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My hen is an olive egger and my roo is a bantam silkie. I have two chicks from their cross. If the chicks grow up to be egg layers, just wondering what to expect as far as egg color.
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Both parents contribute to the genes that the offspring will have concerning egg color. Since the mother is an olive egg layer, she most likely has one blue egg gene and multiple brown egg genes to contribute. The odds of the offspring getting a blue egg gene from her should be 50%. Silkies are said to lay cream colored eggs. My guess is that the most likely expected egg color from the offspring is some shade of brown. There is the 50% possibility of some shade of green also.My hen is an olive egger and my roo is a bantam silkie. I have two chicks from their cross. If the chicks grow up to be egg layers, just wondering what to expect as far as egg color.
Thanks!
I know this thread was from May, but I am curious if your chicks, assuming they were any pullets, ended up laying colored eggs. I am playing with this idea as well! Thankshey that's great! Thank you
There was a thread a couple of years ago that proved the brown coating does penetrate the whole shell. Unfortunately the poster providing the good links was very rude about it and those links got deleted.There are only white and blue shells.
Brown eggs have brown coating on white shells.
Green eggs have brown coating on blue shells.
The brown coating can be very light or very dark, and can vary day to day.
Only 2 genes determine shell color, a dozen or more control coating color.
I think I remember that....still a coating, not a shell color.There was a thread a couple of years ago that proved the brown coating does penetrate the whole shell