Looks like a Delaware, but lays blue eggs

[JessicaRay]

I got hatching eggs from the auction last year. I can't remember the breed....I think some were cream legbar. But I hatched them out and now I have two birds (a rooster and a hen) that look like a Delaware. However, the hen lays light blue eggs. Please help me, "What breed do I have?" Thanks

 

[TheOddOneOut]

pics?

 

[JedJackson]

Probably Legbar crosses.

 

[JessicaRay]

pics?

 

[JessicaRay]

 

[TheOddOneOut]

EE mutts

 

[NatJ]

I got hatching eggs from the auction last year. I can't remember the breed....I think some were cream legbar. But I hatched them out and now I have two birds (a rooster and a hen) that look like a Delaware. However, the hen lays light blue eggs. Please help me, "What breed do I have?" Thanks

They do not match any pure breed that I know of.

Since the hen lays blue eggs, that would make them Easter Eggers (a term for any chicken that lays blue or green eggs but does not belong to a specific breed.)

 

[JessicaRay]

Ok thanks. If I breed this rooster with a sapphire gem hen, will I get more green egg layers? Thanks

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

They do not match any pure breed that I know of.

Since the hen lays blue eggs, that would make them Easter Eggers (a term for any chicken that lays blue or green eggs but does not belong to a specific breed.)

I agree. With the very lightly feathered legs and columbian color with yellow skin I would assume they're part Light Brahma and part blue egg layer.

 

[NatJ]

If I breed this rooster with a sapphire gem hen, will I get more green egg layers?

Maybe.

If you bred the hen (lays blue eggs) to a rooster of a brown egg breed, you would definitely get some daughters that lay green eggs.

But with a rooster, you cannot tell whether he has the same egg color genes as the look-alike hen.

If the rooster does have the gene for blue eggs, then yes breeding him to a Sapphire Gem hen would produce some daughters that lay green eggs. (You might also get some that lay brown eggs, depending on whether the rooster is pure for the blue egg gene, or whether he also has the not-blue-egg gene.)

There are only two ways to find out for sure whether the rooster has the genes for blue eggs: raise daughters from him and look at their eggs, or pay for a genetic test.