Egg color?

[DUCKOBSESSED]

Ok thanks. I am new to the different egg color breeding thing. Use to Brown and white eggs. Lol.

 

[XxMingirlxX]

Glad I could help

 

[GhettoRoo]

No they are not less nutritious, the protein coat is like a paint, in the wild they were beneficial through natural selection to blend in with the surroundings, then when humans began domestication they went for the prettiest, largest eggs and most prolific layers. The eggs aren't less nutritious since the protein coat is like a paint - it only goes on the outside of the shell and doesn't affect the yolk and albumen within and since I don't think you eat the shells, a white and brown egg are equally nutritious. And if you were going to eat the egg shell, the difference in proteins would be minute anyway as the main shell contains some naturally and the protein coat is only a thin layer.

I just thought about egg shells, give egg shells back to chickens, so i thought ''protein'' shell, means there more protein etc

 

[carriemacf]

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[carriemacf]

can someone help me with an egg color question...we have a roo who is from a cross of a rhode island red roo and a white leghorn hen. the flock he belongs to contains all pure bred brown egg layers (rhode island red hens, rhode island white hen and barred rock hens) so my question is when this mixed roo mates with the hens in the flock, what color eggs can i expect? does the fact that the roo is half rhode island red and half white leghorn have any influence of the egg color when mating with a hen that lays brown eggs?

 

[XxMingirlxX]

can someone help me with an egg color question...we have a roo who is from a cross of a rhode island red roo and a white leghorn hen. the flock he belongs to contains all pure bred brown egg layers (rhode island red hens, rhode island white hen and barred rock hens) so my question is when this mixed roo mates with the hens in the flock, what color eggs can i expect? does the fact that the roo is half rhode island red and half white leghorn have any influence of the egg color when mating with a hen that lays brown eggs?

The rooster that mates with the hen in no way affects the colour of the egg that the hen lays because it's down to genetics and the protein coat that covers the egg shell. If a hen laid brown eggs before and then mated with your rooster she would still lay the same colour of eggs. (Although as with all hens, the eggs get lighter throughout the laying cycle)

If that hen mated with that rooster and you hatched the eggs that she produced then the chicks would be affected by the roosters genes and would probably lay an egg colour from tan or light brown to the same colour the other hens lay, it depends.

Hope that helps

 

[jonezjollyfarm]

His parents will have had the genes for a Blue egg shell and a brown protein coat which creates a green egg. There are two types of egg shell - Blue and White - and one colour of protein coat - brown but it can come in many different shades from tan to wood to chocolate coloured.

White when there is no protein coat creates a white egg, white when there is a brown protein coat creates a brown egg which is why brown eggs are white on the inside. Blue without a protein coat creates a blue egg, with a brown protein coat creates anything from a green to olive coloured egg.

So your roo has the genes for a blue shell and a brown protein coat so if put with a blue egg layer he will produce a offspring that will lay green or blue eggs, I'm not sure what happens when put with a white egg layer but I think common consensus is the shade of the egg gets lighter so you would get a lighter green egg.

Hope that helps : )

That's good information! I love learning new things!