Crossing a Wyandotte/Orpington roo with an Olive Eggers, what color eggs?

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Still trying to understand all this egg color and crosses, but, just a simple answer would suffice, if we use our SL Wyandotte/ buff Orpington rooster over our Olive Eggers (grey in color, lay variety of olive color eggs from olive to speckled brown)

Would the offspring pullet lay a form of olive? Right?

Some pictures of our crew and their eggs as of now -- and no, the roo is not old enough yet just curious 🧐 thank you
 

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All of those eggs look brown to me. Since their eggs are already heavily leaning towards brown, the hen chicks would likely lay brown
These are our other browns and pinks and creams, so yes they are more brown, like a mossy green olive. It's hard to photograph some colors : )
 

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if you breed a blue egg laying chicken with a dark chocolate brown egg laying chicken, you will get a first generation olive egger. If you breed that olive egger with another dark laying chicken, you will get a second generation olive egger, and so on and so forth. (With every generation the egg gets a darker olive.) Hope that helps. Your pullets will very likely lay brown.
 

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