Easter Egger Cross

[mstricer]

Well I guess I will find out color the eggs will be in a couple months. I had to test my home made incubator this Spring so, I used the blue eggs from our 3 EE hen x RIR rooster. I was surprise - the chicks looked just like their EE mom when they hatched out. I now have 3 very pretty EE rooster and a hen that looks just like a RIR w/ muffs

You will probably get brown eggs or green. RIR is just a brown egg and probably won't change the color to olive. I have been collecting the bluest eggs my EE's lay. Their mate is a BCM roo, #5 egg. I plan on breeding the chicks back to a Lavender to see what color egg I receive. I saw some beautiful eggs on here and want an Emerald egg.

 

[Sphinx]

Sphinx--
That's so interesting. Is the one that looks like BCM with beard the brown egg layer and the black easter egger the green egg? So they definitely got the brown gene from dad, and one got the blue gene from the ee mother.


I have 6 chicks from two EE parents. mother is white no markings, rooster was a 'melanized duckwing with the columbian gene'. So black (green sheen) tail, flight feathers, partially black hackles and saddle feathers---and white body...very striking. I know that ee's aren't sexable at hatch, and I have also heard that the chick gets color gene from the opposite sex parent. My thought is that all the dark chicks are going to be hens and all the light chicks are going to be the boys. Do you have any insight to that, or am I completely crazy here?

Back to what the OP said, would an ee cross with a particular breed if it were say a white leghorn and a black EE have a gender indication in chick color. Thanks if you have any views on this...or if anyone does.

I know there's a way to create sex links, but I haven't read up enough on chicken genetics to know how to do it. I think your theories definitely deserve more thought and experimentation though.

I gave the two chicks to my sister in law. I had to text her and ask who laid what. The one that looks like a black EE is the one who lays the olive egg and the one who looks like a bearded BCM lays the brown egg. If you're interested, I can take pictures of them sometime and upload them here.

Here's the eggs they lay. This was taken soon after they began laying. The eggs are much larger now, but the same color.

 

[ChicKat]

Yes, I like those eggs....--- those are nice colors. to me it is interesting that the look of the hen seems to be a match of the egg color you would expect.

Please do photo them and post, when you get the chance...I will subscribe so when you get around to it---I will get notification. Thanks a bunch.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I'm not sure if that works with all brown egg layers. I thought you had to cross an Ameraucana with a BCM (Black Copper Marans) that lay the chocoate colored DARK brown eggs, in order to get an olive egger.

You can do it with Penedesenca or welsummers as well. to get a olive egg.
ameraucana or ee with a lighter brown (orphington or white egg layer. To get more blue or blueish green or green.

I am counting on dark olive eggs when I cross my legbar xwelsummer / penedesenca back to my crele penedesenca

 

[sssharon]

 

[sssharon]

This is my Easter Egger. To the person that said an Easter egger is just a mutt, I read something today that said Easter Eggers were becoming one of the most desirable chickens. I also have a white leg horn EE that lays the prettiest blue egg, and those seem to be one of the most coveted colors. I guess I'm just lucky. I also have a barred rock EE

that lays a green egg sometimes greenish blue. I guess I really am lucky.

 

[MrsChickens]

I thought that crossing a EE with a brown egg layer you got a Olive Egger? Still a mutt but a designer mutt.

Actually an Olive Egger is a hybrid cross between a dark brown breed and a blue egg laying breed. To produce these olive green eggs the hen needs to have parentage of a dark brown layer (Barnevelder, Copper Marans, Pendesenca) and then a blue layer, (Cream Legbar or Ameracauna).