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Is it possible to sex isabella leghorns with chick colour/markings?

If I wanted to get wheaten into a breed, what would be the best colour to cross with? Would wheaten hens or cocks work best? Generally, what is the most efficient way to do this?

I am a fan of cuckoo. I want to know all the possible combinations of cuckoo that exist, or might be possible. The ones I know of: Black cuckoo Red cuckoo Isabella cuckoo Lavender/Self Blue cuckoo Chocolate cuckoo Silver Columbian cuckoo Candy Corn (gold laced x black cuckoo) I know it doesn't...

I have some chickens I'd like to breed toward their SoP. Nearly all stock I have seen have comb issues. On males and females. Namely way to large or to many points. I have the latter issue with mine. I need to breed for less points. Is it really as simple as selecting the offspring with the...

I picked up two Polish yesterday and the woman I got them from said, "They have trouble keeping weight on them." And to feed them some game bird feed. I want to know of this is true of Polish. I am very suspicious of it and I immediatley suspected worms. Truth be told, she didn't seem like...

Looking for a Silkie hen, a Polish hen, and a Bantam spalsh Cochin of either sex (bred to SoP preferred), in North Carolina, to be picked up close to Christmas. Must be old enough to be outside by Christmas.

Do any chickens other than Delawares come in the silver barred colombian colour?

Do you think this chick will be okay? The egg just moved a minute ago, so I know the chick is currently alive. If an intervention is needed, how long do I wait? Normally I would let nature do it's thing, but this is one of 8 eggs in particular that I really want to make it.

I don't know where else to post this, so I general sounds good. I am having eggs shipped to me for the first time and I want the post office to hold the box for pickup. How is that done? I have seen a picture, The box just said "Hold for pickup" on it. As I understand you need to write a phone...

I got this chick from someone locally. Bantam Cochin. She had a trio; a partridge roo, a buff hen and a mille fluer hen. This chick has to be out of the mille fluer, right? What colour will this chick be? I was told the hatch date was April 22. This is my first time having bantams, or cochins...

A question for those of you that know a lot about chicken colour genetics. what would you get if you crossed a Buckeye rooster with a silver laced Wyandotte hen and vice versa? Also, what about comb inheritence?