What color eggs will my chicks lay?

Birdie2019

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I crossed a male that hatched out of a blue egg to a hen that lays blue egg. I wanted to sell these chicks (5 of them) as layers of blue and green eggs.
The male was bred from a hen laying blue eggs crossed to a Cochin Bantam, who would lay white-brown colored eggs (tan).
Is there a possibility of any other egg color, regarding this information?

Pics of one of the chicks (they all look like this):
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Most likely a 25% chance of non blue, non green egg layers.
Okay. Thank you for the reply. I am interested in genetics and such. In Quail, a blue egg means two copies of the gene. In chickens, I assumed that a blue egg was two copies, and a green egg was one copy?
 
In chickens there's a blue egg gene and a non blue egg gene (white egg) blue is dominant to non blue so a blue/blue or blue/non blue will be blue.
The genes that cause the brown color are a different set of genes. Of course those on a white egg make brown and on a blue egg make green.
 
In chickens there's a blue egg gene and a non blue egg gene (white egg) blue is dominant to non blue so a blue/blue or blue/non blue will be blue.
The genes that cause the brown color are a different set of genes. Of course those on a white egg make brown and on a blue egg make green.
Oh, wow. Thank you for explaining !
 

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