"Red" Egg genetics?

[Akane]

You can't get olive without EE, ameraucana, araucana, etc.... You need the blue egg gene. What you will probably get is something light brown. Exact shade unknown. There are far too many brown egg genes to really know which ones you'll end up with. If you throw welsummer in the mix you'll likely get speckled eggs.

These are eggs from the offspring of a welsummer roo and penedesenca x maran hens:

 

[rancher hicks]

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How can you cross anything w/ a hen who hasn't hatced yet?

I do know there are only two real colors of eggs, blue and brown I think or is it white and blue? What colours are combined to get red? Crossing any colour would only give you a different shade of brown, wouldn't it?

According to the colour wheel I just looked at you'd need a yellow and magenta combination to get true red. But then you'd need the colour combination to get magenta and a true yellow. Though a green and blue combinaton would give you yellow. If you could get the genes to line up.

 

[LarryPQ]

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Time traveling chickens, of course.

get olive without EE, ameraucana, araucana, etc.... You need the blue egg gene.

4 of the red-brown eggs from my first post are olive eggers:


From what I understand, if all 4 hatched, and all were hens (in Lala-Land), 2 would lay the reddish egg, and 2 would lay olive-colored eggs.

So, If I took the 2 red-layers, and put them under my pink roo, would the offspring have lighter or darker eggs? Would the "pinkiness" lighten the browns?​

 

[Illia]

Yes, the pink would lighten the brown.

I just wish there was more known on the genetics of the brown in dark egg layers, as they "spray" it on, not have it already set into the eggshell.

 

[LarryPQ]

eeeewww...

 

[Barred Rocks forever]

i wanna do this to !

 

[draye]

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Illia,
You ever get your red egg?

 

[kfacres]

to get a red egg.. personally I would think that a dark brown, red color, with a shot of white to lighten it up... then back to dark brown... would get you close.. maybe a shot or two of pink...

 

[Illia]

Man draye you love to dig up old topics

Yes I do have nice red eggs, and I do find that some dark layers do have redder eggs versus some who have browner tinted eggs, but, I haven't and probably won't bother synthesizing/extracting the gene that makes them redder.

 

[rancher hicks]

I forgot all about this thread. You know Green Fire has a chicken that lays green eggs from the start. There were some posted on "rarebreedsauction" but I didn't bid . I probably should have but have no where to put another breed. YET.