Easter Egger club!

[tiedyemommy]

Oh my goodness, I'm so excited to join this club! We've got an Easter Egger chick on the way (along with a Welsummer, Speckled Sussex, and Partridge Rock). Cannot wait to get to know this sweet personality, and to see what color eggs we get! (and to find out what color our hen is, of course!)

Welcome & Congratulations!

- TieDyeMommy

 

[MandaMunky]

Updated pictures of Penny (whose name we may need to change to Copper??) age: 3.5 weeks!

 

[FVRM]

Sitting quietly on the side lines and finally have a question. Does it appear that when hatcheries have birds that they don't know the breed of, that they label it an EE? Curious minds want to know...

Hatcheries may not have high quality birds but they don't sell mixed breeds except sex links and EEs. An EE is a mixed bird but at least one parent has to carry the blue egg gene whether its another EE or a true ameraucauna.

 

[hosspak]

Hatcheries may not have high quality birds but they don't sell mixed breeds except sex links and EEs. An EE is a mixed bird but at least one parent has to carry the blue egg gene whether its another EE or a true ameraucauna.

That's what I have come to understand. I was told this girl was an EE, but then I keep remembering the green/blue egg thing. She lays a lt tanish egg with speckles on the pointed end...

 

[estamets]

My understanding is that EE's can lay any color from white to cream to pink to green or blue.

Also, she is beautiful!

 

[deborahca]

I'm a novice here, but I think having one parent carrying the blue egg gene does not guarantee a blue egg.... EE egg can be any color from tan to pink to green to blue to olive... hence "Easter Egger". I'm wondering what color my two are going to wind up laying. I'd have enjoyed blue... what are the probabilities? Is there a table somewhere that gives the probablility for various egg colors out of an unknown cross to one blue-egg-gene parent? What is the genetics? How many EEs out of a random cross wind up carrying the blue egg gene?

 

[FVRM]

My understanding is that EE's can lay any color from white to cream to pink to green or blue.

Also, she is beautiful!

If the offspring comes from two EE parents theres a possibility the eggs may not be green or blue but if it comes from a true ameracauna mixed with either an EE or any other breed the egg will be blue or green because the blue egg gene is dominant.

I'm a novice here, but I think having one parent carrying the blue egg gene does not guarantee a blue egg.... EE egg can be any color from tan to pink to green to blue to olive... hence "Easter Egger". I'm wondering what color my two are going to wind up laying. I'd have enjoyed blue... what are the probabilities? Is there a table somewhere that gives the probablility for various egg colors out of an unknown cross to one blue-egg-gene parent? What is the genetics? How many EEs out of a random cross wind up carrying the blue egg gene?

You can make a punnet square to give you the probabilities. You will need to know what breeds they come from.

 

[FVRM]

That's what I have come to understand. I was told this girl was an EE, but then I keep remembering the green/blue egg thing. She lays a lt tanish egg with speckles on the pointed end...

If the comb is not a pea comb there are high chances it won't lay a blue or green egg. The dominant blue gene was not passed on to your hen.

 

[miksmity]

What about this one then
His tail curves down

 

[deborahca]

You can make a punnet square to give you the probabilities. You will need to know what breeds they come from.

Ah, but that's not what I was asking... I wanted something that folds the statistics of the crosses in as well. I have no way of knowing what the breed cross was, and I'm wondering what are the odds of for example, blue eggs. If it's dominant, that helps. Is this a simple dominance, or is it more like color genetics in horses, which is fairly complicated?