Olive Egger Breeding

[proudduckowner22]

Hi, I got F1 olive egger roosters, whose parents are black copper maran and legbar. Was wondering if I bred the roosters to my Lohmann brown hens who lay a nice brown egg, or my buff orpington hens, will I get the green eggs that a olive egger should lay? Thanks!

 

[EggSighted4Life]

will I get the green eggs that a olive egger should lay?

Hi there, welcome to BYC!

Doubtful.. Some basic charts for ideas.. the second set on the first chart is basically what you MAY be looking at.

https://storybookfarmwv.com/farm/easter-eggers-and-olive-eggers/

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Possibly. The male's (and females) have 2 egg color genes in the most basic sense. With olive eggers, that means 1 blue gene and 1 dark brown gene. It's random when breeding which gene is passed down. So you would theoretically get some olive layers, but also some brown layers depending on if they get the brown or blue gene from dad