Olive Eggers

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Varying expressions of blue with modifiers may appear almost green.

So technically if birds with this blue modified gene were bred together would their offspring lay the same color as the mom?

 

[sourland]

Not necessarily. There appears to be a range of color expression. It all depends upon how much 'paint' the reproductive tract applies and can vary within a given bird. The 'blue' of a hens eggs early in the laying cycle is generally far more intense than later in the laying cycle.

 

[mistycolleen]

This is so interesting! Definently not something I thought I'd be trying to learn.

 

[bunsmac]

I got all my olive eggers.My Silver Back Americana rooster mated with all my hens .One hen hatched the chicks. 7 hens 5 roosters hatched by an andulsion.My Welsummer mix produced a very dark olive color.My ancona chicks were had the spots ,they eventually turned black. Mom layed a white egg.One lays a bluish green egg the other pale green.My 2 Brahma mix chicks lay olive colored eggs..One thing they all have in common..The bushy face..