Thank You shezadandy That helps a lot explaines everything for me. I understand now.
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Thank You shezadandy That helps a lot explaines everything for me. I understand now.
Yep. Me too. I did also order a couple of male chicks. For a rooster, I would also be looking for one that developed a pea comb .... correct?
Using a hen in the SBEL program that lays anything other than a white or blue egg would be counter productive to say the least. The most likely source of the green egg would be a heterozygous rooster (blue/brown) in their program. If the problem lies with a stock rooster harboring a brown gene, there should be reports of green and probably brown (based on the white/near white eggs the SBELs are hatching from) along with blue. It's also possible the egg was mis-marked at the hatchery.
This is first year they're offered, so within the next few months there should be a whole lot of feedback, especially if we're not seeing all blue eggs.
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Above are the photos of her eggs. Two eggs from two different days. The second image is one of her first attempts last week and it's a little oblong. I do have to say she's not a large bird by any means but the eggs are decent size for a beginner. Her male counterpart on the other hand is HUGE. He's one mighty fine rooster. Big, tall, meaty looking. So is my SCEL cockerel. They all hatched at the same time.
Thank you so much for posting the egg pictures. It is a very nice shade of green, and at 18 weeks!!
Above are the photos of her eggs. Two eggs from two different days. The second image is one of her first attempts last week and it's a little oblong. I do have to say she's not a large bird by any means but the eggs are decent size for a beginner. Her male counterpart on the other hand is HUGE. He's one mighty fine rooster. Big, tall, meaty looking. So is my SCEL cockerel. They all hatched at the same time.
Do you have pictures? I love that she is so talkative.My SBEL pullet in the above picture started laying last week. She lays every other day...a green egg!!! I thought she'd lay blue eggs, but I'm fine with green too! She's very loud and talkative now as well. Comparable to my light brown leghorn in talk-a-tiveness. If I'm near the coop she'll tell me stories until I leave.
I bought several of the SBELs and to be honest, I would be very upset if they laid green eggs. These were very expensive birds.
Alex, if I can ask ... it appears that the SBELs are a first generation then? So, if you had a SBEL rooster and allowed it to breed with the hens and try to hatch the resulting eggs ... your chances of getting hens that also lay blue eggs would not be very good then? Would the eggs be a mix of white, brown, blue and green?
In the very basic sense of the formula...yes, this is correct. I'm sure you know there are many other factors that play into the results.X2 ... green eggs after paying $24/pullet for SBELs... would be... love green eggs, but the cost of the bird along with those 5-6 months raising her to point of lay is a commitment, and starting over with another chick is another 5-6 months down the road. As I understand egg genetics, a green egg is the result of a blue shell with a brown overlay-- so the blue gene is there- but so is the brown gene, so 50/50 on what the progeny get. Hopefully LilChickens2 is the exception with the green egg.![]()
Alex covered the F1xF1 SBELs a little while ago.
I'm looking for confirmation about the below with crossing on brown, white and green layers, this is what I think I know-- (not distinguishing shades of green):
Homozygous SBEL roo (2 copies of blue)
with a white layer: all would be lighter blue
with a green layer: 1/2 green 1/2 'bluer'
with a homozygous brown layer: all green
with heterozygous (1 copy brown, 1 copy white) brown layer: 1/2 green 1/2 blue
Heterozygous SBEL roo (1 copy blue, 1 copy white)
with a white layer, 1/2 white, 1/2 lighter blue
with a green layer, 1/4 'bluer', 1/4 light blue, 1/2 lighter brown
with a homozygous brown layer: 1/2 green, 1/2 lighter brown
with a heterozygous (1 copy brown, 1 copy white) brown layer: 1/4 green, 1/4 light blue, 1/2 lighter brown
Yep. Me too. I did also order a couple of male chicks. For a rooster, I would also be looking for one that developed a pea comb .... correct?
Above are the photos of her eggs. Two eggs from two different days. The second image is one of her first attempts last week and it's a little oblong. I do have to say she's not a large bird by any means but the eggs are decent size for a beginner. Her male counterpart on the other hand is HUGE. He's one mighty fine rooster. Big, tall, meaty looking. So is my SCEL cockerel. They all hatched at the same time.