Egg color question

[kelseyk]

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?

 

[Floof]

That should create olive eggs. If you did it the other way it would be sex linked olive eggers

 

[bhawk-23]

Following!

 

[kelseyk]

That should create olive eggs. If you did it the other way it would be sex linked olive eggers

So if the hens are a sex link breed and roosters are not, then you will get sex link chicks.....but does not work the other way around? (Still trying to figure out a lot of the breed crossing stuff).

 

[JacinLarkwell]

So if the hens are a sex link breed and roosters are not, then you will get sex link chicks.....but does not work the other way around? (Still trying to figure out a lot of the breed crossing stuff).

No, a barred female with certain males will make sexlinks. A sexlink female is a potluck of genes that won't be reliable for any guaranteed breeding crosses

 

[FuzzyCritters]

It doesn't matter which parent is which, since egg color is not sex linked.

 

[kelseyk]

Another question I have is, what are the different shades of green? Is there a green egg chart (I have seen charts for blue and brown)? I know there is Olive, Moss, Sage, and Mint....but not sure which order they go in or what darkness each is.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

It doesn't matter which parent is which, since egg color is not sex linked.

Oh that's true. I meant chick down sexlinks

 

[kelseyk]

It doesn't matter which parent is which, since egg color is not sex linked.

Awesome! Thanks for the answer! I have 2 CCL roos that I love their coloring! One is a white and tan with hardly any brownish red feathering (very light) that I want to cross with my Wheaten Maran hens and hope to get lighter colored Olive eggers. And then a black barred CCL with no brownish red at all that I want to cross with my Barred Rock hen to see if I get barred green eggers.

 

[FuzzyCritters]

Oh that's true. I meant chick down sexlinks

Sorry, I should have made it more clear who I was responding to! I was referring to the OPs question of "does it matter which parent is the blue egger and which is the brown". I knew you were talking about chick down sex-links.