Single comb blue/green egg layers?

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

That's interesting!
Might cross her with a Lakenvelder cock if I can find one.
I think those would be interesting chicks!

Lisa
edit: ...Or not so interesting. The calculator says [Lak' x Barred] gives barred males and solid females.

L
edit: ... slaps head and realizes I can get single comb 'blue egger' chicks using my silver Campine cock (I forget I have the Campines sometimes).

L

 

[protodon]

Well let me go one step further here. I do agree that pea combs are not undesirable. I have a backburner mixed flock project and I eventually would like to get them to all have pea combs, better for colder weather with less chance of frost bite. The reason this cross interests me is ever since I found this thing and also discovered Lavender Orpingtons...how amazing would it be to have Lavender Orpingtons that laid green eggs?! It would be amazing to me and I guess that's the most important thing. So soon I'll be hatching some Lavender Orpingtons and some Large Fowl Lavender Ameraucanas. I can't hatch or house anywhere near the numbers I might need to get the right combo but I've also never been one to give up on something before I even tried. What's the good of thinking yourself out of ever trying anything new and what's the bad of raising some extra chickens

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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3% chance from the initial cross, but once the cross has been made, the single comb gene is linked to the blue eggshell gene in that bird and its offspring.

 

[Morgan7782]

So I will be getting a pullet who's mother is 1/2 penedesenca and 1/2 blue ameraucana and the father is a FBCM. If the pullet has a single comb, will she lay the FBCM dark brown eggs if not olive green? Thanks for any help!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

When you start talking about other egg colour genes, it becomes a LOT more complicated as there are a LOT of egg colour genes. The main difference between these and the O gene is that O actually colours the eggshell; the colour is embedded in the shell. The other egg colour genes relate to a coating applied to the outer surface of the shell.

There has been speculation that one or more of these genes actually inhibit pigment rather than altering the hue or tint/shade. Not sure if that would also apply to the colour of the eggshell as well as the coating.

(and you thought plumage genetics was complicated

)

 

[A.T. Hagan]

When this thread started back on Tuesday I read it with only an academic interest since breeding a single-comb blue/green egg layer is not a project I'm particularly interested in.

It became something more than academic when I gathered the eggs that night! I have four layer tractors and one of them has nothing but Rhode Island Reds in it, but for two cross-breeds we hatched out last Spring. By their size, shape, and coloring I reckoned them to be a Buff Orpington and Rhode Island Red cross as I have a Rhodie cock bird and a couple of Buff hens in the yard we took the hatching eggs from. So I was considerably surprised when I gathered the eggs Tuesday night to find a green pullet egg in their box.

Now the yard we took the hatching eggs from does have two EEs in it. One's as white as snow with green legs. The other is the color of a perfectly toasted marshmallow - gold over white - also with green legs. Looks like perhaps a Buff Orp in her background somewhere. Both originated from Ideal so no idea what their make up is other than being EEs. It may be she produced the pullet that laid the green egg in the tractor the other night.

What makes this interesting is that neither of those cross breed pullets in the Rhode Island Red tractor have dark legs and both sure look to me like they have single combs. They haven't really started laying yet though, just that one egg so far, so their combs are not very developed yet so it may be that she just has a really bad pea comb. But it sure looks like a single comb to me. If I get another green egg out of there I'll take photos of both birds and let y'all decide.

Now I'm kicking myself for selling the two cockerels that hatched with them that looked just like them, but who knew?

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Put a couple of drops of different colours of food colouring in each hen's vent. You will be able to tell which hen laid which egg based upon colour streaks on the eggs.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Got another green egg out of that tractor last night so I'll try to get some photos of the two suspects this weekend and do the food coloring thing to narrow it down to the specific bird. Unless they're both doing it. They look pretty much identical to me.

 

[protodon]

A.T. Hagan :

Got another green egg out of that tractor last night so I'll try to get some photos of the two suspects this weekend and do the food coloring thing to narrow it down to the specific bird. Unless they're both doing it. They look pretty much identical to me.

That's really interesting, you should see if you can hatch them crossed with some other single comb roo and see what you get out of it. Too bad you don't have the ones that looked like them anymore but maybe they didn't have the same trait..sour grapes, right?​

 

[tadkerson]

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She will lay a brown egg. The probabilities are very slim that she will lay a green egg. The mother would have to lay a blue egg or green egg for there to be a chance that she would lay a blue egg. Even if she hatched from a blue or green egg that does not mean she will carry a blue egg shell gene. I am assuming the FBCM is a black copper marans.

Tim