Green eggs and beards rooster selecting

[NatJ]

Thank you.

POA is to keep roaster for a few years at a time. This question is based around this group. My current main rooster is a copper maran. Has produced olive egger daughters.

I have chosen
1* splash rooster, large beard, pea comb
1* mottled roo, beard, pea comb
As I am not sure of their egg colour's I figured would go for beards, a future feather patterns/colour's.

I will try colour testing when hens start laying

Sounds like you have a good plan

 

[Radrussie]

**edit: sorry my brain went out the window on this one. @Ridgerunner correctly explains below what I failed to explain in this post! Do not pay attention to what I have said here**

Ah yeah, sorry I don’t know what the best testing options would be in S. Africa! But maybe they are decently priced there too.

If your roo hatched out of a green egg, then he DOES carry at least one blue egg gene. So if you breed a roo from a green egg to a hen that lays green or blue… just say that the hen has only one blue egg gene and the Roo does as well - the offspring percentages would be 25% brown/white/tan egg and 75% blue or green egg. So if you want more green/blue layers your best chance of getting some is to breed a roo hatched from a blue or green egg and a hen that lays a blue or green egg!

If you have a fluffy bearded boy that hatched out of a green/blue egg, breeding him to your blue/green egg layers will give the best chance for the next generation to be bearded blue/green layers

In future generations, band chicks that come out of blue or green eggs so that you can ID them as roosters and know that they carry that gene.

 

[Radrussie]

Update: from my raised flock I have started to get olive eggs. Very excited. Today is the most olive eggs I have ever collected 7.

I have selected 2 roo for this flock to grow out.

My next youngest flock is about 5 months now. This batch was hatched from only green, blue and olive eggs. Excited to add more colors into my collection. Once these guys have matured I will only hatch eggs from my own flock and only colored eggs. My beards present in my flock has also increased.

 

[NatJ]

Update: from my raised flock I have started to get olive eggs. Very excited. Today is the most olive eggs I have ever collected 7.

I have selected 2 roo for this flock to grow out.

My next youngest flock is about 5 months now. This batch was hatched from only green, blue and olive eggs. Excited to add more colors into my collection. Once these guys have matured I will only hatch eggs from my own flock and only colored eggs. My beards present in my flock has also increased.

It's great to hear that it's going so well!