It came out of a blue egg....

[Camelot Farms]

so why isnt it laying blue eggs?

I hatched her, so i know that she cqme out of a blue egg but she started laying this week and her eggs are brown....

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

The roo is from a brown egg!!

 

[nicalandia]

because one of her parents(mom) was Heterozygous for the blue egg shell gene(O) and had only one copy, and the other parent(dad) was homozygous(pair) of the Browng egg gene(genes but you will get the idea) so her chances of laying blue/green eggs where only 25% but she didn´t make it

so its like this: the hen was O/o and the Male was o/o the odds were againts her...

 

[Camelot Farms]

Fiddlesticks! lol

 

[becky3086]

I have 3 bantam EE's that don't lay blue eggs either. All of my first bantam EE hens. Luckily I hatched another batch and some real ameraucana(2 hens) so when that batch starts laying(should be soon!), I should see my blue eggs.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! You hatched her from a blue egg, but did you breed her? Who was the rooster in the mating? That might explain why she lays a brown egg.
Almost all, but not 100%, of my blue-egger x brown-egger crosses give me blue/green-eggers. Your girl might be one of the few in that small % that just didn't inherit the blue egg gene.
I hope she's cute enough to keep anyway.

Lisa

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

The rooster to which a hen is bred has no bearing on the colour of egg she lays--that depends on the genes carried by her parent as nicalandia explained.

Mom was Oo; Dad was oo. She inherited o from each parent, making her oo.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

The rooster to which a hen is bred has no bearing on the colour of egg she lays

But the rooster in the mating she was hatched from does --- that's what I was asking.

Lisa​

 

[Camelot Farms]

Wow, I had no idea that there were so many factors in play

I dont know what her 'parents' were. lol

Just one of those birds that you end up with and you dont quite remember how

In my limited knowledge, I just thought (hoped) that her 'blue egg' genes would carry over and thats what she would lay.

Thanks all!!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Dipsy, it sounded like you meant her partner rather than her parent, (which surprised me as you usually seem to know this kind of thing--I guess it was poor phrasing--I know I sometimes mean something entirely different than it comes out).

Camelot, asking questions is how we learn--don't be afraid to ask.