Easter Egger club!

[serama mamma]

I am drooling over your birds.

I do not care if they are not SQ. I do not exactly know how to tell if they are SQ either.

 

[jerryse]

here is the black and white ee that i was talking about....

Looks like a silver pullet . No lacing involved .

 

[FVRM]

here is the black and white ee that i was talking about....

i love these silver pullets. you can tell the silver ones at hatch. i have one that lays huge eggs, bigger than the leghorns. Gonna try breeding her extensively this year

 

[birdman55]

i was just really interested with the colors because i dont have any that would be from the parent birds....any thoughts on how this color would have come about...?

 

[ochochicas]

I have a couple of blackish pullets with silver lacing. They got the color from their Isbar dad. They are both stunning birds and very good layers of mossy green eggs (just like an Isbar egg). I am convinced that the Isbars are O/O (homozygous for blue eggs) while also carrying brown modifying genes, which consistently produce chicks that lay green eggs but never blue or brown. I can not find any literature on this, but there is no reason to think a chicken could not be homozygous for blue and still produce green eggs because it contains brown modifying genes. There is so much more to egg color genetics that has not been touched on. Fascinating!

Here is a pic of one of the pullets. Their mom was black.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

They where bred to lay green eggs as a breed trait, so yes a good example should be O/O and if bred to the same breed the chicks should have a high % of O/O. There are several breeds worldwide that lay green eggs, many have single comb as well.

 

[jerryse]

i was just really interested with the colors because i dont have any that would be from the parent birds....any thoughts on how this color would have come about...?

The silver had to come from the rooster . You must have a golden rooster (silver/red combo ) . Silver and red/gold are sex linked so a hen is pure for the color but rooster can carry both colors .

Here is a golden rooster .

 

[spree56]

We said goodbye to our EE, Waffles, two nights ago.  She was a sassy lady who laid beautiful blue eggs, and she is missed.  

Sorry for your loss, non chick people just don't understand how we feel when we lose our babies.

 

[jannakaye]

We said goodbye to our EE, Waffles, two nights ago.  She was a sassy lady who laid beautiful blue eggs, and she is missed.  

So sorry

 

[birdman55]

these are the two roosters that are in with them....so i have no idea...which one do you think is the diddy