Pea comb crossed with walnut comb and egg color

[desertmarcy]

I crossed Spangled Russian Orloffs with a black and a splash Ameraucana. Thought I was going to get green egg layers. Now I'm learning this may be more complicated. So the pea comb gene (Ameraucana) is linked with the blue egg gene. What color egg will this cross produce? Will it depend on what comb type the offspring have? That is really difficult to determine! The pullets look like they have no comb at all, just a flat area where the comb is. How will the comb type be inherited in this cross? Will it be a mix of walnut and pea, all pea, all walnut? Thanks for any assistance.

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

I'll defer to the experts on this one, but.... I wanna see!!!

 

[pinkchick]

More than likely they will have a mixture of the 2 combs, however, you might have some that have what resemble more of the pea comb and some that resemble more of the walnut comb. I would expect that you won't see this until they are quite a bit older.

 

[nicalandia]

I crossed Spangled Russian Orloffs with a black and a splash Ameraucana. Thought I was going to get green egg layers. Now I'm learning this may be more complicated. So the pea comb gene (Ameraucana) is linked with the blue egg gene. What color egg will this cross produce? Will it depend on what comb type the offspring have? That is really difficult to determine! The pullets look like they have no comb at all, just a flat area where the comb is. How will the comb type be inherited in this cross? Will it be a mix of walnut and pea, all pea, all walnut? Thanks for any assistance.

worry not, if your ameraucanas are pure for the pea comb, all of your hens will lay green eggs and the boys have 50% chance to pas this trait to their doughter

 

[Chris09]

nicalandia,

Since the Orloff breed lays a White egg shouldn't hen offspring lay a Blue egg?

Chris

 

[nicalandia]

nicalandia,

Since the Orloff breed lays a White egg shouldn't hen offspring lay a Blue egg?

Chris

True, I thought they lay brown eggs, he said he wanted green ones

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

I've never seen white eggs from an Orloff. It seems to vary, but mostly in shades of cream/tinted to very light brown.

 

[desertmarcy]

True, I thought they lay brown eggs, he said he wanted green ones

The Orloffs lay a light brown egg, not white. If the cross laid blue, that would be fine with me. I am expecting green, though. I "believe" my Ameraucanas to be pure---I guess time will tell when they start laying!

 

[desertmarcy]

worry not, if your ameraucanas are pure for the pea comb, all of your hens will lay green eggs and the boys have 50% chance to pas this trait to their doughter

That is good to know--I was getting bummed thinking I wasn't going to get the green eggs. OK, on the boys---does their chance of passing the trait on depend on their comb type? Is there any way I would be able to tell which ones might have that trait?

 

[Chris09]

I was thinking off white but I should have said lightly tinted or even cream. I know they wasn't a true brown egg color.

Chris