Cream Legbar Laying Pink Eggs??

[minifarmmom]

I’m still not sold that this Legbar laid a pink egg. Never heard anything like this happening.

Haha I would post a video of I could!

 

[minifarmmom]

What if both the parents were impure and carried a recessive brown gene, but they otherwise presented as CCL? Could that be what happened? Asking, not suggesting that’s what happened... I don’t know enough about egg color genetics

Interesting, I suppose anything is possible. Super odd!

 

[Cyprus]

What if both the parents were impure and carried a recessive brown gene, but they otherwise presented as CCL? Could that be what happened? Asking, not suggesting that’s what happened... I don’t know enough about egg color genetics

Brown is dominant

 

[Cyprus]

I'm thinking it goes something like this:
3 or more generations ago, there was a cross into Bielefelder
This would produce a green egg layer
Said Green layer is bred to a CCL carrying one white gene
Your hen inherits the white gene and the light brown gene which, together, would produce this egg

This also would allow for her to still be sex linked.

 

[Kris5902]

I guess I'm not super bummed since it adds some pretty color to my egg basket but it does make me question the other hens I got from her as well. I have quite a few legbar hens but only a couple from that hatch.
Do you know if feed can change color of eggs? Because I also have welsummers that lay purple speckled and purple/pink coated eggs..I really don't think it does..

I don’t think feed can change it, but I’m just starting out and could be wrong.

Purple speckled and purple pink coated eggs? I’m going to have to a welsummers to my wish list! I haven’t seen any in my area, but that’s great!

My egg business start up I’m focusing on local and pretty eggs... I want to get the affluent “summer people” and tourists buying them. We had lots of people last summer trying to buy eggs, and barely enough to feed ourselves and the WWOOFers during the summer! Young people working hard have big appetites! Lol

Not sure how my 7 (out of 10 chicks) Sapphire boys are going to contribute... I keep winning the “Cockerel Lottery” it seems! I guess with private breeders things can be a bit of a crap shoot, but I’m sure even the best might have hiccups now and then!

 

[aart]

Brown is dominant

But that's for coating, not egg shell color.
IIRC, blue shell genes are dominant.

 

[Cyprus]

But that's for coating, not egg shell color.
IIRC, blue shell genes are dominant.

IIRC?

 

[RumneyRoost]

What colour is the inside of the shell of the pink egg?

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Brown is dominant

Brown is applied to white eggs like a spray from a can of spray paint. The blue egg gene is dominant to non blue (white)

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

What colour is the inside of the shell of the pink egg?

It will be white. Only blue eggs are blue on the inside.