Mystery egg color

[Pugator]

Hi, I have Silkie chickens here and one chick that is a mix of Ameraucana × blue hybrid (this chick hatched from my own eggs).


All of the chickens are 5 months old.





I have some small EU Silkies, and one Silkie that, according to the breeder, probably got mixed with larger Silkies and a color mix chick came out of it





This morning I went to collect eggs and I really didn’t understand what I had found. The egg is light grey-blue (it reminds me of the color of my Araucana eggs, but those hens are kept separately).





I’m sending a photo of the Ameraucana cross, which has seemed like a rooster to me from the beginning, also judging by the comb.


Am I crazy, or could this egg have been laid by a Silkie hen? (I have two or three Silkie hens there.)


But Silkies don’t lay colored eggs, and my cross looks like a rooster.


It’s a mystery to me.

 

[theoldchick]

I believe that is a pullet. Neat colored egg.

 

[Yardmom]

Your splash is a pullet.

 

[Pugator]

I believe that is a pullet. Neat colored egg.

Thank you very much for the reply. I hope it’s true. It’s my favorite chicken.

 

[Pugator]

Your splash is a pullet.

The larger comb confused me. When I had Ameraucana chicks last year, the cockerels had a similarly larger comb, but it’s true that this chicken is not purebred

 

[Pugator]

I believe that is a pullet. Neat colored egg.

The egg is actually more of a greyish-blue color. It’s quite difficult to capture it accurately in photos. Thank you very much

 

[AinaWGSD]

At 5 months old young should be seeing obvious pointed saddle feathers if it were a male. The splash ameraucana mix is definitely a pullet and the layer of the blue-grey egg.

Being heterozygous (only 1 copy of the gene) for pea comb can certainly result in a larger comb.

Lady Amalthea is a sapphire jewel, one of the many hatchery colored layer hybrids. They are consistently white with a few spots of black or blue (single copy of dominant white), muffs and beards, and prolific layers of large light blue eggs. Meyer doesn't say what breeds are in the mix, but I'm 99% sure its a F1 white leghorn/ameraucana mix. Which would make this a "modified" pea comb. The floppy leghorn comb, but smaller because of the pea comb genetics.

 

[Pugator]

At 5 months old young should be seeing obvious pointed saddle feathers if it were a male. The splash ameraucana mix is definitely a pullet and the layer of the blue-grey egg.

Being heterozygous (only 1 copy of the gene) for pea comb can certainly result in a larger comb.View attachment 4266565View attachment 4266566
Lady Amalthea is a sapphire jewel, one of the many hatchery colored layer hybrids. They are consistently white with a few spots of black or blue (single copy of dominant white), muffs and beards, and prolific layers of large light blue eggs. Meyer doesn't say what breeds are in the mix, but I'm 99% sure its a F1 white leghorn/ameraucana mix. Which would make this a "modified" pea comb. The floppy leghorn comb, but smaller because of the pea comb genetics.

Thank you so, so much for such a great explanation! I will take a closer look at chicken genetics and try to study everything properly. Btw your hen is absolutely beautiful