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They will lay green or brown.
There's two genes for the actual shell color white or blue. Blue is dominate so a hen can have one gene for white and one gene for blue and will lay blue eggs.
Of course brown plus white equals brown and brown plus blue equals green.
If your hens carry two genes for blue all eggs will be green.
If they carry one blue gene and one white gene about half the offspring will lay green but about half will lay brown. Because she has a 50% chance of passing the white gene forward and a 50% chance of passing the blue.
Just to be technical there really isn't a "white" egg gene its a non blue egg gene but saying white just makes it easier to explain.
Fascinating! Thanks again for all this great info. This is my first time crossing and hatching and love genetics.