if an ee is born from a green egg can it lay a blue egg?

[what was i thinking]

can i chime in here??? so if you hatch green eggs, it doesn't mean they will lay green eggs either?
how about anything hatched with a ee roo? will they be ee or not?

 

[klf73]

if both roo and hen come from green eggs then the resultant offspring should lay geen eggs. If the roo is an ee then it really depends on what genes he carries, they don't all carry the blue gene

 

[Bock_Bock]

ok so a blue gene roo mates with a grene gene hen the egg comes out green but the chick can still lay blue, thas cool i have hope once again lol good luck tomyself on this one thanks klf

 

[Chickies-duckies-etc]

Here is my puzzle. In a pen of bantams I got as a backyard flock, there are BTW Japanese (3 hens - 1 roo), 1 buff cochin roo, and 1 EE roo. The jap eggs were incubated and the first pullet has started laying - pretty clear blue eggs.

The pullet is white, with hints of tan on her body and blue in her tail feathers. And a tiny pea comb. She does not have a jap stance, and her legs are too long.

All of the original jap eggs were slightly off white.

Some of the hatchlings, both pullets and cockrels have puffy face feathers.

I sure wish some more of the pullets would start laying so I can see what color their eggs are going to be.

 

[Bock_Bock]

im confused so the jap is laying the blue egg what does this have to do with the ee?

 

[mrsengeseth]

I have 1 ee that lays blue eggs, and am hoping that her coop mate, another EE will lay green! So I have the opposite wonder. Will siblings of the same clutch lay different colored eggs?

 

[Bock_Bock]

if u have blue eggs and i got green eggs are your eggs fertile we can do a swap

 

[Kev]

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There is just one gene- the O gene.. "the blue eggshell gene". Convention has it that O combined with fewer or no tinting or brown eggshell genes causes blue eggs. O combined with genes for tinted eggs= green. O with dark brown genes= dark green or olive.

The genes for O/blue eggshell, tinted, brown, etc are all separate genes and have nothing to do with each other directly.. except they "happen" to combine to give a visual effect.

It is like using a blue paint, if there is a drop of tan paint available, you HAVE to mix some of the blue with tan paint before painting a blank canvas. The result is a greenish canvas.

 

[Bock_Bock]

ok i will keep reading this till i understand thanks

 

[Kev]

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The peacomb was your first clue. Peacomb is dominant.. and it appears he is probably the only peacombed bird in the flock which means automatically any peacombed offspring are the EE's.

The peacomb gene is also located "really really close" to the O(blue eggshell gene) which means in a cross, the peacombed pullets are far more likely to be the ones laying green or blue eggs. Doesn't work so neatly if the cross was with another peacombed breed(such as brahma) or if the EE roo had just one copy of O/blue eggshell but had two copies of pea comb- all his offspring would be peacombed however only half of his daughters would lay blue or green eggs.

What color eggs do your pure Japanese lay? I'm curious.. have some ideas about the visually blue eggs..

BTW my green/blue egger naked necks mostly lay greenish-blue eggs, a few lay blue.. the few that don't lay blue or green eggs lay tinted eggs. Which I find interesting.. as a lot of people say the blue eggs are over white eggs..?