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[ChickenCanoe]

Quick question about genetics if anyone knows.

I have Olive Egger hens who have laid beautiful olive eggs. But lately they’ve been more blueish but not the good kind of blue.

Even though they’ve laid olive in the past the ones I had when I chose to incubate are light in color. Will the pullets hatched out of those eggs lay that dull color or will they lay olive like the original color the hens used to lay? (I mean besides the whole it depends on the rooster too)

They should lay similar to what the moms laid, if the roosters were of the same genetics. What kind of eggs did the roosters come out of?
The vibrant pigments can diminish through the laying season. It doesn't matter so much what the current egg color is but what genetics the hen is able to produce. That said, I always hatch from my darkest eggs because let's say a hen that regularly lays a brightly colored egg but one day, she just doesn't have the pigment available in the uterus. If she lays a less than ideal egg that day, the embryo will still have her genetics (and the rooster's genes) so that resulting pullet will still have the capacity to lay desirable eggs. That particular egg's shell color shouldn't be a disqualifier. It is just often hard to identify which egg in a large flock comes from a specific hen.
Does that make sense?
I'm working on automation to identify an egg to a specific hen that will work on a massive scale.

 

[muddy75]

Ah okay! Sorry.

One of my brother’s birthdays is in December too!!! I just realized he’s going to be 25 this year..... I feel old af now

I was thinking he was closer to your son’s age.

My brother is going to be 29 in December My nephew will be 27 in January and my DS will be 25 in December

 

[ChickenCanoe]

399 posts in the last hour.

Ouch. That will skew the math.

 

[CrazyCrttr75]

Oh whoops....

Wait... who only has one then??? Maybe she only talks about one????

Who’s the one with the army one????

I missed this post. My son is the only one that lives at home for now. He will be leaving for Navy bootcamp June 9th. Well, technically June 10th but we drop him off at the hotel where he will be leaving from on the 9th.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I didn’t know this but it’s amazing to me how much influence companies have in politics. It’s not just Tyson. It’s a lot of them. And lobbyists and such. It shouldn’t be that way.

That's why we need to get the money out of politics.
It isn't fair.

 

[Kiki]

Oh boy!!! That doesn’t sound fun!!! Do you guys get tornadoes a lot?

No...never.

 

[Kiki]

I jut realized my byc emojis are working on my phone now!!!! When did that get fixed???

 

[CrazyCrttr75]

My brother is going to be 29 in December My nephew will be 27 in January and my DS will be 25 in December

Sounds like a familial situation like mine! I was an Aunt when I turned 2 lol.

 

[R2elk]

No...never.

Just hurry canes.

 

[Kiki]

My brother is going to be 29 in December My nephew will be 27 in January and my DS will be 25 in December

I will be 26.