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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.

When you got them, they were just a few days old. If that was the first week of April, and this is the first week of June, the current age is about 9 weeks. That one is probably a Sapphire Gem, because I would expect a Sapphire Olive Egger to have a small crest of feathers on the head, behind...

The one with feathered feet is a Partridge Cochin Bantam. The color pattern of that one is Partridge, not Barred. The one with no feathers on the feet is the Barred Old English Game Bantam. At this age, I cannot tell whether either one is male or female.

Have you tried shutting them in the coop for about 3 days in a row? If they are laying, that would force them to lay in the coop. You could try checking their butts to see who is laying. https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/who-is-laying-and-who-is-not-butt-check.73309/ If you have a...

It should be fine for at least a few hours. If you leave dry feed available all the time, you can give them an amount of fermented feed that is "not quite enough," so they eat it up quickly and then eat a bit of dry feed to finish meeting their needs for the day. That way you don't have the...