Unless you know about his ancestry, just what you infer from his chicks when they lay.* I don't know how dark an egg shell the rooster came out from. Any way of telling if he is from a darker line?
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Unless you know about his ancestry, just what you infer from his chicks when they lay.* I don't know how dark an egg shell the rooster came out from. Any way of telling if he is from a darker line?
Yes, you can probably expect 3 olive eggers (pea combs) and 1 brown layer (single comb), if the EE hens have the linkage of blue egg/pea comb. Since many Easter Eggers do get the pea comb/blue egg linkage from Ameraucana ancestors, that is likely what happened with yours.My EE hens (MOMS) have pea combs. The hens that I have from this off spring
(Gen 2)
2 x black no beard pea comb
1x black beard pea comb
1x black no beard comb
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One of those is laying the olive egg in question
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So if I understand this. I could expect 3 olive layers and 1 brown layer?
Yes, that will definitely be interesting!I do have a spanner in the works. Apart from chickens I have a few ducks. My ducks are currently sitting on eggs.
I have out of the blue ended up with day Olds from somewhere. There is a possibility that these chicks could be gen 3.
Gen 3
4 chicks.
Visible fluffy faces on at least 3. Black and white in coloring. Black legs, yellow toes. These chicks are in doors under heat at the moment. Ducks kicked out chicks.
No hens where sitting
You can get some idea by looking at what color eggs his daughters lay. If they all lay eggs that are darker than their mothers' eggs, then he has the right genes to cause at least that much change.* I don't know how dark an egg shell the rooster came out from. Any way of telling if he is from a darker line?
If you want darker eggs, then breeding them with the BCM rooster will probably produce daughters that lay darker eggs than those current hens.Have 4 salmon faverolle x EE would there be any benefits of having them with the BCM ?
Kinda same thing.Original gangsters. It is a positive thing. Meant to say you know your stuff
You are saying you won't know if the hen has 2 blue egg genes, unless you track which daughters are hers? Correct. (Unless you get a DNA test to check.)Okay. So unless track gen 1 to a particular hen I will never know if the do have a blue/blue gen
With a Black Copper Marans rooster, you should get black feathered chicks only (although they may have some leakage of other colors as they grow up.) The color-sexing of the faverolles is not going to happen when crossed with Black Copper Marans.So... in theory i could use my faverolle x hens with BCM roo
Filler eggs/light brown eggs (breeding stock) to get more bearded hens.
Would you always have black feathered chicks if you use a black copper marans rooster? Or could I get the faverolle sexlinked trait.
Probably yes, but I don't know if it would happen in that generation or if you would have to pick the darkest pullets and breed back to Marans again for another generation or two.Would it be possible to get a chocolate layer by breeding chicks back to BCM.
If the mother is half faverolles, then yes her chicks have a 50/50 chance of having a beard when their father has none.Would, the beard gen have a 50/50 chance in chicks.
If you have single-comb birds with no blue egg gene, no problem, no confusion.Is this a bad idea for pea-comb linked laying tells.