Is this an ameraucana??

[pips&peeps]

I purchased a bird from a top breeder that ended up laying a brown egg. I informed the breeder and they were very apologetic and made things right with me. I put it in the laying pen.

poo poo happens.......


ETA: I don't think the OP's bird has a single comb, I think it is a very poor pea comb.

 

[McSpin]

I guess I still have a couple questions.

If the blue egg gene and the pea comb are linked, why am I getting so many pink eggs from pea comb hens? The combs are good pea combs.

If pink eggs don't exist, why are my pink eggs solid colored all the way through the shell? It isn't just pigment on the outside. It can't be scratched off and is clearly throughout the full thickness of the shell. This also holds true for the blue and green eggs they are producing.

 

[pips&peeps]

That is really weird! Because I know all the greener eggs I have, you can scratch the brown coat from them and they are bluer on the inside. And from my brown egg layers you can do the same and the inside of the shell is almost white, it may be a little tinted but for the most part white.

Maybe that is something we should ask Tim A about, he is more of an expert on those things.

Maybe you have discovered another egg color gene.............

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Hope this isn't too much against the rules, but you will get a lot of very good genetic information at Classroom at the Coop; also there is a TON of stuff in their archives about egg colouring.

 

[pips&peeps]

Steve,

Where they wheaten and blue wheaten birds? Mine were.......

 

[McSpin]

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Thanks, I'll check it out.

 

[McSpin]

pips&peeps :

That is really weird! Because I know all the greener eggs I have, you can scratch the brown coat from them and they are bluer on the inside. And from my brown egg layers you can do the same and the inside of the shell is almost white, it may be a little tinted but for the most part white.

I've read this many times and my brown eggs layers have a distinctly lighter inside. As soon as I broke my first pink egg from this line, I immediately noticed it didn't look like I expected. The green eggs look to be a mixing of the blue and pink. I only have a dozen hens from this particular mating, but it's worked out to be 25% blue, 25% pink and 50% green. It seems to follow Medelian principle for independent assortment. If so, it should be relatively easy to figure this all out. Of course, the number isn't large enough to draw any conclusions from, but I would expect others to have seen this before.

Where they wheaten and blue wheaten birds? Mine were.......

No, these are blue, black, splash.​

 

[Tailfeathers]

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I would agree with all the above except for "so this is something that can be expected from time to time". That would all be dependent on the variety and the lineage I suppose. I do not know of any WBS Ameraucanas that are throwing anything but a blue egg. I do understand from reading the Forum at the ABC that there are still some varieties that are not consistently producing a blue egg. The Buff in particular. I have not had this problem show up but if I did all of a sudden have some offspring that started throwing something other than blue eggs, I'd cull them in a heartbeat. I don't care how good they otherwise looked and I wouldn't even think about breeding them.

As for the "pink gene" question, from everything I have read there is no such thing. The "pink" is a color given off from a combination of the blue and brown. I once had a pastel purplish egg from an EE. I think it works something like mixing, what is it, blue and yellow to get green?

God Bless,

 

[Tailfeathers]

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I don't understand. What re you saying "Nope" to? I thought a SC is pprr? Which would be recessive? From what I've read there are only two types of comb genes - pea and rose. All other comb types come from variations of those two genes. Am I missing something?

God Bless,

 

[abelseville]

Yoohoo! OP here. wow, turn your back for a minute...... OK I have an EE with a poor pea comb. Thinking maybe I won't breed him? Where do I go or what book should I read to get some basic knowledge of genetics? I don't understand most of the terms y'all are using but I'd like to learn....Thanks for all the info!