green legs! Tell me all about them please

[Sonoran Silkies]

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woo-hoo I understood you! LOL thank you...hmm never heard about eye colors having anything to do with eg color thats new! Bit I did have someone email me the other day and ask me what color my silkies eyes were light or dark--care to help me on that one?

eye? I never talked about eye colour. Leg colour

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Silkies should have dark eyes.

 

[sonew123]

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Thats what I thought and thats what I have...I was a little puzzled by them questioning me about that since I honestly have never seen a silkie with eyes other than dark??? Thank you

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

of course I'm going to hatch them!!! lol. I hope I have better luck with my own eggs than with shipped.

Back to your original question; the answer yellow/blue = green makes total sense!!! finally someone explained something so dumb old me could understand!

right now I'm crossing a pink/white legged male with yellow legged females and was told the female offspring would have blue leggs . . . I don't get how it works, but isn't that cool!

check out this thread of mine where they talk about it

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=288894

xoxoxo so good to see your happy face!

 

[cochin44]

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Alright, this is for blue eggs, but what about green and olive?

 

[sonew123]

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Alright, this is for blue eggs, but what about green and olive?

wow a 1 yr old thread was resurrected!!! LOL

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Alright, this is for blue eggs, but what about green and olive?

wow a 1 yr old thread was resurrected!!! LOL

zombie thread!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Alright, this is for blue eggs, but what about green and olive?

Eggshells are either blue or white (we'll ignore croad lanshan mauve/purple eggs as no one has a clue on the genetics involved). Brown eggs are created when the hen "paints" a brown coating over the eggshell. If the eggshell is white, a brown coating makes a brown egg. If the eggshell is blue, the coating makes a green egg. Therer are MANY genes that work to alter the coating: preventing it, whitening it, darkening it, etc. Anywhats, the genes inherited by a hen determine whether there is a coating, and its hue and shade or tint. (Shade darkens, tint lightens, from the standpoint of discussing colour.)

 

[cochin44]

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Alright, this is for blue eggs, but what about green and olive?

Eggshells are either blue or white (we'll ignore croad lanshan mauve/purple eggs as no one has a clue on the genetics involved). Brown eggs are created when the hen "paints" a brown coating over the eggshell. If the eggshell is white, a brown coating makes a brown egg. If the eggshell is blue, the coating makes a green egg. Therer are MANY genes that work to alter the coating: preventing it, whitening it, darkening it, etc. Anywhats, the genes inherited by a hen determine whether there is a coating, and its hue and shade or tint. (Shade darkens, tint lightens, from the standpoint of discussing colour.)

Very well put. Thanks!

 

[sonew123]

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wow a 1 yr old thread was resurrected!!! LOL

zombie thread!

as close to zombi as I could find

LOL