• giveaway ENDS SOON! Cutest Baby Fowl Photo Contest: Win a Brinsea Maxi 24 EX Connect CLICK HERE!

How did I get this olive colored egg?

Snowy_Idaho

In the Brooder
Dec 30, 2021
18
23
34
Moscow, Idaho
I’m trying to better understand egg color genetics. I’ve checked out charts, but I could use some clarification.

I purchased eggs locally from a farm to incubate (they generally just sell their eggs for eating, it’s a mixed flock). The two hens from the batch began laying, and I have questions about how their egg color came to be, based on the roosters on site.

I was told the roosters were a Maran, and a Blue Sapphire Plymouth Rock.

Egg A: Hatched out of a blueish green egg
Egg B: Hatched out of a medium tone brown egg

Egg A chicken: Lays a light bluish green egg
Egg B chicken: Lays dark olive colored eggs

I would have thought that with the two roosters on site, the brown egg would have produced a hen that also lays brown eggs?

Can anyone clarify this for me?

Thanks in advance for helping me wrap my brain around this!! 😀
 

Attachments

  • C0AA0C56-2D37-43D5-AB8D-B2F3BB2C2692.jpeg
    C0AA0C56-2D37-43D5-AB8D-B2F3BB2C2692.jpeg
    168.5 KB · Views: 25
  • 973B190E-7928-4CC0-9A6D-1B8042C4EC58.jpeg
    973B190E-7928-4CC0-9A6D-1B8042C4EC58.jpeg
    475.1 KB · Views: 13
  • A4E6899A-F5C6-4E38-BF6D-12E7BD121D6D.jpeg
    A4E6899A-F5C6-4E38-BF6D-12E7BD121D6D.jpeg
    842.5 KB · Views: 15
  • 0C745BB0-643C-4630-84B3-DAF649513714.jpeg
    0C745BB0-643C-4630-84B3-DAF649513714.jpeg
    1.4 MB · Views: 18

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom