EE comb & ear color: clues to egg gene?

[technodoll]

I have a question...

Can you tell from a EE's comb type and ear color what egg color gene they carry?

For example, EE roo has pea comb and red ears - does he have the blue or green egg gene or the brown gene?

What if the roo has a pea comb and pale pink ears?

And...

If a hen lays a blue or green egg, does this mean she only carries the gene for that color egg, or could she also be carrying the gene for brown eggs?

Just trying to guess the outcome of crossing certain birds - thanks for your opinions and thoughts!

 

[Cats Critters]

Only questions I can answerer are that birds that lay green eggs carry the genes for blue and brown, and birds that lay blue eggs carry the blue egg genes.

 

[americana-chick]

One of my EE hens that lays blue eggs has whiteish/blueish ear lobes. I dont know if that has anything to do with egg coloring in EE genetics though...

 

[technodoll]

I wish someone would know... I hate guesswork because it will take 6+ months to see if I was right or what!

 

[Dar]

red ears = brown eggs... let me have a look online I think performance poultry has the full write up on it

not much of a write up but here it is
The earlobes of the chicken dictate the color of the shell (white ear lobes = white eggs; red earlobes = brown eggs)
http://www.performancepoultry.com/faq.php

 

[technodoll]

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Even in easter eggers with a pea comb?

 

[Dar]

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Even in easter eggers with a pea comb?

I have one EE with light blue almost like a pearly blue if that makes sense... and another with red... and they both lay aprox the same colour egg
sorry i am not much help after that
sex link----silkie---pullet EE------sexlink

 

[technodoll]

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Even in easter eggers with a pea comb?

I have one EE with light blue almost like a pearly blue if that makes sense... and another with red... and they both lay aprox the same colour egg
sorry i am not much help after that

OK so your hen with the red ears lays a blue-ish egg?

*this gives me hope*!!

 

[Dar]

the one that laid the egg in the pic i just added has red ears... BUT she was hatched from a blue egg too

 

[technodoll]

OK I checked the standard for ameraucanas (the real ones...) and they have red ears & pea combs with slate legs so it's reassuring!

I ask because I purchased a really gorgeous EE roo for reproductive purposes, automatically assuming he had the blue egg gene and I got a bit scared when I started to link red ear lobe color with brown eggs! If he has the brown egg gene I will have to rehome him... but I can only find out after I've hatched some offspring, kept any hens and waited 6 months for them to start laying...

Oh, the dramah!