Thanks, I'm not interested in hatching but would still like to understand how it works. So a roo will be a carrier for the color egg he came from??I believe the for egg color is carried in the Roo's DNA. I have quite a few EE that came from my Araucana and Easter Eggers, I bought from McMurray's about 7 years ago. I do not have any of the original flock, but free ranging, the girls are always showing up with a few chicks following them, every summer and also while gathering eggs, when a really pretty color jumbo size egg is gathered, I can't resist putting a few in the bator, to be tutor chicks to give away with the turkey poults. There are a few who are left over. You all know how chicken math works! The blues range from powder blue to peacock blue, the greens from drab to light emerald and the teals are every shade between. I have gotten some gray and quite a few shades of pink, but never the yellow some claim to get. If you get an Arucana roo, you should get mostly blues EE, using a white egg laying hen and green using a brown egg laying hen, in the next generation of layers. Easter egger, Olive Eggers and Ameraucana are all the same mutts that have been crossed with blue egg laying Arucana Roo. Brown egg layers will pop out when you try to cross 2 of these mutts. I hope this helps clear things up a little?
