Easter Egger marked chick from Rhode Island Red brown egg, what color eggs will it lay?

[LottieLou]

Have chicks that are a random combo of White Leghorns, Rhode Island Reds, and Easter Eggers. What color eggs will they lay. We are trying to pick what chicks go to which home, pls help. I have read blue egg gene is dominant, but what about the green?

 

[LottieLou]

Are brown and green dominant to white? What is dominant with brown and green mix?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Eggshells are either blue (dominant) or white (recessive). Ad to that that a wash of brown pigment can be added to the outer surface of the shell, and you will get green eggs is the shell is blue or brown if it is white. There are many genes that go into determining the colour of the wash (some that add pigment, some that remove it), so it can be difficult to determine what you might get, especially with a mix of white, brown and blue egg layers.

The leghorns and rhode islands have white eggshells; the easter eggers may have blue eggshells (without seeing their eggs, it is hard to say as they are essentially a mutt that had a blue egg laying ancestor).

The blue egg gene is linked to the pea comb, so any chicks that have a pea comb are likely to lay a blue or green egg, and chicks with single combs are likely to lay a white or brown egg, but that is not a 100% guarantee in either case. More like 97%.

 

[melissaG]

Eggshells are either blue (dominant) or white (recessive). Ad to that that a wash of brown pigment can be added to the outer surface of the shell, and you will get green eggs is the shell is blue or brown if it is white. There are many genes that go into determining the colour of the wash (some that add pigment, some that remove it), so it can be difficult to determine what you might get, especially with a mix of white, brown and blue egg layers.

The leghorns and rhode islands have white eggshells; the easter eggers may have blue eggshells (without seeing their eggs, it is hard to say as they are essentially a mutt that had a blue egg laying ancestor).

The blue egg gene is linked to the pea comb, so any chicks that have a pea comb are likely to lay a blue or green egg, and chicks with single combs are likely to lay a white or brown egg, but that is not a 100% guarantee in either case. More like 97%.

I concur,
one side point of reference would be that we have an EE crossed S/G dorking that I had hoped would equal a very light tinted blue if I were lucky. Her mother gives a decent blue/green egg. Alas, she's giving me a white egg with a hint of brown tint

Actually it's ok, she's sweet and just starting out laying she's already laying quite nicely 5+ times a week.
Good luck!

 

[LottieLou]

Thank You