chicks egg colors

[coltssuperbowl83]

If you mix hens with different breeds of roosters for instance (Brown egg rooster with a white egg laying hen or vice versa) what color of eggs will the pullets they make lay? We mixed our Welsummer rooster with white leghorn hens. The chicks are white with brown splashes throughout them but what color eggs will they lay when old enough?

 

[debilorrah]

There is NO telling. Seriously.

 

[raimnel]

really no telling! I have 2 bird that I hatched last summer that are now laying. They are both the same kinds. mom was buff brahma bantam and daddy was an easter egger. so they both hatched out of light brown/tan eggs. but one lays a tanish egg and the other lays a green egg, both eggs are however the same size, small. ya just

 

[HighNDryFarm]

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Do they resemble either of the breeds you bred? I'm using an Ameraucana roo with some Ameraucana hens (so I know what I'm getting there) but the others are Buff Orpington, barred rock, brahma and sexlink. Will you recognized the breed of the chicken?

 

[Heluerto]

It can vary pretty much from one colour to the other.

I crossed a Lavender Aruacana Male (blue eggs) with a Burford Brown hen (Dark Brown eggs) and ended up with this:

The best bit is, when you crack these eggs open, the inside is blue!

 

[enola]

You will get a brown tinted egg from that cross, probably lighter than the egg a Barred Rock will lay.

 

[raimnel]

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Do they resemble either of the breeds you bred? I'm using an Ameraucana roo with some Ameraucana hens (so I know what I'm getting there) but the others are Buff Orpington, barred rock, brahma and sexlink. Will you recognized the breed of the chicken?

they both look different, EEer ish, but have feathered feet lol I know who all mine take after. I also have a roo, that hatched from the same mom, HE looks like an EE I had, but he also looks like my buff brahma roo only BIGGER!, he also has some feathering on his feet and legs. he is buff brahma X EE

 

[Rathbone]

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That blue inside sounds gorgeous!
Since I am always searching for dark eggs I keep wondering: if you cross a chicken that produces a dark shelled egg (those hyline browns I buy at the store are really dark) with a chicken that coats the egg making it dark (marans)- how dark an egg could you get?