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I've raised a few of them too, and I was quite impressed with how heavy they are while looking small (as compared with fluffy chickens who look bigger but have much less meat.) They really show the value of checking weights and carcass traits, not just looking at the apparent size of the live bird!

Yes, that should work. You can probably save time by breeding from only the pure pea comb chicks in one of those generations. The pea comb gene makes the comb & wattles much smaller when a chicken has two copies of the gene (pure for pea.) The pea-mix birds should have normal sized wattles...

Pea comb is dominant over single comb. It has nothing to do with which gender parent has which comb. When both parents have single combs, all the chicks will also have single combs. (Commercial "cornish cross" have single combs too.) Your Dark Cornish/Bresse chicks will have one gene for pea...

What I see on that chick: white (or pale yellow) along the back light red (or dark yellow) along each side So either a white stripe on a light red chick, or two light red stripes on a white chick. (I agree there is no darker stripe along the middle of the back on that chick.) White Laced Red...

I was only noticing two categories of chicks in that photo: 3 with obvious stripes, that I'm guessing will grow up with something like Dark Cornish coloring. 2 yellow with faint stripes (shades of red/yellow/white). They are the ones reminding me of White Laced Red Cornish chicks. In that...

Dominant White would be the right gene to turn black lacing into white lacing, so that makes sense. I wasn't sure what genes your white birds have (and of course they could have more than one gene for white-- recessive white can hide anything, including Dominant White or Silver or both.)

The lightest two in that photo remind me of White Laced Red Cornish chicks. I'll be watching to see what color yours grow up to be-- all white or red-and-white or something different.

That probably won't hurt anything, but if it's in a brooder with slightly older chicks I would not bother. I'm sure it will see them drinking and eating, and follow their example.

I like to put a few glass marbles in the water-- that makes it colorful and shiny, so the chicks peck it and get their beaks wet. (It also makes changing the water a nuisance, because I have to remove the marbles and not lose them. But after a day or two, the chicks know where the water is, so...

It sounds like a wet chick is just as good as a wet sponge for temporarily raising humidity :lol:

Do you have a specific reason to feed them in the morning? I would expect them to forage more (and get more exercise) if they were given the purchased food in the evening.