Rooster genes

[Hillschicks]

How big of a roll does the rooster play in what type of eggs a chick will lay?? For example if we mixed a welsummer roo with a barred rock or something with a light brown egg... Would the resulting pullets get their egg from their mother or would the father throw his tarra cotta eggness into the mix leaving it a roll of the dice for the chicks??

 

[draye]

How big of a roll does the rooster play in what type of eggs a chick will lay?? For example if we mixed a welsummer roo with a barred rock or something with a light brown egg... Would the resulting pullets get their egg from their mother or would the father throw his tarra cotta eggness into the mix leaving it a roll of the dice for the chicks??

I think that it would be somewhere in between the colors. Although, sometimes they can take more after one side than the other.

I like my Easter Eggers so when I keep a rooster I try to make sure that he come from a green/blue eggs. So that I have a better chance of the offspring laying a colored egg.


Here's one of my current roosters:

Cannot be be positively positive but I think that this one came from a brown egg (Naked Neck hen) covered by a Easter Egger rooster (he being from a green colored egg).

 

[Hillschicks]

Mkay, so basically its a roll of the dice, but adding a welsummer rooster to my flock will help vary egg color in future generations... Good deal