Golden Comet Rooster x Easter Egger

[TopRooster]

The eggs sure are darker I will try to get the color to pop out the most I can

 

[TopRooster]

Here are there eggs. The mom laid a sky blue egg .

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[HandsomePoultry]

Wow those are a really neat color. Thank you!

 

[drumstick diva]

those look like olive eggs. People are always wanting to have an "olive egger."

 

[Lady of McCamley]

You won't get an Olive Egger from a Barred Rock, their brown is not dark enough.....BUT....if you are lucky, and have the right Comet line,.I've noted that my Gold Comets often have terra cotta colored eggs...which is a nice burnt red color, rich, which could give a darker shade of green to the egg, assuming the blue egg gene comes through, and Poppa Comet has enough of the terra cotta genes (it takes about 13 for brown wash, and it is pretty complicated as to how dark a wash you get from one generation to the next).

I bred my Gold Star (same as Gold Comet) to my Barnevelder rooster, and the color came through with a very rich terra cotta to the daughter. (I know my Barney has good color as I've placed him over white layers, and those daughters have a good tan to them indicating poppa has to have had some decent brown otherwise they'd be cream or white).

To get a true olive egger, you need a blue egg gene bred to a very dark layer, like a Marans or Welsummer or Barnevelder (some lines).

The darker brown wash over the blue is what produces the olive coloring.

Take that first olive generation and breed back to the dark brown, and you'll get 50% F2 (2nd generation) olive eggers which will be a deeper olive.

Be aware that some breeds have brown inhibitor. My Rhodebars lay a very cream colored egg, although there is RIR infused (a medium brown egg). The daughter of my Barney and Rhodebar lays a cream egg (pretty sure its her).

If you place the dark brown gene over a lighter gene, typcially (not always...if there is any brown inhibitor) you get a color inbetween both parents. That's on white shell. With the blue gene added, you then get shades of greens.

Egg genetics is fascinating. Here's a good read to get you started:
https://scratchcradle.wordpress.com/2012/07/01/gms1-genetics-of-egg-color/

Happy hatching

LofMc (who is working on F1 olive eggers as we speak...waiting for those daughters to lay to see what I've got

 

[HandsomePoultry]

You won't get an Olive Egger from a Barred Rock, their brown is not dark enough.....BUT....if you are lucky, and have the right Comet line,.I've noted that my Gold Comets often have terra cotta colored eggs...which is a nice burnt red color, rich, which could give a darker shade of green to the egg, assuming the blue egg gene comes through, and Poppa Comet has enough of the terra cotta genes (it takes about 13 for brown wash, and it is pretty complicated as to how dark a wash you get from one generation to the next).

I bred my Gold Star (same as Gold Comet) to my Barnevelder rooster, and the color came through with a very rich terra cotta to the daughter.  (I know my Barney has good color as I've placed him over white layers, and those daughters have a good tan to them indicating poppa has to have had some decent brown otherwise they'd be cream or white).

To get a true olive egger, you need a blue egg gene bred to a very dark layer, like a Marans or Welsummer or Barnevelder (some lines).

The darker brown wash over the blue is what produces the olive coloring.

Take that first olive generation and breed back to the dark brown, and you'll get 50% F2 (2nd generation) olive eggers which will be a deeper olive.

Be aware that some breeds have brown inhibitor. My Rhodebars lay a very cream colored egg, although there is RIR infused (a medium brown egg). The daughter of my Barney and Rhodebar lays a cream egg (pretty sure its her).

If you place the dark brown gene over a lighter gene, typcially (not always...if there is any brown inhibitor) you get a color inbetween both parents.  That's on white shell.  With the blue gene added, you then get shades of greens.

Egg genetics is fascinating.  Here's a good read to get you started:
https://scratchcradle.wordpress.com/2012/07/01/gms1-genetics-of-egg-color/

Happy hatching

LofMc (who is working on F1 olive eggers as we speak...waiting for those daughters to lay to see what I've got

Thanks for the read, I will look at it when I get a chance. I am hige on genetics, they are fascinating to me. I breed quality leopard geckos so I have a decent understanding of their genes. I am not quite as familiar with chickens yet, but after awhile I hope to have a decent understanding of how mosts breeds genetics work and what crosses and such may be made.

 

[New hatcherd]

Any suggestions on how this chick will turn out? What color eggs she might lay. (If it is a rooster) It is part of my production flock. Because of whitish color I am assuming it was fathered by the commet rooster and not my barred rock. It's the bird towards the front

I believe that it will stay white and be a breeder hen