How do you breed for deep blue eggs and teal color eggs?

[SweetieChicken234]

So say starting with Ermine Ameraucana for blue.. do I need to breed them to BCM to make olive and then back cross to blue egger?

 

[TexasBlues]

So say starting with Ermine Ameraucana for blue.. do I need to breed them to BCM to make olive and then back cross to blue egger?

you would probably get teal and spearmint colors by breeding a blue egg laying breed like your ameraucana to a green or olive layer. the off spring that inherit 2 blue genes and the tint overlay could make the teal colors.
tag me if you figure out how to make deep blues.

https://silverhomestead.com/how-to-breed-a-spearmint-egger-chicken/

 

[SweetieChicken234]

you would probably get teal and spearmint colors by breeding a blue egg laying breed like your ameraucana to a green or olive layer. the off spring that inherit 2 blue genes and the tint overlay could make the teal colors.
tag me if you figure out how to make deep blues.

https://silverhomestead.com/how-to-breed-a-spearmint-egger-chicken/

So my guess is this. Blue is light and it needs dark pigment. Dark pigment from a BCM makes green. If you backcross that to a BCM you get a darker green. Maybe 2 or 3 backcrosses to a BCM and then take that dark green egg and cross that to a true blue. You would get dark pigment and then start removing the brown/red shade of that pigment by crossing to a blue layer. It would hopefully remove some of the green and turn it more blue with a deeper pigment than a true blue egger.

If you had a male and female from this mix possibly try breeding those and maybe 25% or so would be actual deep blue.

This is only guesswork because I have not done this and I don't know for sure but based on what I learn this seems the direction to go.

To get deep blue you need heavy pigment and a blue shell. Borrow the BCM pigment and breed out the white shell/brown-red color.

 

[TexasBlues]

The brown pigment is at odds with the blue because it covers the blue pigment.

 

[SweetieChicken234]

The brown pigment is at odds with the blue because it covers the blue pigment.

Right and what I was thinking is that once you established heavy pigment you may be able to breed the brown color out of it by backcrossing to the blue layer. Breed more blue into it and replace the brown pigment.

I don't know if this is possible but it's my best guess.