Easter Egger club!

[Shawneegyrl]

Sunday morning was a big morning at my house. All but 1 of the girls laid an egg.

Myst, the blue EE bantam, lays a bluish egg.
Sugar, the cream/tan EE bantam, lays a greenish egg.
The other two bantams are Dominick and BLRW splash.

Two cochins, a RIR, marans, GLW, and buff brahma.




My LF EE is laying a brown egg. I don't understand it because she has green legs.
I have found 2 brown eggs last week that do not look like the others eggs after she leaves the box.
I thought if the legs were green, she had the blue gene

I waited 11 months for that egg!

 

[Gryphon]

Unfortunately, it's only LIKELY that she has the blue gene if she has green legs. Does she also have a pea comb?

 

[jerryse]

Unfortunately leg color is not an indicator of blue eggs. EE usually have green legs, Ameraucana slate legs,and cream legbars yellow legs. Plus I get white legs in some EE that lay blue eggs. Also pea comb does like to go with blue egg genes but Cream legbar have single comb and I have produced EE mixes with rose and cushion combs that lay blue eggs.

 

[Scrambles55]

@Shawneegyrl That is a beeyuteeful basket of eggs!

 

[insanity]

I've taken in 10 unwanted EE hens this year and only 4 lay blue/green eggs. 5 others all layed med to dark olive eggs and 1 well she doesn't lay at all but she is 6+ yrs old so that's OK.

 

[Mybackyardgirls]

Lovely colors and sizes.

 

[Shawneegyrl]

Unfortunately leg color is not an indicator of blue eggs. EE usually have green legs, Ameraucana slate legs,and cream legbars yellow legs. Plus I get white legs in some EE that lay blue eggs. Also pea comb does like to go with blue egg genes but Cream legbar have single comb and I have produced EE mixes with rose and cushion combs that lay blue eggs.

Unfortunately, it's only LIKELY that she has the blue gene if she has green legs. Does she also have a pea comb?

She does also have a pea comb and at first I thought she was "adopting" another girl's egg. Now I am pretty sure it is hers, it is just a little different from the others I have been getting over the past months.

Oh well, luck of the draw. She is still a nice chicken and pretty.

 

[Gryphon]

Aww, that's too bad. I can't remember the exact number, but there's something like a 15% chance that the comb and blue gene can split from each other, which is why there's some regular combed hens laying blue eggs, and pea combed hens laying brown or white. Of course, if an EE was crossed with a pea-combed regular layer then those numbers would be skewed. This is one of the reasons I dislike the rampant outcrossing of EE's to just any other breed with no goal in mind.

 

[chick rookie]

Sunday morning was a big morning at my house. All but 1 of the girls laid an egg.

Myst, the blue EE bantam, lays a bluish egg.
Sugar, the cream/tan EE bantam, lays a greenish egg.
The other two bantams are Dominick and BLRW splash.

Two cochins, a RIR, marans, GLW, and buff brahma.




My LF EE is laying a brown egg. I don't understand it because she has green legs.
I have found 2 brown eggs last week that do not look like the others eggs after she leaves the box.
I thought if the legs were green, she had the blue gene

I waited 11 months for that egg!

I was always told that too but ... not true, I have green legged hens that lay brown eggs as well, I was disappointed to say the least... but they are good eggs so all is well, I'll get my green eggs some day.

 

[CarolinaHen]

When crossing a green egg laying EE hen to an Appenzeller rooster (white egg breed), I am hoping to brighten up the green and hopefully work toward pure blue. Anyone else ever done this cross?