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[Henicillin]

I have some EE hens that are on the small side but they do fine. Father is a Lav Amer mother is EE of some mix. Chicks usually come out black but a few are lavender. Which is what I am hoping for. All the new ones have Black though one I'm not sure. It has some white or gold. That blasted CR rooster has been messing around.

Harry Potter is from one of the eggs I got from you at Tab's last year. His daddy must be the messing-around CR roo.

 

[cracrzy4chicks]

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[Tough Old Bird]

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Harry Potter is from one of the eggs I got from you at Tab's last year. His daddy must be the messing-around CR roo.

He is absolutely GORGEOUS. Love his coloring!!!!


TOB

 

[Cass]

If you put a blue gened roo over a brown egg layer you will get olive/green eggs. Pretty sure that's how the breeder made my olive egger.

I just put an Ameruacana roo over my Olive Egger and am hoping it is a hen. I will keep it and see what color egg I get. I am hoping for teal, but will take any color that isn't brown or white.

Since any color other than white or brown is considered an "EE" , I would imagine that it wouldn't be that hard to breed Easter Egger....Just take any roo and put it over anything that lays eggs not the same color as the rooster hatched from. (won't always yield a colored egg because of recessive genes, but will always yield a mutt that will lay like crazy, in my experience)

 

[brahmapapa]

The only name I know it by is the Springville auction. It's on rt 39 near the fire hall. They have parking at the fireball and its a short walk from the fireball to the auction. Big red barn on the hill. Can't miss it

thanks

 

[Breella]

I snapped this and had to share it with you guys. I'm pretty sure Belle is going to be Beast, the comb is starting to get pink. Was supposed to be a bantam cochin but has grown bigger than all the other 6 week olds.

 

[JLaw]

Ok found the posts that I was looking for that broke it down for ee's and genes some.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/251383/will-an-ee-and-rir-or-red-star-cross-produce-green-eggs

And if you need help understanding some of the words he used here is Wikipedia link explaining homozygous and heterozygous. I know I had to google them and find the link lol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygosity

the guy has an ee rooster and trying to get green by breeding it with brown egg layers. here are two reply's from momo.

Well, it depends on whether the EE is homozygous or heterozygous for the blue egg gene. There are two base eggshell colour genes in chickens - blue and white - and blue is dominant over white. It doesn't matter whether the EE parent is male or female. If the EE is homozygous then each offspring will be heterozygous for blue, so the underlying shell of the egg will be blue, and if they inherit a brown egg tint from the other parent (a near certainty in your case), then the eggs will be green.

If the EE is heterozygous then only 50% of the offspring will have the blue egg gene (giving green) and 50% will have the white egg gene (giving brown because of the brown tint on top).

Oh, and don't forget that your EE could be homozygous for the white eggshell gene because not all EEs carry the blue gene, in which none of the progeny will lay green.

My EE roo is almost certainly homozygous because I raised a bunch of his chicks from BSL hens and all of them lay some shade of green or khaki eggs.

Clear as mud?

then someone else wrote saying they're ee's lay blue-green then crossed those with a rir and now have a pink egg laying hens and here is mono's response to that.

"It doesn't matter which parent is which: each chicken gets one eggshell-colour gene from each parent. In your case, ams3651, I'd say your EE hens are clearly heterozygous for the blue eggshell gene and it happens that their progeny didn't inherit it. (Each chick will have a 50% chance of inheriting that gene.) A pink egg is technically a white egg with a small amount of brownish tint (makes it look pink)."

 

[Gramma Chick]

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Anywhere ! they grow like weeds ...

 

[Glasshen]

Chives do grow anywhere, and if you want them to stay where you planted them don't let them go to seed. The flowers can be eaten, or used as garnish...

 

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