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You could tell her you were following the advice of Pliny the Elder, who wrote about two thousand years ago. (Natural History, Volume 2, Book 10, Chapter 74 "The various kinds of eggs, and their nature." You can find an English translation here on Project Gutenberg...

It is so frustrating when that happens :( I once had 9 males out of 11 chicks (one more female than you got, but still not very good.)

Hmm. If he sired 5 barred daughters, there's a good chance he is pure for the barring gene, although not an absolute certainty. Females get barring only from their father, so that's why females are a good test in this case. Males can inherit barring from their mother too. If the barred male...

I would expect some variety from each possible pairing (as in, not all chicks from the same parents will look alike.) You might be right. I just don't know one way or the other. That is disappointing :( Do you know who the mothers were, and how many chicks are males vs. females?

Barring is inherited differently than many other genes, because it is on the Z sex chromosome. A rooster has chromosomes ZZ, so he can have barring on both of them, or one of them, or none of them. If he has barring on both Z chromosomes, he will give it to all his chicks. I was guessing from...

Pretty chickens! From the chickens in those photos, I think all possible pairings can produce a black daughter, with only one exception: the beta rooster with a red or gold hen should not produce any black chicks. (Most of the pairings can also produce non-black chicks, or black chicks with...

When you cross chickens that are already mixes, you will often get chicks that look different than each other. Some chicks could look like one parent or the other, or they could look like one or another of the grandparents, or they could look different than any of their relatives. This goes...