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Ugh! Not sure where you live, and not sure how these things are viewed, but... When I was a kid in rural WV in the mid-70's any dog caught attacking livestock was shot on sight. It didn't even have to be YOUR livestock. It was viewed as a public service and a civic responsibility to...

I understand that you don't care about the beard. However, if your chick did NOT grow a beard, it would prove that the mom was an easter egger instead of an ameraucana. If your chick DID grow a beard, then it proves nothing because an easter egger often has at least one copy of the beard gene...

Just curious---Did your white chick ever develop puffy cheeks? I have some chicks that didn't seem to have them, but they eventually showed up.

The black one seems to have the puffy cheeks--the beginnings of a beard. It's color and markings (light wingtips, etc) are like a BCM. I think you can be sure that the BCM fathered the black chick. It occurs to me that I was wrong when I said the mom was possibly an olive egger. You said she...

I agree that If the mom was truly an Ameraucana, then the chick would have puffy cheeks. I suppose the beard could develop over time, but the cheeks really should already be puffy. Mom is probably an olive egger rather than an Ameraucana. (This is supposedly a common mistake, so the source...