Dixie Chicks

[Ravynscroft]

What'd I miss??? Yoda what?

 

[BriardChickens]

I think that's about 25% chance of greens/olives, 75% on variations of browns/tans... minihorse can give more solid numbers though...

not a very good chance for getting more green/blue egg layers. Scratch that plan I guess...

 

[Ravynscroft]

not a very good chance for getting more green/blue egg layers. Scratch that plan I guess...

You might get closer to 50% like Alaskan said, brain is fried today... breeding EE's is a crap shoot on colors is all, you might do well though...

 

[bamadude]

It depends if the EE has 2 blue egg genes. Some EE have 2. Some have 1

 

[bamadude]

What'd I miss??? Yoda what?

Post 19862

 

[Alaskan]

If I incubated green eggs, so EExOrpington, would coloured eggs would I get?:/

I think that's about 25% chance of greens/olives, 75% on variations of browns/tans... minihorse can give more solid numbers though...

A green egg from an EE will most likely have one (not two) copies of the Blue Egg Gene. So, any chicks from that EE have a 50% chance of getting that Blue Egg Gene.

The Blue Egg Gene is dominant, any chick that gets it will express it (but of course, no way to know if a rooster got it, except by breeding it)

 

[BriardChickens]

I just want to add a little bit of colour to the egg basket... "shopping" would be the term to use. Definitely don't want something that lays an a light brown egg as I'd want to be able to distinguish to the chantecler eggs if I don't have breeding pans next year.

 

[Alaskan]

Also, Orpingtons lay mid range brown, so no olive eggs, just green.

 

[Alaskan]

Laying hens sell for top dollar, it would definitely be worth raising up a bunch and selling any that lay brown eggs.

 

[minihorse927]

A green egg from an EE will most likely have one (not two) copies of the Blue Egg Gene. So, any chicks from that EE have a 50% chance of getting that Blue Egg Gene.

The Blue Egg Gene is dominant, any chick that gets it will express it (but of course, no way to know if a rooster got it, except by breeding it)

this is 100% correct. Where did the EE orginally.come.from? I know I've been breeding mine to have 2 copies of.the blue egg gene but it isn't easy.