Egg color pondering~

[R3M1X]

Ok so I know that breeding different chickens with different egg colors can result in various colors and shades, such as blue and brown can make green. But I dont think I have heard about pinkish or rosy colored eggs. Maybe its temporary since she just started laying, but my 5.5 month old pullet is laying eggs with a rosy tint to them. The chickens I have lay a light brown or a creamy tan/beige color. So I figured that she would also lay something similar but I have been surprised with every egg so far having a pink tint. It's a little hard to tell the pink tint in the photo I think, but the top egg is the pink tinted egg and the other two are of the two breeds I have that she is mixed with.

I'd like to create new colored eggs in the future, maybe next year, so if you'd be so kind to share your mixes and results below that'd be awesome~~

 

[nicalandia]

For light brown or tinted eggs one should cross a brown egg rooster(Isa Brown) with a White egg hens(White Leghorns), For Pinkish colored eggs one is to cross a White egg rooster(White Leghorn) and brown egg hen(Isa brown), as you may have guessed aside from being polygenic the brown egg trait is also bound to sex linked genes enhancing or inhibiting it's expression.


Here is the Hyline Pink the result of a White Leghorn sire and a Hyline brown dame

 

[nicalandia]

The reciprocal cross produces what is called the hyline Sonia and it produces darker eggs than the pink because the sire now is the isa brown and the dame is the white egg layer