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Um, that's a good point. 🤔 They "shouldn't" have barring, but some of them clearly DO have lines of white across the wings. Some colors of chickens have markings like that when little, but a different pattern when they grow up (I've seen it in some laced and double-laced chickens, for example...

No. If it was the other way around, a Dad with dark feet and a Mum with light feet, you might be able to sex the chicks by foot color. But not when the Dad has light feet.

I would say it's likely, but not certain, that he has two genes for crest. Pretty chickens! Certainly no silver or barring gene in those hens, so no sexlinked chicks. Chicks will almost certainly have some pattern of brown and black in their feathers, and they might or might not look like the...

That depends on the dad's genetics. If he has two genes for crest, then every chick gets one, and every chick should grow a crest (might be larger or smaller crests, but some amount of crest.) But if the dad has only one gene for crest, then he would also have one gene for not-crest. And he...