Before anyone jumps in I'm pretty sure he knows about the default of his male being beardless. His female is helping with that as all the offspring are beared. They just need to be bread together to get the full gene match of Mb/Mb back.
Sorry for the bad year. I'm having one my self. Two pens are out of commission until I redo the wiring as I had coon break ins and lost chickens.
That set me back 4 to 6 chickens and my project with the Spitzhauben x Ameraucana is on hold because that pen now has the chickens from another pen...
I'm using these. They seam to work good. I just make sure the tem matches the thermostat of the ac and humidity matches the boreomter I have in the house...