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I have no argument with that :) If that "covered run" has a roof and all the sides are covered (except for ventilation), I don't see how it's any different than a "coop." Either one is covered, has the walls mostly covered, and is supposed to have enough ventilation. I don't know about what...

In that case, your chickens probably can go outside every day, and don't need such a big coop as they would in some other climates :)

I agree that chickens do not need to eat during the night. But is the rest of your statement meant to apply specifically to OP, or to all chicken keepers? (I don't remember where OP lives.) If you mean it to apply to all chicken keepers, I say it is wrong for many of them. I live in the USA...

In that case, there's not much point in putting them in, since they are free to come out again. Either put them in and shut it every night until they learn, or just accept that they will sleep wherever they want. I thought you were trying to get them to sleep inside for safety (secure coop...

Huh? If it's after dark, put them in one at a time: grab a chick, open the door a little ways and put it in, shut the door, go grab another chick. They don't have a chance to run back out that way. It sometimes works in daylight too, but they are more likely to run back out in daylight than...

Then pick them up, and gently sit them in the dark coop. It still gets them used to sleeping inside.

If they can be feather-sexed at 1 day old, they can be feather-sexed more easily at 4 weeks. All of yours are fast-feathering. Any slow-feathering chicks would look half-naked at this age (slight exaggeration, but not much.) When feathering speed is used for sexlinks, females get the fast...

I would probably call your silkie rooster "Black Tailed White," even if that is not an official Silkie color. Japanese Bantams do have a variety called Black Tailed White, and it certainly seems like the obvious term for a white chicken with a black tail.

Those are definitely single combs. I think you have gold sexlinks. (Also called red sexlinks, Gold Comets, ISA Browns, Red Stars, and a variety of other names.) They grow up to have feathers that are mostly red or gold, with white in the tail and a few other places; and they are good layers of...

Nope. If the whole bin had single combs, they are not Wyandottes. Wyandottes can produce occasional chicks with single combs, but they should not produce single combs on all the chicks. And no, single combs do not grow into rose combs. A rose comb is much wider and flatter than a single comb...

I would not have expected Blue Laced Red Wyandotte chicks to look like that, so I will be watching to see how they develop as they grow. Maybe they are Splash Laced rather than actual Blue Laced? That would account for how light their color is.