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Just a reminder--if you set eggs, you're going to have a lot MORE roosters soon! So be prepared for that... :lau

They can breed whenever they think they can. If you're wondering whether the eggs will be fertile, you can crack eggs open and look to see if they're fertile, or you can put eggs in the incubator and candle them a week or so later to see if they're fertile. As long as the eggs are fertile...

If the male has two copies of the colored egg gene, he will pass it to every chick of his, and all his daughters will lay colored eggs. If he has only one copy of that gene, he will pass it to some of his chicks (about half), so some of his daughters will lay colored eggs. If he does not have...

You could integrate the whole lot into your other flock, then later take the males back out. That would get the pullet integrated without being the only new bird at that time. Of course, this would probably mess with the flock dynamics of all the males. (Just throwing the idea out there in...

Yes, beard and muffs could also be hiding wattles. (And genetically, they also make wattles smaller.) I had forgotten about them because I was so busy thinking about the comb :)

News you may not want to hear: any chicken with a pea comb tends to have smaller wattles. So no wattles in the Easter Egger may not tell anything useful about his/her gender. (Female would have no visible wattles, but male could likewise have no visible wattles at this age.)

It will probably become more obvious as they get older. Sometimes it's funny which things are obvious early on, and which things are not obvious. I also just remembered-- some big chickens seem to grow extra-fast when young, and other big chickens grow at a normal rate but for a longer time. I...

I would expect the Australorp to be bigger, and the Andalusian more slender. I can't remember how early earlobe color shows up, but Australorp (bigger bird) is supposed to have red earlobes and Andalusian is supposed to have white earlobes. They are also supposed to lay different colors of eggs...