Leghorn / Ameraucana cross?

[browning6]

My money is on her being an EE. Watch for the pretty blue or green egg and you will know.

 

[donrae]

My (brown) leghorn/ee crosses have part straight combs, I'll have to get a picture, they're pretty funky. They also have white earlobes--not as huge as a leghorn's, but white, and yellow legs. I don't have a huge pool to draw from and say all leghorn/ee crosses will have this, but I'm just not seeing anything in her that's leghorn. Mine are also colored pretty much like a brown leghorn.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

My money is on her being an EE. Watch for the pretty blue or green egg and you will know.

EEs can lay other colors of eggs. I have an EE that lays a brown egg, but she is an EE, strait from the hatchery, and no there was not a mixup.

 

[ChickPooh]

Not a white leghorn, but either a brown or a silver one.

Why would a leghorn cross lay blue eggs, since leghorns lay white eggs and EEs lay green eggs? Don't know much about egg colors...

 

[ChickPooh]

If she was a white Leghorn cross, she'd be white. I suppose she could be a brown Leghorn cross. When she starts to lay eggs, a Leghorn cross would most likely lay blue eggs, so that's one way to find out. Leghorn cross or not, her "breed" would be considered EE--and her weird feathers are from moulting, as stated above.

Not a white leghorn, but either a brown or a silver one.

Why would a leghorn cross lay blue eggs, since leghorns lay white eggs and EEs lay green eggs? Don't know much about egg colors...

 

[donrae]

Not a white leghorn, but either a brown or a silver one.

Why would a leghorn cross lay blue eggs, since leghorns lay white eggs and EEs lay green eggs? Don't know much about egg colors...

Easter eggers also lay blue eggs. An ee/leghorn cross would lay either, depending on what genes the ee parent carried.

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

Not a white leghorn, but either a brown or a silver one.

Why would a leghorn cross lay blue eggs, since leghorns lay white eggs and EEs lay green eggs? Don't know much about egg colors...

The blue egg gene is dominant over the white egg gene. A Leghorn/EE cross would lay blue eggs IF she got a blue egg gene from the EE but didn't receive any brown coating genes. Also, not all EEs lay green eggs. Some do indeed lay blue eggs, prettier than an Ameraucana.

I guess I was thinking of her being a brown leghorn/Ameraucana cross (instead of a Leghorn/EE cross), which would indeed lay blue eggs. She'd have a white egg gene from the Leghorn and a blue egg gene from the Ameraucana, but no brown coating genes because neither breed carries those.

Here's a good, simple explanation. Check out post #4. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/815604/egg-color-genetics

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Not a white leghorn, but either a brown or a silver one.

Why would a leghorn cross lay blue eggs, since leghorns lay white eggs and EEs lay green eggs? Don't know much about egg colors...

like stated above the blue egg gene is dominant over the white egg gene. People put Ameraucana rooster over leghorn hens to get super blue egg layers. Not only are they good layers (getting the from the leghorns) but they are lay pretty blue eggs (getting that from the ameraucana).