juci
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- Feb 9, 2023
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Hi everyone! I don’t have much experience breeding chickens yet, I’m just getting started. But I was wondering about the genetics of Easter eggers. Im hoping to get into breeding salmon faverolles as soon as I can get some chicks I like. I have 3 whittings true blue female chicks that I’m planning to eventually put into the pen with the salmon faverolles so I can make Easter eggers. Where I live there’s a market for EE chicks as well as olive eggers.
So am I right in thinking that the eggs I hatch from the Whittings hens x faverolle rooster will be Easter eggers? Meaning they could lay shades of blue, green, and tan? Or would these offspring always lay eggs that are some shade of green?
From what I understand olive eggers require a dark brown egg layer and a homozygous blue egg gene, to produce female offspring that would be guaranteed to lay a green egg.
Will dark brown egger x blue egger give different results than light tan (like salmon faverolle) egger x blue egger?
Also I feel like I frequently hear about Easter eggers from hatcheries being faverolle based, or having faverolle in their background. If that’s true is there some reason why faverolles are often used to create Easter eggers, when there are other breeds that lay a light brown egg?
Thank you in advance for any help!
So am I right in thinking that the eggs I hatch from the Whittings hens x faverolle rooster will be Easter eggers? Meaning they could lay shades of blue, green, and tan? Or would these offspring always lay eggs that are some shade of green?
From what I understand olive eggers require a dark brown egg layer and a homozygous blue egg gene, to produce female offspring that would be guaranteed to lay a green egg.
Will dark brown egger x blue egger give different results than light tan (like salmon faverolle) egger x blue egger?
Also I feel like I frequently hear about Easter eggers from hatcheries being faverolle based, or having faverolle in their background. If that’s true is there some reason why faverolles are often used to create Easter eggers, when there are other breeds that lay a light brown egg?
Thank you in advance for any help!