Parentage and egg color?

[Aamanda]

Im just wondering if the rooster or the hen dictates the color of the egg offspring will lay?
I have a RIR (hatchery) over Easter egger pullet and was wondering if there was any way I could know what color eggs I will get lol.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

For the most part, the MANY genes that determine egg colour are autosomal. There are a few that are sex-linked, but with so many genes, that really plays a minor role.

Brown eggs are created by a wash of brown pigment overlaying a white eggshell. Blue eggs have a blue eggshell, not a white one. Brown wash plus blue eggshell = green eggs.

Now that is for the OFFSPRING of the pair you mentioned. The rooster has NO bearing over the colour of eggs laid by a hen/pullet he did not father; only HER parents determine that.

 

[donrae]

For the most part, the MANY genes that determine egg colour are autosomal. There are a few that are sex-linked, but with so many genes, that really plays a minor role.

Brown eggs are created by a wash of brown pigment overlaying a white eggshell. Blue eggs have a blue eggshell, not a white one. Brown wash plus blue eggshell = green eggs.

Now that is for the OFFSPRING of the pair you mentioned. The rooster has NO bearing over the colour of eggs laid by a hen/pullet he did not father; only HER parents determine that.

Exactly. If your EE lays blue eggs, you'll get green eggs from her offspring. If she lays green eggs, you'll have some offspring that lay brown eggs and some that lay a muddy green.

 

[Aamanda]

Exactly. If your EE lays blue eggs, you'll get green eggs from her offspring. If she lays green eggs, you'll have some offspring that lay brown eggs and some that lay a muddy green.

Ok. The mother laid a kinda teal green egg. So if I understand correctly the pullet from them will lay a teal egg with a brown wash or a brown egg? And thank you both for your answers!