kelseyk
Free Ranging
I have seen the egg color charts that show white+brown=tan, blue+brown=green, green+brown=Olive, etc. My question is: does it matter which (hen or rooster) lay a certain color to achieve the color egg wanted? If I wanted olive eggs but a lighter color chicken...could I cross my Wheaten Marans hen with my really light CCL rooster and get olive eggs? Or do the hens need to be blue layers, and rooster brown, to make sure that the offspring lay eggs with the blue color under the brown tint?