crossing a wyandotte and a cream legbar?

[Doublete]

I did something like that last year with a blue egg CCLB rooster over an Australorp hen. The daughter's all lay green egg's.

So is that an olive Egger?

 

[The Moonshiner]

So is that an olive Egger?

No

 

[Doublete]

No

What is it? If they all lay green eggs...
So it HAS to be a dark egg roo over a blue hen?
Is it just nothing if it’s a blue roo over a dark hen?

 

[The Moonshiner]

Read the thread again.
Do you consider any or every green egg an olive egg?
To me an olive egg needs to be close to an olives color not just green.
You need very dark brown egg genes in the mix to produce those.
Any standard brown eggers won't be enough. Even a lot of welsummers and marans don't lay dark enough eggs to get the desired color.
It doesn't have to be a dark brown egg rooster over a blue egg hen. It can be the other way around.
The reason many say it needs to be the dark brown egg rooster over blue egg hen is because there's more than a dozen genes involved in the brown egg genes and a few are sex linked. Hens do not pass sex linked genes to their daughters but roosters do so in theory a dark brown egg rooster can/would pass more dark brown egg genes to the daughters.

 

[Doublete]

Read the thread again.
Do you consider any or every green egg an olive egg?
To me an olive egg needs to be close to an olives color not just green.
You need very dark brown egg genes in the mix to produce those.
Any standard brown eggers won't be enough. Even a lot of welsummers and marans don't lay dark enough eggs to get the desired color.
It doesn't have to be a dark brown egg rooster over a blue egg hen. It can be the other way around.
The reason many say it needs to be the dark brown egg rooster over blue egg hen is because there's more than a dozen genes involved in the brown egg genes and a few are sex linked. Hens do not pass sex linked genes to their daughters but roosters do so in theory a dark brown egg rooster can/would pass more dark brown egg genes to the daughters.

Ok... I understand the color issue but wasn’t clear on why people felt it had to be one roo over the other
This is a good explanation re sex linked. Thank you

 

[The Moonshiner]

I've done it both ways myself and didnt notice a difference.
Someone on here told me about some of the brown egg genes being sex linked and they know a lot about genetics so I tend to believe it I just don't know exactly how much it does make a difference because like I said I didn't notice with my birds. If I work with them in the future I'll go with the rooster being the dark brown side cause it may help and shouldn't hurt for sure.
I also know many many people have told me its because the rooster influences egg color not the hen. That's nonsense and clearly wrong to anyone with even a bit of genetics knowledge but its still brought up so IDK how many that say the rooster needs to be the dark brown side is believing or repeating that because of that type of craziness.

 

[BlueBaby]

So is that an olive Egger?

No, the resulting female offspring lay just a green egg, not an olive egg. The Australorp hen used didn't lay a real dark brown egg.

 

[Liejt]

I’m curious what will the chicks look like crossing a male creme legbar with a blue laced red Wyandotte hen? And 2ndly the egg color

 

[EllieandOlive]

Here is my cross of anaustralorp (light creamy brown) with a light blue-green easter egger: the result was a light olivey-green on the bottom center of the picture.

 

[EllieandOlive]

Also, here is an example of my proper olive egger!