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Yes. Her mother is a Welsummer. I’m curious if the color will deepen as she lays more and how the spots will vary. I have one more that has a Delaware as the mother and the same rooster as a father. I’m interested to see if hers will be green as well.

Update: one of his daughters laid her first egg today!

Okay, thank you for making this so clear. I learned a lot and it looks like I have a lot more to learn. The next thing on my list is to figure out how to use the chicken genetics calculator 🙃

So if I’m understanding correctly, my Silked EE hen, who lays blue eggs, may or may not carry a “not-blue” egg gene, so her offspring with the Silked EE rooster will have some blue and some non-blue layers in the same clutch? In my head I had just assumed the pair would have offspring that...

Does this make the blue gene recessive if they only had one part? So if my rooster only has one part blue and crosses with a white egg-layer that would make half blue-layer chicks and half white, or would that only mean they carry a recessive blue trait?

The description of these chickens online claims that 95% of the hens will lay blue eggs, and assuming that would also mean that 95% of the roosters would also carry it? Both my hen and rooster are second generation of this breeding line and my hen does lay sweet little blue eggs.

Yes, I meant testing the rooster.

Thank you for this insightful response. I had always assumed my rooster carried the blue gene since the hen of the same generation laid little blue eggs. I have some young hens (offspring of rooster) that should start laying soon. I was anticipating green eggs from them since their mothers are...

I have one Silked EE hen and two Silked EE roosters. Given how expensive these chickens are becoming I was wondering if I could hatch my own. I do already hatch beautiful chicks from the hen I have now, but I have friends wanting some as well. My question is can I hatch my own Silked EE by...