Since the chicks do exist, there are only so many options: --either the father is not actually that rooster --or you are correct about the father, but he has some genes aren't what you expected Photos are always fun to see, and often help with...

The body type of the crossed chicks will probably be similar to what you mention, since Red Sexlinks and Wyandottes have similar body types. The rose comb of the Wyandotte is caused by a dominant gene, so probably rose combs in the chicks. I don't know about gamefowl, so I don't know what...

I was also thinking Olive Egger, for the same reason. I was hoping she was laying olive eggs, which would make it clear what she is, but obviously not :)

Does she lay eggs? If so, what color are they? Egg color can sometimes be a big help in identifying breeds.

Apparently some of their labeling is not as accurate as one might like :lol: Although having the Andalusian in the "assorted layers" bin was probably correct.

Autosomal would not be the right word. Autosomes are all the chromosomes that are not sex chromosomes. In chickens, that is everything except ZW. In humans, everything that is not XY. I assume you are referring to the human Y chromosome. There probably is another word for it, but I don't know...

I agree that she is splash. I think she is probably a Splash Andalusian. Hatcheries usually list them as "Blue Andalusian," but they actually produce chicks in black, blue, and splash. The egg color, leg color, body type, and temperament sound right. Earlobe is supposed to be "white," but any...

I'm going to answer in rougly backwards order, based on which ones have shorter or longer answers. From the first generation mix of lavender and crele, you should get just black chicks. Later generations of the project can give some lavender chicks. Selling them as lavender: probably yes, if...

Depending on how much trouble the broodies are causing, I can think of two rather drastic ways to deal with the situation: 1, have them live permanently in broody-breaker cages (that is basically what happens with commercial layers in battery cages.) 2, rehome or eat the ones that go broody...

True enough. I was mostly trying to make an example of how people can be descended from "one woman" without being descended ONLY from that woman. It happens that I do have a cousin who shares a great-grandmother with me through a line of just women. My understanding is, if you follow the...

Even if everyone is descended from one particular woman, it may not tell much about how many other people were alive at the time. For example: I am descended from my great grandmother. I have a cousin who is descended from the same great grandmother. But we each have 3 other great grandmothers...

Hmm. Probably less than 50% but more than 25% broody in the past two decades, during which time I have mostly had rare or unusual breeds (Dark Cornish, Sumatra, various bantams, etc.) Before that, I mostly had breeds that were known to be good layers, and broodiness almost never happened...

I just changed my answers, but it probably won't help much. I chose everything except the "standard layer feed" options, because I have done everything else at one point or another, and I have had some broodies and some not-broodies in each case.