Easter Egger/Aracauna/Ameracauna egg colors question:

[treeclimber233]

It is easy to tell what color gene the hen carries (ha ha). But how can you tell what gene the rooster carries? I had 3 hens: two laid the blue egg and the third lay the pink egg. The pink egglayer was killed (darn racoon). I raised some babies and they are laying blue and green (and possibly pink) eggs. How can I tell which of my "baby" roos are carrying the green gene so I can put them with my green egg hens? Or does it matter? My original breeders were white and the babies are all different colors.

 

[pips&peeps]

You cannot tell what color egg gene the rooster carries unless you hatch him. Most breeders will hatch their rooster from a blue egg.

Hatch a batch of only the blue eggs and keep one of the roosters from it.

If a person has ee's and wants to "breed up" to the blue egg gene you keep picking the eggs that are blue/minty green and hatch from them and breed to a rooster from a blue egg.



Jean

 

[treeclimber233]

I was wondering about breeding my green egg hens so I could sell green eggs and people buying would hatch out green egg layers. Or does it matter what gene the roo carries? Will a blue gene roo with green egg hens still have green egg babies? Or maybe I should ask which gene is dominate - green or blue?

 

[ksacres]

Quote:
Try this site

http://marsa_sellers.tripod.com/geneticspages/page2.html#t8

Scroll down to the "genetics of eggshell color" paragraph.