Leg color question

[ThiefPouter06]

I just purchased an EE that is buff, muffed, white legged and single combed(light brown"pink" egg). She looks just like a muffed BO. How does white leg color rank against the others? For example, could this hen be half BO and EE? or are white legs recessive to the others?

 

[Krys109uk]

Leg colour is determined by a few factors. The gene at the e-locus. Locus being a particular position on a chromosome; the presence of a gene called inhibitor of dermal melanin or its allele (alternative gene for the locus) & the gene for white skin & its allele which allows yellow skin.

Really, as far as I can gather, EEis a term used frequently by commercial hatcheries to describe a bird which can be just about anything but probably has a blue egg laying breed somewhere in its ancestry. EEs are by no means a real breed. They are a description.