Breeding dark egg with normal egg. What will you get?

[acemario]

I have a Black Copper Maran roo over various hens. What will happen if I incubate an egg from a white leghorn or a regular brown layer? What will the egg look like of this generation? Any ideas or pics would be helpful.

 

[Chick Charm]

CHOCOLATE SWIRL!

Nah just having fun. It will fall in between most likely. It will likely be a darker egg than usual. However it is more difficult to get the real rich chocolate color than it is to get a pale cream egg. So still closer to the the lighter color.
The darker brown egg layers with a Maran roo will get a dark egg.

Sorry no pics. Wish ya the best.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Dark brown over light brown, you'd probably get a medium brown. I have no idea what you would get over white. If you have a blue layer, you could get olive eggers.

 

[acemario]

Ok... so over a light brown egg, we'd be looking at a medium brown egg (darker than an australorp, for example). Over a white egg, we have no real idea for sure... just somewhere between the dark and white... and over a blue layer, olive eggs. Is this all right?

 

[Happy Chooks]

Ok... so over a light brown egg, we'd be looking at a medium brown egg (darker than an australorp, for example). Over a white egg, we have no real idea for sure... just somewhere between the dark and white... and over a blue layer, olive eggs. Is this all right?

I believe so, yes.

 

[acemario]

Awesome! If anyone has pictures or knows of a thread with some, I would love to see some possible turnouts! ....Cue mad scientist laugh....