Do Easter Eggers lay the same color eggs as their legs

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candychick

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i have four chickens one of which is an easter egger... they have just recently started laying eggs and my easter egger finally laid its first egg!!!!
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it was a green blue egg and later on i remember that when it was a chick i started noticing that its legs were a light green color almost the same color as the egg...i've heard that the eggs are the same color as their ears but the easter eggers eggs are not the same color as its ears...just wondering
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it's not directly related, but green legs usually do mean green eggs. Green legged ones can also lay brown or cream eggs. On the other hand ear lobe color is completely unrelated to egg color

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frosthazard said:
it's not directly related, but green legs usually do mean green eggs. Green legged ones can also lay brown or cream eggs. On the other hand ear lobe color is completely unrelated to egg color

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Actually, it's the other way around. Earlobe color is correlated with egg color, and leg color is not. The general rule is that chickens with white earlobes will lay white eggs and chickens with red earlobes will lay brown egg[FONT=Verdana, Arial]s. This will work about 75-80% of the time. [/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial]Another thing to look for is a pea comb. The gene for pea combs is in close proximity to the blue egg gene on the chromosome, so pea-combed birds are much more likely to lay blue or green eggs than brown ones. [/FONT]
 
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sorry but this is just wrong. blue earlobed silkies lay cream/pink colored eggs. red earlobed easter eggers can lay green, blue, cream/white, or brown eggs. I have had easter eggers with blue earlobes that lay green eggs. I've also had easter eggers with white ear lobes that lay green eggs. My ameraucanas have red earlobes and lay blue eggs. I think you'd be hard pressed to find anything but a coincidental correlation. just my two cents.
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Lol ok...i'm not sure which is the right one but ill just guess that neither the comb color or the legs have anything to do with the color eggs they lay
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does anyone know if there is a way to accually tell?????????
 

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