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With those dark feet, probably not a Partridge Rock. I will guess Egyptian Fayoumi: https://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/egyptian_fayoumis.html Even though the adults are supposed to be just silver and black, the chicks can be quite brightly colored (more obvious in the video than in the...

No first-hand experience, but from what I have read, the barring gene should behave the same in any breed. Barring obviously looks a little different depending on what color the rest of the chicken is (Legbar vs. Barred Rock vs. Delaware) But the same basic idea should work for all the crosses...

With a Blue Copper Marans father, I would expect the following egg colors: --hatched from white egg, lays brown eggs, somewhere between cream and medium brown --hatched from brown egg, lays brown eggs, somewhere between medium brown and dark brown --hatched from blue egg, chance of laying...

I would try keeping them in the run all day long for about 2 days, and see if you get more eggs. If a hen is determined to get to a particular nest, she can delay egg-laying for a few hours. So if they have hidden nests, they might be managing to hold the eggs until you let them out. If you...

The white "tips" on the feathers can be various sizes, and seem to get larger each time the bird molts (but not at the same rate for all chickens, so some birds will look almost completely white at a certain age, while some others will have tidy little white dots at the same age.) Yes and yes.

If the cuckoo is the mother, then yes you get sexlinks (barred males). The blue gene works just as you said: blue x black = blue chicks and black chicks. The blue affects the areas that would be black, so the white barring doesn't change. Cuckoos have the barring gene. That is on the Z sex...

The biggest difference I can find: Sapphire Gems are supposed to lay brown eggs, Sapphire Skys are supposed to lay olive eggs (with a few laying brown anyway, but that's not the color they are really trying for.)

Grace (Light Brahma) and Ruth (Silver Laced Wyandotte) look like they are the right breed. I have trouble with many of the blue breeds and hybrids, so I'm not really sure about Idgie and Agnes. I think Agnes might be developing a small crest on the head, but it's hard to be sure at this age...

I just looked up Brahma history in wikipedia, and apparently they were named "Brahmapootra" at one time (for a river, presumably in turn named for the Hindu god), but later got shortened to plain "Brahma." So Brahma sort-of works out to being another of those breeds named for a place (but not...

I'm used to working in feet, so 13 x 13 = 169 square feet. At 4 square feet per chicken, that is enough for 42 chickens. The guideline of 4 square feet per chicken is based on more than just sleeping, because it usually works when they are shut in for a while in the morning (until someone opens...

Oh, that's much easier. Someone just needs to get them imported, which is probably still cheaper than feeding & housing birds for a big long breeding project. Maybe they could talk to Greenfire Farms, which has made quite a business of importing breeds from around the world and then selling...

The word Brahma does exist apart from being a chicken breed. Unfortunately, I can never remember what it means, just that it HAS a meaning of some sort, and the chicken was presumably named after it.

"Brahma" is the correct spelling for the breed you are thinking of. You had an extra "a" in the middle.

I don't like to see wrong information about what is safe vs. dangerous for chickens to eat, but I've got no problem with people choosing to avoid things that they just don't want to eat (or let their chickens eat.) As a picky eater myself, I figure as long as everyone ends up healthy and happy...

Lots of surprising things about chickens! Another one: the hen determines which chicks are male or female. The rooster does not. (Roosters have sex chromosomes ZZ, hens have ZW. That is apparently normal for birds, but of course it is backwards of what we are used to with mammals.)

Typically yes. The only physical issue would be if she got squished by the heavy rooster as he stood on top of her. He doesn't have a male organ that would need to go inside her, so no worries about that aspect of size (drakes and ganders do, roosters do not.)

Yes, I would expect that to work. Also if you think your hens are too fat, they will probably lose some of that while broody. It is possible for a hen to stay broody for too long and die of starvation, but most hens seem to stop before that happens.

4 weeks? That definitely looks male to me!

I'm still practicing :)

Yes. Sometimes you get fertile eggs from that pairing, and sometimes not (apparently different sizes make things difficult, and some roosters are more creative than others at finding a way to make it work.)