Please don't think I'm dumb for asking this...

[Kilgharrah]

Do roasters have anything to do with egg color?

 

[Laodicia]

Do roasters have anything to do with egg color?

Roosters not directly. As in father mother egg you are looking at.

However, as an example. if you have a blue egg layer hen and the roosters breed normally would have a brown shell. Their offspring wont lay blue eggs. Youll get some shade of green.

 

[venymae]

Roosters pass on their egg coloring genes to the next generation, but they won't change a current hens egg color.

 

[Kilgharrah]

thank you both

 

[Pork Pie]

These links may be interesting:

https://scratchcradle.wordpress.com/2012/07/01/gms1-genetics-of-egg-color/

https://scratchcradle.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/gms2-breeding-for-blue-eggs/

https://scratchcradle.wordpress.com/2012/07/15/gms3-breeding-for-other-egg-colors/

 

[Ravynscroft]

Roosters pass on their egg coloring genes to the next generation, but they won't change a current hens egg color.

X2

For breeding forward looking at future offsprings possible egg colors that they will lay, the genes the rooster carries are very important...