The EE braggers thread!!!

[sdeneen2001]

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I thought that the egg color gene always came from the rooster. If so, then all of your new ones should lay brown eggs, even though they came from green eggs. Sorry

 

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SteveH that is a beautiful tray of eggs. Wow ! When I handle eggs such as when I retrieve them from the boxes, I always marvel at them. Sometimes the feeling sort of reminds me sorting through a collection of buttons.

Hey thanks for that post. I know that information has been posted more than once, but this time it makes sense because it is concise and in lay terms not scientific. While science is important lots of us like every day language.

GhostRider65 the first two pictures are lovely and I'm going to say (guess) that grey beard is a pullet. She looks girlie to me.

 

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If it is a dominate gene, it is not passed on by only the rooster. Either birds can have a dominate gene. In breeding for sex link birds, you use a rooster who has the dominate color gene in order to produce, females chicks with one color and the males the non-dominate. This needs to be checked by a guru.

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I thought that the egg color gene always came from the rooster. If so, then all of your new ones should lay brown eggs, even though they came from green eggs. Sorry

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

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EEs [that lay blue/green eggs] can either be pure for blue/green eggs or or only have one copy of that gene because it's a dominate gene. Any EE that's pure for it will pass one copy for blue/green to all her chicks........................ therefore all her chicks from a RIR will lay blue/green eggs. The EEs that only have one copy for blue/green eggs will only pass that copy to 50% of the chucks from a RIR. The offspring are not likely to be olive eggers because RIRs don't lay a super dark egg. [Green and olive eggs are blue eggs with a brown tint over the top; add a dark enough brown tint, and you can completely hide the blue. The three darkest brown eggs in this picture were actually from an olive egger....................... though too dark for any blue to show.]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/44349_eggs_012.jpg

Thanks for the info - it's very helpful. I guess this means there is either a 50% or 75% chance of her laying colored eggs, depending on how you look at it? If she carries 1 copy of the blue-egg laying gene, she has a 50% chance of laying blue or green eggs. If she carries 2 dominate genes for the blue egg, she has a 100% chance. Since I don't know how whether her mother had 1 or 2 dominant genes, I'm figuring on a 75% chance

Did I figure that correctly?

 

[vegaschick]

KentuckyFC I agree. I think you do have a hen and a roo there. I gotta say though, that hen is beautiful! Do you know what hatchery she came from?


GhostRider65 I think your first photo is also a hen (the other 2 look quite roo-ish to me) and I think your hen is also a beauty! I love all the different color/pattern combos you get with EE's!

 

[puredelite]

Ghostrider65- Nice pullet in the first pic and the little roo in the second pic has an awesome beard/muffs! From what I can see in the third pic the one facing the wall appears to also be a roo. Nice colors on these youngsters!

 

[Vickir73]

Blubug, I sent you a PM. Anyone else know where I could get EE roos? A coon & dog got into my brooder pen this past Friday night and got 2 of my light brown EE hens and my 2 white EE hens. The coon is now gone, but the dog hasn't been found. The brooder has been repaired and traps set.

 

[Cats Critters]

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If you where in PA I'd offer you one (or both

) of these boys, they are EE/BR crosses:

Boy #1:

Boy #2:

 

[SteveH]

If she carries 1 copy of the blue-egg laying gene, she has a 50% chance of laying blue or green eggs. If she carries 2 dominate genes for the blue egg, she has a 100% chance. Since I don't know how whether her mother had 1 or 2 dominant genes, I'm figuring on a 75% chance Did I figure that correctly?

You may have just worded it incorrectly, and meant something different, but; a hen with one copy of the blue egg gene is definately going to lay blue or green eggs................................ when crossed to a roo not carrying a copy of the blue egg gene, on average, only half of her pullets will lay blue/green.

I thought that the egg color gene always came from the rooster.

This seems to be an old farmer's myth that is still being passed on; those studying genetics discovered many years ago that the male only provides half the genetic information that will determine egg color. It was Punnet, I think, that studied the blue egg gene and discovered it was a dominate gene.

Cats Critters, those are nice looking roos you have there.​

 

[Cats Critters]

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Thanks! Unfortunately I don't have the hens/space for them so they are looking for a new home.