She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

[Pipe Dreaming]

I can't say what their parentage is.. I might be able to find out. They're both crested with copper necks. The lady told me they were F3 OE's. If I had to guess.. maybe they're crested cream legbars crossed back to BCM's a couple times. But that's a stab in the dark.
They both look like this

This hen here is the one that layed the speckled brown egg. Her sibling is laying an olive egg.

 

[FridayYet]

Pretty hen! You are probably right, Cream Legbar and BCM.

The further you get away from the true blue parent, your chance of keeping a blue egg gene drops and your chances of getting a brown egg layer goes up.

I have some 1/2 Legbar, 1/2 Orloff growing out. Any girls should lay green eggs since they will have inherited one copy of the blue egg gene from their Legbar mom. If I pair them with a BCM to darken the green, only half of their offspring will inherit a blue egg gene, and half won't.

Once it's gone, all you can do is mate the brown layer to a true blue layer and then the resulting chicks should lay green.

 

[Pipe Dreaming]

That makes sense. My hope one day is to get some pure wheaton ameraucanas. I'm waiting until I find some really nice ones. I found an old ad on here and messaged the memeber, but they're not selling anymore. They were the prettiest blue eggs.. and if I ever wanted to hatch a few OE's, I could just cross them with one of my roosters. My wish list for birds never ends..

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Pretty hen! You are probably right, Cream Legbar and BCM.

The further you get away from the true blue parent, your chance of keeping a blue egg gene drops and your chances of getting a brown egg layer goes up.

I have some 1/2 Legbar, 1/2 Orloff growing out. Any girls should lay green eggs since they will have inherited one copy of the blue egg gene from their Legbar mom. If I pair them with a BCM to darken the green, only half of their offspring will inherit a blue egg gene, and half won't.

Once it's gone, all you can do is mate the brown layer to a true blue layer and then the resulting chicks should lay green.

I have an nn/ee that lays good green eggs. She's brown with a big old bowtie. When I did my pullet hatch I hatched 4 of her eggs. All hatched nn, one looks exactly like her. The other three were white and two were roos that went to my nephew. The white offspring lays a light brown egg and the one that looks just like her momma lays a beautiful even darker greener egg. My father loves those the best because he says they have huge dark yolks. I wouldn't mind a couple more green egg layers and a couple dark brown to round out my bouquet.

 

[Pipe Dreaming]

Amy, I if you're interested, I could send you some eggs. I've never shipped, but I'd be good practice for me.

 

[FridayYet]

It's really fun having different colors. Hoping to get some more BCM and some F1 OE's in a month or so. I'll be hatching some Barnevelders for someone locally, and she'll give me some Barnie eggs in payment if I want.

I just don't have any pure while eggs layers. Might pick up an Ancona if I see one in a feed store this spring.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Amy, I if you're interested, I could send you some eggs. I've never shipped, but I'd be good practice for me.

Thanks for the offer.

I actually am at my limit for the moment.....lol I have to put up a 3rd small coop for my silkie hatchers if I have a good hatch, (it'll be my first attempt with shipped eggs, so little nervous.) I will probably downsize the big coop though and cut the ones I am not really ecstatic over so I can get more of what I want, just waiting to see if egg sales pick up this spring first. I want to add more spitzhauben hens too so that I can breed and sell pure spitz and silkies and have my mixes for eating eggs and my enjoyment....lol

 

[Pipe Dreaming]

I'm picking up 8 leghorn chicks soon. She's setting the same time as me. Never had white egg layers before. I want that rainbow basket

 

[AmyLynn2374]

It's really fun having different colors. Hoping to get some more BCM and some F1 OE's in a month or so. I'll be hatching some Barnevelders for someone locally, and she'll give me some Barnie eggs in payment if I want.

I just don't have any pure while eggs layers. Might pick up an Ancona if I see one in a feed store this spring.

My Spitz lays white, but they aren't overly large, and I believe my Raven, which is austrolorp mix, is the other one laying white. I like the BCM eggs, but I find the hens, themselves rather dull. The roos are pretty though.

 

[FridayYet]

My Spitz lays white, but they aren't overly large, and I believe my Raven, which is austrolorp mix, is the other one laying white. I like the BCM eggs, but I find the hens, themselves rather dull. The roos are pretty though.

Dull as in personality or as in color? Mine had nice orange hackles as a juvie, but now is almost solid black.