It is my understanding that an EE is a mixed breed with blue genetic material in one of the parents. If you mix a blue gened male with a brown egg laying female you will get olive colored eggs. Now somewhere someone talked about how to make an EE....but I can't remember exactly what they said. I always wondered what the offspring would lay if you mixed a brown egg laying breed roo with a blue egg laying breed female. If you would get the same olive egg or if you would get teal or aqua or green?When did you get your EE from me? Do you have a pic? Now I have a question too. I've a Lav Amer roo. If I keep the Del and BR hen with him I will get EE's? I just ask because I have some hens from him and my EE's that are laying now. BUT I also have a blue girl that lays blue eggs but not as big as I'd like. I do have one EE hen that lays a nice 2oz. or more sized egg and that's what I'm going for.
I also have a EE/Amer hen with the Dels and she doesn't lay as well/often as her mother does.
I will say that my blue and green laying hens do not lay as large an egg as my production (something or other) nor my Olive Egger (who regularly lays an XL egg) When I weigh them they are just at the tippy most low end of large to the tippy top edge of medium. (not a weight scale, but a tippy kind. Not my choice, a Christmas gift)
Wait, Olive Eggers have a Marans as a Momma and an Ameruacana as a Daddy....other colors of green come from lighter brown egg laying mommas
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