is there only one way to make a green egg?

[technodoll]

So I have read that if you cross a hen with the blue egg gene to a roo with the brown egg gene, you will get an olive (or green) egg layer.

Is the opposite also true?

If you breed a hen with the brown egg gene to a roo with the blue egg gene, would you get offspring that lay green or olive eggs?

 

[Mahonri]

I think the best "Olive" eggers come from a cross of a Blue Egg roo X Maran hen.

Green can come in any number of ways., but usually best I believe if the roo comes from a blue egg and hen brown egg.

 

[technodoll]

Oh! Good to know, wooo!

So I could, in theory, let my EE roo mate with my brown-egg layers (sexlinks) to possibly get pale olive egg layers??

I don't have any marans or other dark brown egg layers... crossing fingers this could work?

 

[doubled]

soak em in a little green food coloring and vinegar and all your eggs will be green...