Easter Eggers from Ideal?

[Wutthacluck]

I started off with Easter Eggers from TSC (not sure which hatchery they used) and my girls looked almost identical. I only had 6. As they grew they each had some different patterns. A couple looked nearly identical though so it was hard telling them apart for a while. Their fuzzy faces are my absolute favorite. Their eggs are beautiful.

Adding a picture of one of mine as an example. They ALL looked like this, 50+ of them. View attachment 4063252

 

[KS_Chicken_Wrangler]

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I have a handful from Ideal and they all look very similar to this. Mine do have the fluffy cheeks though.

 

[KS_Chicken_Wrangler]

I started off with Easter Eggers from TSC (not sure which hatchery they used) and my girls looked almost identical. I only had 6. As they grew they each had some different patterns. A couple looked nearly identical though so it was hard telling them apart for a while. Their fuzzy faces are my absolute favorite. Their eggs are beautiful.

TSC typically uses Hoover's. I have three "Americanas" from there from my first batch. None of them look alike. Had four, lost one to a hawk. Had a brown one, an orange one, a white one, and a rooster who is very colorful (brown, black, white). I get an olive egg and a blue/green egg out of mine.

 

[Iluveggers]

This is the Ideal EE we kept. She’s 3 weeks old. I’m very curious what color pattern she will end up with! Any guesses? I think maybe partridge on black?

 

[NatJ]

The only correlation bergen chicken color and egg color of which I am aware is ear lobe color. White ear lobes nearly always indicates a white or blue egg, and red ear lobes usually means brown or green eggs. Presumably ear lobe color and the white/brown genes are linked.

No, the genes are not linked.

It's just that some breeds have been selected to have one set of traits, and other breeds have been selected to have other traits.

If you are dealing with purebred chickens, it is true that most breeds with white earlobes lay white eggs, and most breeds with red earlobes lay brown eggs. But once people start mixing breeds, you can get red or white or mixed color earlobes with any color of eggs, depending on what breeds went into the mix.

Regarding the feather colors of Easter Eggers and Olive Eggers from Ideal Poultry, their page on Olive Eggers says:
"Ideal Olive Eggers will be crossed between Easter Eggers and either a Barnevelder or a Welsummer. This will create a multi-colored pattern similar to Easter Eggers"
(Quote taken from: https://www.idealpoultry.com/Product/1955/47)

So if the Olive Eggers have an Easter Egger parent, it is no surprise that they look a lot like the Easter Eggers. And if they often have a Welsummer parent, it is also no surprise that some of them look a lot like Welsummers.

 

[WingItRanch]

No, the genes are not linked.

It's just that some breeds have been selected to have one set of traits, and other breeds have been selected to have other traits.

If you are dealing with purebred chickens, it is true that most breeds with white earlobes lay white eggs, and most breeds with red earlobes lay brown eggs. But once people start mixing breeds, you can get red or white or mixed color earlobes with any color of eggs, depending on what breeds went into the mix.

Regarding the feather colors of Easter Eggers and Olive Eggers from Ideal Poultry, their page on Olive Eggers says:
"Ideal Olive Eggers will be crossed between Easter Eggers and either a Barnevelder or a Welsummer. This will create a multi-colored pattern similar to Easter Eggers"
(Quote taken from: https://www.idealpoultry.com/Product/1955/47)

So if the Olive Eggers have an Easter Egger parent, it is no surprise that they look a lot like the Easter Eggers. And if they often have a Welsummer parent, it is also no surprise that some of them look a lot like Welsummers.

Ideal also has a new Olive Egger they're calling "Onyx Olive Eggers." They look like a BCM & CCL cross to me.

Post in thread 'Onyx Olive Egger?' https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/onyx-olive-egger.1619102/post-28506425