pinewoodacres
Songster
I have F1 Welsummer x Cream Legbar olive eggers and my goal is olive eggers that breed true (among other things).
I know I need to cross to a Legbar again to pick up the other blue egg gene, but my understanding is that will more or less dilute the brown egg coloring...if the charts going around are accurate and I'll get more like a mint green out of it.
If I cross to a Welsummer again (it would actually be F1 x Welsummer), will that actually do anything for the brown color if I will have to still cross again to a Legbar after that? It will set me back probably a year as far as the other attributes I'm going for, so I only want to do it if the offspring will retain more or darker brown genes.
Thanks for any insight!
I know I need to cross to a Legbar again to pick up the other blue egg gene, but my understanding is that will more or less dilute the brown egg coloring...if the charts going around are accurate and I'll get more like a mint green out of it.
If I cross to a Welsummer again (it would actually be F1 x Welsummer), will that actually do anything for the brown color if I will have to still cross again to a Legbar after that? It will set me back probably a year as far as the other attributes I'm going for, so I only want to do it if the offspring will retain more or darker brown genes.
Thanks for any insight!