Breeding Easter egger with different breeds

[Laura12499]

Barnyard Mix would certainly be accurate.
If they lay colored eggs when they grow up, then I think it would be accurate to call also call them Easter Eggers.



If the mother lays blue or green or olive eggs, and the rooster is supposed to be an Easter Egger, then you should get either most or all daughters laying blue (or green or olive) eggs.

From the cream and and brown eggs, you could get all, half, or non of the daughters laying blue eggs (or green or olive.) It depends on how many blue-egg genes the rooster has.

Because you say the rooster hatched from a blue egg, there's a good chance he has at least one copy of the blue-egg gene, but it's not a certainty. And we currently know nothing about what egg color genes he got from his father.

If you want to figure out his genes by checking the egg color of his daughters:
--If he ever sires a daughter who lays not-blue eggs, from any mother, then you know he has a copy of the not-blue gene.
--If he ever sires a daughter who DOES lay blue eggs, from a mother that does not herself lay blue eggs, then you know he has at least one copy of the blue egg gene.
--And if he sires daughters in both categories, you will know that he has one copy each of the blue and not-blue genes

My bad, it’s Meyers hatchery

 

[NatJ]

My bad, it’s Meyers hatchery

Meyers has lots of different colored-egg layers, but I can tell from the descriptions that some should be pure for the blue egg gene, while some others are definitely NOT pure for it.

So I would expect your rooster to have at least one copy of the blue egg gene, but I wouldn't bet either way on whether he's got a second copy of it.