Stumpfarmer,
there is a breeds tab on this site. It has a chart showing egg color. So if you want white egg layers, large fowl, dual purpose birds, you can put that into the breed calculator and it will spit out those options. Then you can read up on those particular chickens to see which temperaments you like best and go from there.
Royce (Tailfeathers here on BYC) has nice chickens and he is right there in Washington.
If your daughter is into cooking shows, she might like selling a RAINBOW BASKET of eggs instead of white eggers. In which case you could run lt brown, dark brown, white, blue and green egg layers for egg sales and raise heavy meat birds for the capons. After all chickens are for eating. I like the Large Egg birds with medium to heavy production for the eggers.
Making chickens sweet and friendly is easy enough if you handle them a LOT from hatching ON for at least the first 6 weeks. Mine are 10 weeks old now and I can still grab them, hold them, pet them, and gently set them back down on their feet. They like their necks and chins rubbed and even the rooster will let me pet him as he goes by with only ducking and not squawking and running away. It is good and easier for handling to have friendly birds.
Take your flock and CULL to APA standard. This is easier to do if you are just running one breed of bird. Working with chickens is a fun hobby. No reason to just have lots of hatchery chicks when sustainable backyard farming is doable and you are adding to the neighbors food supply!
Maybe you should look up OPA here on BYC and see how he does SMOKED CHICKEN to add to your farm sales.
There is also a SEARCH tab up on the left side of the screen. I usually put in my search term, drop down and pick a FORUM to search, then drop down and put POST instead of Topic which is the default. I can get around BYC pretty good with that and find what I am looking for. So you can go look up your sexlink chart.
I have found the breeders here very helpful with getting me started on the birds I am interested in. It takes a little work to introduce yourself and express your interest in a given breed and look for them locally, then closest states. There are meet ups, trades, shows going on as well to source birds at.
Good luck on your chicken venture. Wyandottes are dual purpose birds. Also, some birds are better for capons and FLAVOR than other breeds so you might want to look that up as well. The hatchery meat birds have weak legs and fast growth and HAVE to be butchered by a certain age because they can't walk.....From a farm management point, you may want egg layers and meat birds as both have been bred to be effiecient at their job for food utilization. But from a sustainable point a dual purpose flock can yield both and forage for better quality eggs and meat and less feed bill.
Sounds like you need a bird that also likes it in wet conditions.....
