Egg Color: Rooster

[ParksPoultry]

Hey everyone!

I have a little Easter egger roo with some interesting genetics.

The father is homozygous for the blue egg shell. The Hen was an olive egger hatched from a homozygous blue roo over a Welsummer. So olive egg bred back to blue.

My question is, what color egg shells would he pass to his pullets?

 

[Amer]

He is either heterozygous or homozygous for the blue egg gene.
Either all his daughters will lay either blue/green eggs, or half will lay blue/green and the other half brown/white.
I say blue/green and brown/white because brown egg genes are sort of complicated and it's hard to say how they'll express.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

He should pass brown and blue to his daughters if my brain is working right now.

 

[ParksPoultry]

Okay. Thank you to you both! I thought he’d have both.

 

[Amer]

He should pass brown and blue to his daughters if my brain is working right now.

Remember
He could inherit a blue gene from his father and his mother
Or he could inherit a blue gene from his father and a non blue from his mother
We don't know if he's homozygous or heterozygous.