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I wasn't worried, so much as looking for some quick eliminations - but you are the second offering anecdotes that there are no clear/apparent links between E and egg color, so at least I know that breeding those birds (if they have other desired traits) isn't leading me to an unproductive...

I was asking for my Lemonade project. One of my eventual desired outcomes is a cream to tan, rather than tan to brown, colored egg - and if the E gene which is so readily identifiable in chicks - was in any way responsible for darker tinting in eggs, I wanted to quickly get it out of the flock...

Not at all. It was Scratch Cradle, which really just links (sadly, one I really wanted was broken) to a number of different sources being shared around the web. Scratch has a whole series of simply written guides. Which are helping me with Kippen - though I still lack enough practical...

I found a "great" source yesterday on egg tinting, and I've seen the charts of course - those are simple, kindergarten level genetics. It was where the site said there were more than a dozen genes affecting egg color that made me stumble in my reading, and then it moved on to the next topic...

I'm embarking on a project (started, actually) to try and cull my way into a backyard mutt with some desired traits. My Roo is of unknown genetics, and some of my starter hens are hybrids, so... I know I'm rolling a lot of dice. All of my eggs currently run shades of cream to brown, and I'm...