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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...

Putting leg bands on the hens is a one-time thing--just catch them sometime and put the bands on (grabbing them off the roosts at night is one option, trapping them in the coop for easy catching is another option, but no need to wait for them to be on the nests at the time.) Trap nests have a...

Sometimes you can tell which egg came from a certain hen because she lays longer ones, or rounder ones, or speckled ones, or ones of a different color. But if they're all the same breed, they're likely to be pretty similar. I assume you've got leg bands or some way to identify each hen? I...

Then the crossed daughters should be fine for your test-breeding project.

Do you know which of their parents was which breed? The id+ gene is sex-linked, so a hen inherits it only from her father.

I thought this would rule out the black/blue/splash Ameraucanas. But if nicalandia says they will work, then I strongly suggest using them. What you have is always a great place to start, and nicalandia appears to know much more than I do about this :) Sorry if I caused any confusion along the way.

I don't personally know that much about the Fibro genes, so I'm going by what nicalandia said--you want slate or willow shanks, and feather color not extended black (so probably not blue, splash, lavender, barred, or mottled, because those are often based on extended black.) I'm trying to think...

It's common to allow three weeks after removing one rooster, before starting to collect eggs from the next rooster. If you just remove the rooster, you will typically get fertile eggs for the next week. The second and third week you might get a few fertile eggs--not enough for a good hatch...