feathering out and egg color questions

[Egg Rookie 2010]

I have a mama who hatched eggs....3 are EEs and 1 cuckoo Marans. Will the EEs feather to look like the hen that laid them or is it a crap shoot? The daddy is a Cochin so they all have feathered legs which is so cool but they do not have his coloring as far as I can tell. Also do they lay the color of egg they hatched from if they are a girl?

 

[ShaunThomasobr]

i also want to know

 

[Illia]

They will lay an egg color of both parents' genes combined, same as feather color. If mom or dad had genes for a green egg and the other a brown egg - You'll get likely brown eggs, possibly greenish ones.

EE x Cuckoo Marans = birds that are barred but with a little bit of red on the neck. They'll look like Cuckoo Marans but with beards and have slight reddish orange tickling on them.

They'll lay olive colored eggs.