EE Rooster

[NoSkiveez]

I have a White EE Rooster and several brown EE hens. I was planning on hatching some eggs in the next month or so and I was a bit curious about what the color of the off spring would be.

The roo was originally brown when we got him (at a week old) and he eventually turned white.

 

[Illia]

If he was originally brown, describe his current "white" color - Does he have cream colored hackles or saddle feathers? Does he have a black tail? Because otherwise your description of him as a chick actually doesn't help me tell you what the offspring will be.

 

[NoSkiveez]

His tail is black and he does have cream colored hackles and saddle feathers.

 

[Illia]

That's what I thought.

(he's not white then. . .)

The offspring should turn out, according to my experience with other people's crossing of these colors (since the chicken calculator doesn't help, as brown EE hens I have little clue on the genetics of) as silver (black and white striping on the body), brown like the hens, and "white" like the rooster, except with some brown and black on the wings and chest.

 

[NoSkiveez]

Well, Darn! I was really hoping to get a few white chicks out of him!