Olive Egger Genetics

[SCMommaHen]

I hatched 2 olive eggs 25 weeks ago. The breeder said they were from an F2 and birchen miran. One ended up looking like an Ameraucana and lays beautiful olive eggs. The other looks 100% welsummer and just started laying brown speckled eggs. I'm guessing she was experimenting with F2 and welsummer. I was hoping I would get speckled olive eggs. Oh well. Can someone explain the genetics here and is it possible to come up with a speckled olive egg?

 

[CrazyCochin]

I am not reliable at all with genetics, but I do know some members that are top notch! @JacinLarkwell, @MysteryChicken?

 

[MysteryChicken]

I am not reliable at all with genetics, but I do know some members that are top notch! @JacinLarkwell, @MysteryChicken?

I'm still learning the whole egg color genetics, so I'm not totally helpful with this.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I have a couple egg color charts I saved, that maybe alittle bit helpful.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

An olive egger has one gene for blue and one for brown. Each daughter gets one of those from her and a gene from dad too

 

[SCMommaHen]

Thanks all. I found my answers on this page... https://cluckin.net/olive-eggers-and-green-egg-laying-chickens.html