Mystery Chick from a Blue/Green Egg (UK)

[julibob]

This chick hatched on Easter Sunday . He/She came from a blue egg and the hens are all running with various cocks! Clearly not a Cream Legbar cross. So Araucana or Ameraucana? Any ideas please!

 

[farmerChef]

doesnt looks like it has a crest or a beard, what color chickens do you have? that could help narrow down the breeds.

 

[julibob]

I bought these eggs blind from a smallholding. I only know that it was a blue egg.

 

[farmerChef]

It could possibly be an Isbar or Legbar cross. It has a single comb and doesn't have a (noticable) crest or beard.

 

[GaryDean26]

There are lots of barnyard mixes that lay blue eggs. The mixes will ussually have a pea comb that is dominate to a single comb. A resessive single comb gene could still be present and show up in off spring expecially if the father has a single comb. The chances of the mother passing the single comb gene and blue egg gene together however in a 1 in 20 chance though since the pea comb and the blue egg gene are located so close to each other on the gene map.

I agree that this is not from legbar ancentry since there is no white spot on the head from the barring gene. I don't think Isbars are even avaialbe in the UK, so that would be out too. I would guess the blue gene that the mother had was from an Araucana because like the Isbars I don't think there are Americaunas in the UK.

If this chick is a female is will not likely lay green eggs like its mother.