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lol I still have an hour and a half only 10:30 I wanted to spend more time watching the chicks yesterday but the brooder is just to hot to sit in for very long. LOL
I did notice that some of the ee chicks are a dark charcoal grey/black bodied and the wings are a light grey will be interested to see what they turn out as . Actually a lot of the ee chicks had unusual coloring
Question -- if you breed EE to EE do you end up with a "normal" ee or do you get a nasty olive egger ??
Short answer, you'll get normal EEs. BUT normal EES can lay olive colored eggs.
There is a lot of differing info out there about EEs and even what the name itself means. Originally, I think it was a hatchery name for their line of non standard Ameraucanas. Most hatcheries still call these birds Ameraucanas, but since they are not any of the sanctioned colors for Ams, the use of the EE label was made to differentiate hatchery quality from Ams bred to the standard. Now, at least on BYC, EE has come to mean any mix with a blue layer. I think that's stupid, because half Am and half another breed is a barnyard mix! Over the years, I'm sure the hatcheries have mixed in some crosses once in awhile, to get better layers, and lately I have noticed all the new lovely colors, which means the hatcheries are going and buying project birds to add to their lines.
So, if you breed your non standard hatchery Ams together, you will get more of the same. You should expect mostly light green eggs, with the possible blue and brown from some hens. Olive eggs come from a hen that has the gene for blue shells (makes the entire shell blue rather than white) and the hen also has genes for very dark brown, which makes the eggs olive colored. Green egg is a blue shelled egg that gets a light brown coating on the outside. Blue shell genes are dominant, so easy to pass on, but so are brown genes, and once they are in the population, would take awhile to remove.
Cool beans and Thank you again Mrs. Teacher.I just find the olive colored egg's as not appetizing and actually off putting.
Totally personal opinion.
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