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I've seen some people recommend "Genetics of Chicken Colors" by Sigrid Van Dort. Apparently it has nice photos, and a discussion of the genetics involved in creating those colors in chickens. I haven't read it myself, because my local library does not have it, and I haven't been willing to spend...

I agree with @Amer: That would mean the babies grow up to look more-or-less like one of the parents. The mother is female, shows gold, is frizzled. The father is male, shows silver, is not frizzled. The chicks could have any combination of those: male/female, gold/silver, frizzled/not.

I was vaguely aware of that forum, because of the recurrent threads on "I have too many eggs. Please suggest recipes!" That is where they tend to be located. But it's not a place I usually spend much time, so I'm glad @U_Stormcrow gave a link. I do find that new thread interesting.

To quote just one part, at least on my desktop computer, I quote the whole thing, then click with the mouse to put my cursor inside the quoted part and delete what I don't want. Then I click outside the quote to be able to type the answer. Yes and no. If the feet turn yellow in time, then yes...

5 looks like a rose comb to me in that photo. For 2, I think single (straight) comb is more likely, but I can't completely rule out pea. It does look too narrow to be rose. :lau

Do the Icelandic and the Spitzhauben both have crests? Because if only one has a crest, and if the chick then grows a crest, that might be one way to check parentage. The chick's comb does appear to be split in two at the back, so I think it probably does have the V comb gene. But I do not...

If the EE has a crest, then any chick that grows a crest could be hers, or could be from the Cream Legbar. None of the chicks is showing a crest yet. When they grow head feathers is when you will be able to tell if they have a crest or not. Splash refers to chicks with two copies of the blue...

Can you post a picture of the EE hen? The chick with white barring is a male. He is the son of the Cream Legbar, unless the EE has white barring, in which case he could be her son instead. Any chick that grows a crest of feathers on its head, must have a parent with a crest of feathers on the...

During the night when the chickens are sleeping inside the coop, having the chicken door open will probably not change whether a predator breaks into the run or not. Some predators are active in the early morning. Chickens in the run might encourage a predator to try to break in. If the...

Chicks will probably have combs that look sort-of like a buttercup comb. I've read that some chicks may look like they have a single comb, even when they do inherit the V-comb gene from one parent. These chicks should get the genes for V comb, pea comb, and rose comb. At a guess, it will...

I agree, that looks like a male comb. Apparently I was wrong about seeing female coloring in the feathers. The breast is definitely showng some black now, but not either single color that would clearly tell the sex of the chick.

I thought all the answers were in this thread somewhere, if you read all the way through it. If not, please say which particular bit you were asking about, because I see several points in the part you quoted. I can answer some of them, and maybe point you toward answers for the bits I don't...

I agree with you that the comb looks suspicious. But I have been fooled by photos of pullets that have bigger combs than I expected, that I mistook for cockerels. I think Lavender Orpingtons have done it more often than other breeds. So I'm not sure either way in this case. For most kinds of...

Yes. With Barred Rocks and a few similar breeds, males have more white than females. As I look at the newest pictures, the male definitely does have a bigger comb than his sister, and his comb is redder, and he also has much more white in his feathers. So that makes a pretty good set of...

The comb is big and red, compared to what I would expect in a female. The sun may make it look more or less red, but is not going to change the size. What breed or mix is that chick? A few specific breeds and mixes can also be sexed by the color of their feathers, and if he happens to be one of...

He is definitely male, with that much red comb at that age. To me, that sounds like the best thing to do in this situation.

That does sound like she was laying a blue or green egg before her winter break. I'll be curious to hear what you find out!

The killing method will probably not matter much. No video, but here's a method that works for me: Kill the chicken. Wait for the body to stop flapping around. Cut off the feet, through the joint where the bare skin meets the feathery area. Pinch up a bit of skin on the belly area, and poke a...

No barring (no light dot on top of the head.) I just wanted to check that, since solid black chicks and white-barred black chicks can look the same from the side when they are that young. It is common for black chickens to have some white in their wing feathers when they are young, then grow...

The seller may have sorted the colors before selling, so you didn't get any splashes and not many bluesblacks. If someone breeds splash to black, all the chicks will be blue. If the adults in the photos all looked blue, then that is probably not what happened with yours, but otherwise it is the...