pink egg laying EE?

[warhorse]

If an EE reliably lays a pink egg, is there any way to try to replicate that in offspring? Is there anyone who "breeds and sells" pink egg laying EE?

 

[Tailfeathers]

No. When breeding EE's you are rolling the dice as to what kind of egg you will get from their progeny.

God Bless,

 

[rancher hicks]

when you got EE's do they lay the same color egg everytime or does it go blue, green, blue, pink, ?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

A hen always lays the same colour of egg--it will get lighter in shade as she progresses through a laying cycle, but after a broody spell or molt it will start as dark as it ever was.

 

[rancher hicks]

oh yeah if you breed a blue laying EE w/ Ro from a Blue laying EE do you get a blue laying EE. What about a Ro from a blue egg does that have any bearing on progeny. Anybody tried just hatching chicks from one color egg and crossing those w/ others hatched from the same color egg.

 

[rancher hicks]

Why hasn't anyone answered my question?

 

[enola]

I may be wrong, but I think a "pink" egg is simply a light brown egg, it is all in the tint/shade of the egg.

If you breed a rooster that came from a blue egg to a hen that lays blue eggs, you "should" get blue eggs from the resulting pullet.

If I am not right, some one please correct me.....

 

[ThiefPouter06]

I was looking at my pink EE egg and I wonder if "pink" is a hen carrying one gene of brown, therefore making a lighter brown egg.

 

[Huny]

I thought you could get pink from certain production reds "Cherry Eggers". I thought all the EE were blues/greens and maybe a lavender.

 

[enola]

Cherry eggers are just a RIR/Leghorn cross, and they lay a light brown egg. That is where the nick name cherry egger comes from.