Cuckoo Maran x EE Roo = ?

[mslrw057]

I am trying to determine if possible if crossing my new cuckoo maran hens with one of my two Easter Egger Roosters will create an olive egger( or at least a more green egg).

I currently have 2 Roosters. Younger Rooster(hatched 5-2-22) is offspring of my EE hen and EE roo. They were purchased in July 2021 as Ameraucanas from McMurrays. After much reading especially on this site they are not Ameracuanas but Easter Eggers. My original plan when I thought they were Ameraucanas was that the pairing would create a olive egger that sex could be determined at hatch.
I am assuming my EE Roo has Atleast one blue gene as I also hatched 2 other chicks(5-2-22) from buff Orpington hens. They are laying a slight green tinted egg.

Attaching pictures of original EE Roo(pic 3 & 4) and EE hen(Pic 5 & 6)And young Roo(pic 1 & 2)
Any advise/opinions/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I don't know the answer to your question, sorry, but I have a question of my own for you. What kind of comb is that on the red rooster in pic #3? I think he's quite handsome.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Oh, you might get better response if you move this to the Genetics section. There are some very knowledgeable folks over there!

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I'm no expert but you should get an olive egger out of that I think. Although the Marans dark egg gene is recessive so I could be very wrong.

 

[Coops Dad]

I have an Ameraucana rooster over a Cuckoo Marans hen, I hatched several of her eggs and one of the resulting chicks was a hen who began laying in the last two weeks. This is one of the daughter hen's eggs:

 

[Coops Dad]

The egg to the left is from one of the Ameraucana x Ameraucana daughters. The sons were delicious.

 

[mslrw057]

Oh, you might get better response if you move this to the Genetics section. There are some very knowledgeable folks over there!

I didn’t see that section. Thanks for the advice I will go look for it again

 

[mslrw057]

I don't know the answer to your question, sorry, but I have a question of my own for you. What kind of comb is that on the red rooster in pic #3? I think he's quite handsome.

I don't know the answer to your question, sorry, but I have a question of my own for you. What kind of comb is that on the red rooster in pic #3? I think he's quite handsome.

Im not sure either. The whole comb type thing keeps me confused

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Oh well ....

 

[3KillerBs]

Yes.

I have a homebrewed OE who is the result of some unspecified Marans rooster x EE hen.

It took her 9 months to lay, but she finally produced some lovely, large, olive eggs.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/9-months-later.1559546/

It may or may not work though because you don't know if your EEs are homozygous or heterozygous for the blue eggs.

Best to pick the hens who lay the bluest eggs for the experiment.