Olive Egger?

[jladdy]

Hi everyone!
I have two Olive Eggers chicks. They were bred from a Black Copper Marans with an Aracauna. One is a pullet and one a cockerel. I am debating on keeping the little cockerel. Is a mixed breed rooster of any use (this would be my first rooster). Will I just get major ugly mutts with my buff orpingtons, red stars, RIR, Aracaunas and a golden lace Wyandotte? Thanks for your help

 

[Basil Gray]

you could use this website that can give you an idea of what colours you could get (I love this website and have been using it for my project for ag school and chicken genetics)
Also everyone has a different definition of ugly (personally I think show girls go in the ugly category, but that's just my opinion)
http://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html
as for egg colour blue is surprisingly a dominate trait (aracauna trait) but when crossed with brown egg layers you get mostly green shelled eggs. With punnet squares my guess of breeding the two olive eggers together you could get brown egg layers, more olive, maybe blue. (that's if you really cared)