olive eggs?

[Big_Red]

i have americana roosters and rhode island, orpington, plymouth rock hens. will crossing them make olive eggs?

 

[millersdawn616]

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yes. americanas blue laying gene is dominint and being crossed with a brown egg layer will give you olive or green eggs from the offspring that hatch from your hens eggs. your current hens eggs wont change colors tho.

 

[jarcoo0153]

You might Have to breed the F1's back to a brown egg layer to get them darker. I'm not sure though!

 

[LAseramas KP]

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you have to breed your amercuana rooster to a maran hen and the pullets from that with give you the olive eggs hope that helps

 

[Illia]

No, it will not create true Olive colored eggs. You'll just get Easter Eggers with green eggs. True olive egg layers come from dark brown layers, not normal brown.

 

[Big_Red]

so say i use maran x americauna does it matter which is the hen and which is the rooster?

 

[boykin2010]

nope

 

[TNBarnQueen]

OK...how bout an Americana x Wellsummer/EE roo?? This gives 2 blue genes and one dark brown