Egg Color Genetics

[aoxa]

No reason to be sorry. I think we are friends and I can tease you a bit.

You’ll often find that theory is one thing and reality is something else. Theory tells you what should happen. Reality often gets in the way of that.

A lot of times it’s real hard to know what is in the genetic background of chickens. All breeds are developed from crosses. There is no such thing as DNA testing to tell if one is genetically “pure” for a breed. All kinds of surprises can come out of them.

I once got designer eggs from a breeder to hatch. The chicks came out looking pretty much like they are supposed to. But when I crossed them with a red rooster, a chicken that was “pure” for extended black gave me a red chicken. I’ve had some other surprises from them. You just don’t know what is hiding in that genetic mix no matter where you get the chicks.

Very true

 

[Sahwithchicks]

Thank you all for the responses... I was pretty sure it was very far fetched to get white eggs from a black copper maran hen, no matter what breed to, in this case a possible Cochin.


As I researched, I found pertaining to SBELS, first gen. SHOULD be all blue, any_2 crosses would have some white egg layers and of course the odd egg somewhere in the mix