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I wanted Ameraucana and Black Copper Marans when I first started with chickens. Faced an early disappointment of those breeds being widely misrepresented, and hard and expensive to find real and good ones. So I had to wait a few years and finally found some local BCM eggs(not great lines) and...

I had to change my goals.

Don't buy from disreputable breeders ;)

Best bet would be, don't hatch pullet eggs :D

Would be hard to actually quantify this, wonder if what you read came from a study or is just anecdotal supposition. Has someone actually hatched a bunch of pullet and hen eggs from the same parentage then tracked them living in the exact same environment thru their whole lives to see...