Dixie Chicks

[Ravynscroft]

Is that true? You can get a blue egg layer by crossing a white with a green? I have three white layers, three green layers and a olive. But my roo is a brown :-(

Green eggs is from a blue shell with brown pigment overlay... crossing in a white egg layer dilutes the brown pigment... as long as the blue shell gets passed to offspring, it *should* produce more blue rather than green... works best with double blue shell genes, but can be done with single...

 

[minihorse927]

@henniblehe's closest to blue wheaten, but not perfect.

 

[Beer can]

Green eggs is from a blue shell with brown pigment overlay... crossing in a white egg layer dilutes the brown pigment... as long as the blue shell gets passed to offspring, it *should* produce more blue rather than green... works best with double blue shell genes, but can be done with single...

Wish I heard that last yr when I put a white leghorn cockerel in the freezer. I almost kept him to make pyle leghorns with my browns, but then I figured the pyle roosters are the pretty ones, the hens are plain and I didn't want anymore roosters. I only wanted to breed the welsummers. Now I'm thinking of not doing that even though I love their dark brown spotted eggs. With adding white j giants and black and blue langshans and now silkies the wife thinks were going to have too many chickens...chicken math is so hard :-(

 

[minihorse927]

Maybe he's crossed with brown red. That would explain the stippling in his neck.

 

[Alaskan]

the blue egg gene is dominant... so you can play with pretty easily

 

[Ravynscroft]

Wish I heard that last yr when I put a white leghorn cockerel in the freezer. I almost kept him to make pyle leghorns with my browns, but then I figured the pyle roosters are the pretty ones, the hens are plain and I didn't want anymore roosters. I only wanted to breed the welsummers. Now I'm thinking of not doing that even though I love their dark brown spotted eggs. With adding white j giants and black and blue langshans and now silkies the wife thinks were going to have too many chickens...chicken math is so hard :-(

Nah, chicken math is so easy! That's why it's sooo bad, lol!

I don't want white feathered chickens... it's like putting out the buffet table for the hawks...

 

[Ravynscroft]

Maybe he's crossed with brown red. That would explain the stippling in his neck.

So it's not just me seeing that???

 

[bamadude]

There is alot going on with egg shades and colors. I have a few legbars that lay green. Isbars lay green....genetically they are both double blue for egg color. Alot of people cross those to leghorns to make SBEL. I actually think that crossing lightens the shade of blue/green egg a good bit. But I have seen eggs from a Isbar x legbars cross. They are pale green.

 

[Ravynscroft]

the blue egg gene is dominant... so you can play with pretty easily

Yup... but eggs usually end up really pale...

I'd rather have a deep saturated blue egg with green tint, than a super pale blue one...

 

[Ravynscroft]

There is alot going on with egg shades and colors. I have a few legbars that lay green. Isbars lay green....genetically they are both double blue for egg color. Alot of people cross those to leghorns to make SBEL. I actually think that crossing lightens the shade of blue/green egg a good bit. But I have seen eggs from a Isbar x legbars cross. They are pale green.

A lot of CCL's are laying green, or at least tinted green... but found out that is because a lot of the UK breeders don't breed for egg color as much as they do type...