How to know what color egg a chicken will lay

[Michael8427]

This may be a dumb question but say you bread an Amerucana with another kind of chicken that lays brown or white eggs , will the chick then lay blue eggs or no, (this is just hypothetical) I’m not doing it now but I am beginning to get into breeding and was wondering how all that worked

 

[Ascholten]

In theory it can, but you won't know what color the eggs are going to be until they start laying. People breed just like you stated, hoping for this or that color but since we can't pick which exact gene gets passed to the kids, we don't know until they start producing if we got lucky or not on egg color.
Good luck when you do start!

Aaron

 

[Michael8427]

In theory it can, but you won't know what color the eggs are going to be until they start laying. People breed just like you stated, hoping for this or that color but since we can't pick which exact gene gets passed to the kids, we don't know until they start producing if we got lucky or not on egg color.
Good luck when you do start!

Aaron

Oh okay, thank you so much !

 

[snood dude]

If you breed a blue egger with white egger you get a chalky light blue egg. I had a chicken like that one time.

 

[4Urbanchix]

I don’t know anything about breeding but I came across this chart

 

[Ascholten]

I guess the best way to sum it up is, charts like that show what's possible, not what's guaranteed.
Where does the sex fit in at? ie does it matter which one is the blue egger /brown egger etc? Ive heard people say several different things, wondering which is correct?

Aaron