blue eggs from male or female EE genes?

[becstalls]

Hi all! I'm extremely new to all this, and I'm sure this has been asked before, I just can't come up with the correct search criteria. When crossing an EE to another breed, will a (female EE x male something else) or a (female something else x male EE) produce offspring that lay blue eggs? For some reason I've gotten the impression that it's the female something else x male EE that will do it. Thanks guys!!

 

[sonew123]

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If the male was hatched from a colored egg then it is highly likely he will pass that gene on

 

[becstalls]

Thanks! So do the females ever pass the gene on to their daughters?

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! Yes, I think it works either way.
I copied this a while back (to help me wrap my head around it):
Blue Egg Genetics

The gene for blue eggs O is dominant, birds that have either O/O or O/o+ will have the gene.

This gene is located extremely close to the pea comb gene P, again a dominant so either P/P or P/r+ will be pea combed.

These genes are nearly always inherited together. So any pea combed pullets are very likely to lay blue/green based eggs.

Green to Khaki eggs are blue eggs with a surface coating of brown pigment.

Daughters of:

A blue egg O/O male mated to a white egg female o+/o+ could be expected to lay paler blue eggs.

A blue egg O/O male mated to a brown egg female o+/o+ could be expected to lay green eggs.

A blue egg O/o+ male mated to a white egg female o+/o+ could be expected to lay some blue eggs and some white eggs.

A blue egg O/o+ male mated to a brown egg female o+/o+ could be expected to lay some green/khaki eggs and some brown eggs.

In my limited experience, the results have been the same if you exchange male for female:
A blue egg O/O 'female' mated to a white egg 'male' o+/o+ could be expected to lay paler blue eggs...
Good luck!

Lisa

 

[sonew123]

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Lisa-you rock Ive been looking for that chart! thank you~

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! Dense as a ROCK maybe, hahaha. Whenever I run across those tidbits someone with expertise in poultry genetics has posted, I copy them down to refer to later. This page has some of the pertinent info for my barred/blue barred green-eggers.
I apologize that I never remember 'who posted what' to give them credit.

Lisa

 

[sonew123]

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Lisa,

I slapped that under my "favorites" on my computer to go back too thanks again

 

[becstalls]

You guys are all awesome!

Thanks so much!