Easter egger cross

[tminer]

I know next to nothing about genetics. I was surprised this chick hatched 'blue?' Just wondering how I ended up with this chick from this cross? I only have the one rooster and I know what hen the egg came from. This chick hatched from a green egg. Every other chick hatched completely black with a small crest except this one.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

My EE that looks basically like yours throws mostly blue chicks with my black rooster... but I can tell she is blue based under her wild type partridge.

One of your may be hiding the diluter gene to black.. it's recessive, so just not showing in your parent stock is my best guess. But this whole genetics thing is such a wide field I'm trying to retain what I've learned and so much learning still left to do!

 

[The Moonshiner]

I'd be surprised too.
That rooster and that hen can not produce a blue chick. Can't happen.

 

[The Moonshiner]

My EE that looks basically like yours throws mostly blue chicks with my black rooster... but I can tell she is blue based under her wild type partridge.

One of your may be hiding the diluter gene to black.. it's recessive, so just not showing in your parent stock is my best guess. But this whole genetics thing is such a wide field I'm trying to retain what I've learned and so much learning still left to do!

Blue isn't recessive and can't hide.
One copy makes blue. Two copies make splash.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Blue isn't recessive and can't hide.
One copy makes blue. Two copies make splash.

BBS seems so basic and simple to understand... yet, somehow I'm a little confused. Something for me to ponder and get set STRAIGHT in my brain. Because the things I learn get twisted into my understanding only to discover that that wasn't the whole truth to HOW it worked. Or that I have a basic idea but not a TRUE understanding.

I just discovered how much I do NOT like breeding black cross blue and think it dilutes both colors into each other for a faded looking black instead of crisp and too dark of a blue that it looks blackish.

Thank you for attempting to set me straight!

 

[tminer]

I'd be surprised too.
That rooster and that hen can not produce a blue chick. Can't happen.

It's 100% the only option. I moved this hen and an old red hen that lays brown eggs to another barn and hatched only the green eggs from this hen

 

[HenHouse4Life]

Hi!
I have just started with the wonderful world of genetics and this has helped me especially since I'm more of a visual learner. I hope it can help someone else.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Yes that chart is right.
Looks to me that that rooster and hen clearly have black not blue.
Black × black makes black only. Can't make blue.
Maybe one of those are so dark of blue they look black? IDK
Maybe there was a spontaneous gene mutation? IDK
Was that hen with other rooster? That was blue or splash before moved to that pen?
If so how long before?
IDK

 

[tminer]

Yes that chart is right.
Looks to me that that rooster and hen clearly have black not blue.
Black × black makes black only. Can't make blue.
Maybe one of those are so dark of blue they look black? IDK
Maybe there was a spontaneous gene mutation? IDK
Was that hen with other rooster? That was blue or splash before moved to that pen?
If so how long before?
IDK

I don't get it. I have no other roosters and the birds had not been let out of the barns yet as it was still cold and we have snow on the ground