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Lohman Brown and Hy-Line Brown would be sexlinks. Black Copper Marans are not sexlinks. (And that's what their "Copper Marans" are are, according to this page: https://happyegg.com/happy-birds/) Of course, if they run all the breeds together, then an "oops" rooster of another kind could mate...

That's talking about sexlinks, where the males are a different color. For any non-sexlink breeds of chickens, a few roosters will probably slip through the sexing process. So they must specifically remove those roosters after they grow up enough to be obvious, or else there is some chance of...

I'm guessing first choice is anything labeled "fertile." Second choice would be eggs labeled "cage free" or "free range," because any accidental roosters have access to more hens and thus there's a higher chance of fertile eggs. Fresher eggs would be better than older ones. Cartons with...

You mean this one? Could have a Cuckoo Marans parent. Or a Cream Legbar parent (barring), with the other parent being Black Copper Marans or some other mostly-black breed. That's if the eggs really were Marans and Legbar, but since the photos don't entirely match the text description, and...

Fertile eggs and infertile ones look identical when you candle them. If you incubate them for a week or so, then you can tell them apart because the fertile ones have a noticeable amount of growth. (But by then you may not want to eat the infertile ones.) It's possible to crack the egg open...

Sexing errors happen. If the layers are in cages, an oops male would only have access to the hens in his own cage, so 2 or 3. But in a cage-free system, even a single male could fertilize a lot of eggs. If sexing accuracy is 90%, that would make 10 males in every 100 birds, which is right...