Well it isn't impossible to get a pink egg because some of the ancestors of the Aruacana'a (Collana's, Sweet Potato Quetche) sometime lay a pink egg. But it does mean that you have lost the blue gene. The blue is dominant so it only takes one copy for the hen to lay blue. The problem is if you breed her to a roo who also only has one blue gene 25% of the offspring will be double gened for blue eggs (homozygous, OO), 50% will be single gened for blue eggs (heterozygous, Oo), and 25% will not lay a blue egg (homozygous, oo). The "O" and the "o" are the symbol for the blue gene or the lack of blue gene.
The gene that causes the pink color is a different gene and when combined with the blue gene you will get pale green eggs. I am not sure if the pink is just a diluted brown gene or different entirely. I haven't dug that far into the genetics of brown eggs yet. If you would like to read some very fascinating history on the origins of the Aruacana's ancestors check out Yashar's BIN page in the Auction forum. Also of read up on Jungle Fowl here on BYC and how they came across the Pacific to Chile. Scientist are currently tracing human migrations by looking at chicken DNA! The chicken DNA proves Thor Heyerdahl was right that ancient people did cross the Pacific in primitive boats. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl
Now then I just have to add this story. I have been twice in my life to the Cowboy Hall of Fame. Once as a kid and again when I was 19. It is in Oklahoma City by the way and is one of the best museums I have ever been to. If you like American Western art and history put this one on your Bucket List. Both times there was a security guard standing duty there. He was a marvelous story teller as well as being a security guard. There was a painting of two Southwestern Indian women (probably Pueblos), mother and daughter working on weaving a rug. He tells of a man from Iraq who came to see the museum and stops cold in front of the painting, stunned. The guard asks if he is alright. He said yes, it was just that the two women weaving the rug in front of a mud house were dead ringers for his mother and sister and the pattern of the rug is a common pattern in his home country and even the house looked like his her house.
Now what does that have to do with chicken's you ask? There is a rare breed called the Manx Rumpy or more accurately the Persian Rumpless (Iraq/Iran made up old Persia). It dose not lay a blue egg but it has no tail. But I find it thrilling to think that with the other cultural parallels as well as the human phenotype match between these American Indians and this man's mother and sister that possibly they had common ancestors and one group went west from the general Indochina region and the other went East across the Pacific.
Who knows what they will find when they finish charting human migration with chicken genes? If you do go to the Cowboy Hall of Fame I really doubt you will get to meet the guard. He was over 65 the last time I went and it has been at least 30 years. However maybe he passed the story on to his replacement guard. It is an good story.
The gene that causes the pink color is a different gene and when combined with the blue gene you will get pale green eggs. I am not sure if the pink is just a diluted brown gene or different entirely. I haven't dug that far into the genetics of brown eggs yet. If you would like to read some very fascinating history on the origins of the Aruacana's ancestors check out Yashar's BIN page in the Auction forum. Also of read up on Jungle Fowl here on BYC and how they came across the Pacific to Chile. Scientist are currently tracing human migrations by looking at chicken DNA! The chicken DNA proves Thor Heyerdahl was right that ancient people did cross the Pacific in primitive boats. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl
Now then I just have to add this story. I have been twice in my life to the Cowboy Hall of Fame. Once as a kid and again when I was 19. It is in Oklahoma City by the way and is one of the best museums I have ever been to. If you like American Western art and history put this one on your Bucket List. Both times there was a security guard standing duty there. He was a marvelous story teller as well as being a security guard. There was a painting of two Southwestern Indian women (probably Pueblos), mother and daughter working on weaving a rug. He tells of a man from Iraq who came to see the museum and stops cold in front of the painting, stunned. The guard asks if he is alright. He said yes, it was just that the two women weaving the rug in front of a mud house were dead ringers for his mother and sister and the pattern of the rug is a common pattern in his home country and even the house looked like his her house.
Now what does that have to do with chicken's you ask? There is a rare breed called the Manx Rumpy or more accurately the Persian Rumpless (Iraq/Iran made up old Persia). It dose not lay a blue egg but it has no tail. But I find it thrilling to think that with the other cultural parallels as well as the human phenotype match between these American Indians and this man's mother and sister that possibly they had common ancestors and one group went west from the general Indochina region and the other went East across the Pacific.
Who knows what they will find when they finish charting human migration with chicken genes? If you do go to the Cowboy Hall of Fame I really doubt you will get to meet the guard. He was over 65 the last time I went and it has been at least 30 years. However maybe he passed the story on to his replacement guard. It is an good story.
