EE Rooster Breeding

[KirstensChickies]

I recently got an Easter Egger rooster and have been debating hatching some of my own chicks and wondered if it'd be possible to predict the outcomes. I've read that EEs are mutts so it's hard to tell what the outcomes would be, and I also tried using a breed calculator but I have no idea how it works lol

My females are a white leghorn, a black australorp, 2 cinnamon queens, and 3 ISA browns.

I'm new to the whole breeding thing, so any help is appreciated!

 

[3KillerBs]

I'm sure a beauty like that would father lovely chicks. No knowing if he's got the blue egg gene until his daughters are laying though.

 

[nicalandia]

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I recently got an Easter Egger rooster and have been debating hatching some of my own chicks and wondered if it'd be possible to predict the outcomes. I've read that EEs are mutts so it's hard to tell what the outcomes would be, and I also tried using a breed calculator but I have no idea how it works lol

My females are a white leghorn, a black australorp, 2 cinnamon queens, and 3 ISA browns.

I'm new to the whole breeding thing, so any help is appreciated!

While EEs are not an stablished breed and any color can be expected... That rooster tells us many things about his genetics just by looking at him.

His phenotype is what we call Black Breasted Red or Gold Duckwing. So at the very least he is wildtype on just about every known mutation, should eb/eb at the e locus.

White Leghorns hens are E/E(Extended Black), B/-(Sex linked Barring), S/-(Sex linked Silver) I/I(Dominant White)

The result of such cross will be E/eb, B/b+(for males and b+/- for females), S/s+(s+/- for females), I/i+(Dominant White heterozygous) So basically All white birds with some black specks.

Black Australorp hens are E/E(Extended Black) and everything else wildtype so the result of such cross will be E/eb, All black with some gold leakage when adults

Cinnamon Queens/Isa Brown hens are eWh/eWh, Co/Co, s+/-, I/i+

The result of such cross will be 50% eWh/eb, Co/co+, s+/-, I/i+ Will look like bearded Cinnamon Queen hens/Roosters. 50% eWh/eb, Co/co+, s+/-, i+/i+ like Cinnamon Queens with black feathers instead of where the whites feathers are

 

[KirstensChickies]

I'm sure a beauty like that would father lovely chicks. No knowing if he's got the blue egg gene until his daughters are laying though.

Thank you!

 

[Iluveggers]

He’s absolutely STUNNING.

 

[KirstensChickies]

While EEs are not an stablished breed and any color can be expected... That rooster tells us many things about his genetics just by looking at him.

His phenotype is what we call Black Breasted Red or Gold Duckwing. So at the very least he is wildtype on just about every known mutation, should eb/eb at the e locus.

White Leghorns hens are E/E(Extended Black), B/-(Sex linked Barring), S/-(Sex linked Silver) I/I(Dominant White)

The result of such cross will be E/eb, B/b+(for males and b+/- for females), S/s+(s+/- for females), I/i+(Dominant White heterozygous) So basically All white birds with some black specks.

Black Australorp hens are E/E(Extended Black) and everything else wildtype so the result of such cross will be E/eb, All black with some gold leakage when adults

Cinnamon Queens/Isa Brown hens are eWh/eWh, Co/Co, s+/-, I/i+

The result of such cross will be 50% eWh/eb, Co/co+, s+/-, I/i+ Will look like bearded Cinnamon Queen hens/Roosters. 50% eWh/eb, Co/co+, s+/-, i+/i+ like Cinnamon Queens with black feathers instead of where the whites feathers are

Thank you so much for your explanation! I really appreciate it! your insight will hopefully help me in any future endeavors into chicken genetics I might take

 

[KirstensChickies]

He’s absolutely STUNNING.

Thank you