Is there a genetic link between egg color and ear lobe color?

[Sparklee]

Is there a genetic link between egg color and ear lobe color?

Obviously it looks that way with red lobes usually providing brown eggs and white lobes usually producing white eggs. But is there a link? They figured out the chicken genome a few years back, right?

Why would some of my Barred Rocks (okay, I don't know what they are exactly, someone gave us the eggs years ago and we've been flock breeding them together for a while). They look like Barred Rocks, but I have one with white lobes. Where did that come from after 3 groups of progeny?

I've also read about some supposed pure BCMarans suddenly showing up white lobes.

Why are white lobes so persistently dominant? Does the white lobe color sneak in some how and attach at the allele position with super glue or something? (Yeah, I know I'm probably using genetic terms improperly. The super glue is the thing to focus on.)

Thanks.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

No; no genetic link.

Like the superglue analogy, though

 

[Sparklee]

Urf. :: sound made by someone whose hopes have been dashed ::

Thanks for reply.