2nd Generation EEs?

[janiedoe]

Oh boy, this sent me down a rabbit hole of more things that I didn't know!! View attachment 2488628View attachment 2488630
Sooo now I'm looking forward to seeing what comes from my Blue AM + chocolate cuckoo!
I'm wondering now... I knew (eventually ) that I had black sexlinks because of the barring... But did I also have some sort of brown sexing available?! Wait. I guess not, because my rooster was brown/red, not a solid colour. What about with my black or blue AMs? OR my chocolate cross rooster with my black EE or blue AMs... Ah, it's too much for my tired mom brain!

Read about making mauve.
Choc x blue and back to choc. I want a pinkish (mauve) bird but genetics make my brain hurt. Lol

 

[NatJ]

Oh boy, this sent me down a rabbit hole of more things that I didn't know!! ...
Sooo now I'm looking forward to seeing what comes from my Blue AM + chocolate cuckoo!
I'm wondering now... I knew (eventually ) that I had black sexlinks because of the barring... But did I also have some sort of brown sexing available?! Wait. I guess not, because my rooster was brown/red, not a solid colour. What about with my black or blue AMs? OR my chocolate cross rooster with my black EE or blue AMs... Ah, it's too much for my tired mom brain!

You have quite a few genes there! Sounds like fun!

Have you played with the chicken calculator?

http://kippenjungle.nl/breeds/crossbreeds.html
You can just change the boxes and watch the effect on the birds in the picture--no need to make it calculate offspring when you're just learning how the genes work.

If you set the first dropdown box to E/E it will make a black chicken.
That makes it easy to see effects of genes like Barring (B), chocolate (choc), Dominant White (I), Blue (Bl), and lavender (lav).

Some of those genes affect any black on the chicken, and some affect all colors on the chicken. If you leave the first dropdown box at e+/e+, or set it to anything else that is not solid black, you will have a chicken with black and brown in some arrangement. Then you can see which genes affect just the black parts, and which affect the whole chicken. And you can see effects of genes that affect only the gold parts: Dilute (Di), Cream (ig for "inhibitor or gold"), and Silver (S).

Some other genes affect the way the black and gold are distributed on the chicken, but they interact in more complicated ways, so they may not be the best place to start

 

[LinzeeBrie]

You have quite a few genes there! Sounds like fun!

Have you played with the chicken calculator?

http://kippenjungle.nl/breeds/crossbreeds.html
You can just change the boxes and watch the effect on the birds in the picture--no need to make it calculate offspring when you're just learning how the genes work.

If you set the first dropdown box to E/E it will make a black chicken.
That makes it easy to see effects of genes like Barring (B), chocolate (choc), Dominant White (I), Blue (Bl), and lavender (lav).

Some of those genes affect any black on the chicken, and some affect all colors on the chicken. If you leave the first dropdown box at e+/e+, or set it to anything else that is not solid black, you will have a chicken with black and brown in some arrangement. Then you can see which genes affect just the black parts, and which affect the whole chicken. And you can see effects of genes that affect only the gold parts: Dilute (Di), Cream (ig for "inhibitor or gold"), and Silver (S).

Some other genes affect the way the black and gold are distributed on the chicken, but they interact in more complicated ways, so they may not be the best place to start

Oooh boy. Apologies in advance to my family. I shall be doing nothing other than playing with this chicken calculator for the foreseeable future.

 

[LinzeeBrie]

Started to set up my second coop as a breeding pen this morning... Still have to put a roof on the run and cut access door... So I think I'll put my 3 Ameraucana hens in here... And give my Ameraucana roosters visiting privileges every few days?!
And then the main coop will have the the BCMs, the heritage mixes, the EE rooster, and the Ameraucana roosters (for most of the time). So the brown eggs will be my EEs, and the BCM eggs will be my OEs. This will work, right?!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Started to set up my second coop as a breeding pen this morning... Still have to put a roof on the run and cut access door... So I think I'll put my 3 Ameraucana hens in here... And give my Ameraucana roosters visiting privileges every few days?!
And then the main coop will have the the BCMs, the heritage mixes, the EE rooster, and the Ameraucana roosters (for most of the time). So the brown eggs will be my EEs, and the BCM eggs will be my OEs. This will work, right?!
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Not sure but your kid is adorable and your view is gorgeous!

 

[NatJ]

So I think I'll put my 3 Ameraucana hens in here... And give my Ameraucana roosters visiting privileges every few days?!

Yes, that pen should produce pure Ameraucana chicks (after a few weeks' time, to make sure the hens have no more stored sperm from the Easter Egger male.)

And then the main coop will have the the BCMs, the heritage mixes, the EE rooster, and the Ameraucana roosters (for most of the time). So the brown eggs will be my EEs, and the BCM eggs will be my OEs. This will work, right?!

That sounds right to me. Of the chicks who have the EE father, about half will lay some shade of brown eggs (darker or lighter depending on what their mother laid.) The other half of the EE's chicks should lay green eggs, and all chicks from the Ameraucana fathers should also lay green eggs. (Dark green = olive, coming from the Black Copper Marans mothers. Lighter green from the other mothers.)

 

[LinzeeBrie]

Not sure but your kid is adorable and your view is gorgeous!

Thank you! I'm a big fan of both

 

[ShrekDawg]

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Thank you! I'm a big fan of both

Awwww they’re all so cute!! and I am so jealous of your view!! Hahah

 

[LinzeeBrie]

That sounds right to me. Of the chicks who have the EE father, about half will lay some shade of brown eggs (darker or lighter depending on what their mother laid.) The other half of the EE's chicks should lay green eggs, and all chicks from the Ameraucana fathers should also lay green eggs. (Dark green = olive, coming from the Black Copper Marans mothers. Lighter green from the other mothers.)

Thank you! I'm still slightly hesitant about keeping my EE boy in there... I know how much it sucks to wait forever for an EE to lay, only to have it lay brown . But I don't think it would be being dishonest at least... Maybe I'll include one Ameraucana in every bigger EE order

 

[NatJ]

I'm still slightly hesitant about keeping my EE boy in there... I know how much it sucks to wait forever for an EE to lay, only to have it lay brown

You could say that it will be a mix of brown-eggers and green-eggers. That way people might be thinking "what color will this one lay?" instead of "I'm waiting for a blue egg..."

Or you could put the EE male with the Ameraucana hens, so all those chicks will be Easter Eggers. And the Ameraucana males with the other hens, also giving all Easter Eggers & Olive Eggers. (But that would leave you with no pure Ameraucanas.)

I thought about giving him away and everybody raved about how handsome he is

Giving him away could still be an option, too.