Colored Egg Genetics in Roo

[ChloeSilkie08]

If I have a rooster that is Black Copper Maran dad and Easter Egger mom would he have the EE colored egg genetics? And what would happen if I bred him to an EE? Would the chicks have colored eggs?

 

[whiteboy]

Probably has olive egg genetics, a brown over blue cross. He could then supply a brown or blue gene to his offspring. Meaning it would all depend on what he was bred to.

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

Probably has olive egg genetics, a brown over blue cross. He could then supply a brown or blue gene to his offspring. Meaning it would all depend on what he was bred to.

I would breed him to a pure EE

 

[humblehillsfarm]

If I have a rooster that is Black Copper Maran dad and Easter Egger mom would he have the EE colored egg genetics? And what would happen if I bred him to an EE? Would the chicks have colored eggs?

Most likely, if he was bred to an EE or a BCM their offspring would be pale greenish or light olive from an EE or dark olive from the BCM. There is a chance from either the eggs would simply be brown, and an even smaller chance (significantly unlikely) that the offspring from the EE would lay a pure blue egg.

 

[whiteboy]

In that case you may get blue or you may get olive, assuming the ee hens carry 2 copies of the blue gene. This is a very simplified answer, there are other factors but this will generally be the case.

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

Most likely, if he was bread to an EE or a BCM their offspring would be pale greenish or light olive from an EE or dark olive from the BCM. There is a chance from either the eggs would simply be brown, and an even smaller chance (significantly unlikely) that the offspring from the EE would lay a pure blue egg.

Thank you! I really want to get into colored egg layers.

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

In that case you may get blue or you may get olive, assuming the ee hens carry 2 copies of the blue gene. This is a very simplified answer, there are other factors but this will generally be the case.

Thank you!

 

[whiteboy]

I think sometimes we want the egg color genetics to be consolidated in to 1 set of chromosomes, which is simply not the case unfortunately.

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

I think sometimes we want the egg color genetics to be consolidated in to 1 set of chromosomes, which is simply not the case unfortunately.

What do you mean?

 

[whiteboy]

What do you mean?

Think of it as hair color shades in humans. Some have dark brown, some have light brown. Why is the shade different? isn't brown, just brown? Nope.