so, if i have an ee hen with pea comb, muffs and green legs, she's likely to lay blue eggs?
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She's likely to have the gene, yes.
The differentiations that people make when it comes to "show" eggs - like the difference between blue and greenish blue - are not an an indication of a different gene. It's not like there's a blue egg gene and a green egg gene. It's just blue. Blue plus various tinting from the normal colors a hen paints on her eggs makes the shades of blue and greenish blue and light green and olive that come from EEs. But if you showed a poultry geneticist an EE egg he's not going to say "Oh, that's different from this Ameraucana egg."
I personally think the reason people get "pink" from the birds with one EE parent that don't have the muffs and comb and leg color is because normal EE - that light greenish blue - is blue plus the tinted light brown that people tend to call pink if it comes from EE parents and call tinted brown if it comes from a Wyandotte. EEs "must" have some different color, so when they lay a tinted brown egg it gets called pink. But if the bird had either one or two blue-egg genes it would be greenish blue.
As has been pointed out very ably, the gamey little bearded birds we call EEs are the true originals; somebody took a few of them and decided to concentrate on a few colors and a single egg shade and call them Ameraucanas, but EEs qualify as a breed or landrace just as well as any other. It honestly makes me smile when people say that they're "mutts that inherited the blue egg gene" - they're "mutts that inherited the blue egg gene, the beared/muffed gene, the skin color gene, the body type genes, and are very predictable in color and they breed true." Last time I checked, that's pretty much all ANY of the breeds can say. So the greenish-blue typical EE egg is nothing to be ashamed of.
The differentiations that people make when it comes to "show" eggs - like the difference between blue and greenish blue - are not an an indication of a different gene. It's not like there's a blue egg gene and a green egg gene. It's just blue. Blue plus various tinting from the normal colors a hen paints on her eggs makes the shades of blue and greenish blue and light green and olive that come from EEs. But if you showed a poultry geneticist an EE egg he's not going to say "Oh, that's different from this Ameraucana egg."
I personally think the reason people get "pink" from the birds with one EE parent that don't have the muffs and comb and leg color is because normal EE - that light greenish blue - is blue plus the tinted light brown that people tend to call pink if it comes from EE parents and call tinted brown if it comes from a Wyandotte. EEs "must" have some different color, so when they lay a tinted brown egg it gets called pink. But if the bird had either one or two blue-egg genes it would be greenish blue.
As has been pointed out very ably, the gamey little bearded birds we call EEs are the true originals; somebody took a few of them and decided to concentrate on a few colors and a single egg shade and call them Ameraucanas, but EEs qualify as a breed or landrace just as well as any other. It honestly makes me smile when people say that they're "mutts that inherited the blue egg gene" - they're "mutts that inherited the blue egg gene, the beared/muffed gene, the skin color gene, the body type genes, and are very predictable in color and they breed true." Last time I checked, that's pretty much all ANY of the breeds can say. So the greenish-blue typical EE egg is nothing to be ashamed of.
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NICE JOB of explaining !!!
And Everyday when I collect my eggs the Wellie eggs and the Blue/Green/Olive eggers are slightly different shades and then there is there is different effects from the lighting. Especially when taking photographs.
NICE JOB of explaining !!!
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Here here!!!
I wholeheartedly agree! I've never had so much fun with chickens as I am with finding my Easter Eggs!!! I just happened to ask about the pink eggs today, and came home to find one!
The rest have been minty green - some with that khaki shade, and one that I think I could call blue! My quest now is to find out who is laying what! I don't know how to accomplish that though since I work 40 hours a week at a town job. Maybe chicken cam! I have one pure white EE that I think could pass for a "true Ameraucana"
and I was expecting her to lay something different than the others, possibly. I thought maybe the blue one was hers. I'll keep you all posted!
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None of mine are laying yet, so I don't know this from experience, but I have read you can put food coloring on their vent. Avoid the hot colors (red, yellow, orange) so they don't pick. If you just did blue and green, and wait a couple of days between dye jobs you could get them all eventually.
None of mine are laying yet, so I don't know this from experience, but I have read you can put food coloring on their vent. Avoid the hot colors (red, yellow, orange) so they don't pick. If you just did blue and green, and wait a couple of days between dye jobs you could get them all eventually.
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Pea comb usually means blue egg gene also. Muffs, leg color, earlobes, anything else is irrelevant. Having the blue egg gene does not mean the absence of brown egg genes which, if present, would combine to make green.
Pea comb usually means blue egg gene also. Muffs, leg color, earlobes, anything else is irrelevant. Having the blue egg gene does not mean the absence of brown egg genes which, if present, would combine to make green.
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Pea comb is linked to blue egg/green egg; they're right beside each other on the chromosome and are very likely to be inherited together. I can't find that muffs/beard has been researched enough but based on how reliably it predicts blue/green egg when one parent is an Araucana or EE I would guess it's similar. They tend to be inherited like (beardeggcomb) or (nobeardeggcomb) and not as three separate qualities. It's not 100% but it's shockingly close.
muffs/beard are not related to the blue egg gene, they are a coincidental trait of the Quechua and thus the EE and thus the bigger mutt, Ameraucana. the reason they show up is that they are dominant too.
Pea comb is linked to blue egg/green egg; they're right beside each other on the chromosome and are very likely to be inherited together. I can't find that muffs/beard has been researched enough but based on how reliably it predicts blue/green egg when one parent is an Araucana or EE I would guess it's similar. They tend to be inherited like (beardeggcomb) or (nobeardeggcomb) and not as three separate qualities. It's not 100% but it's shockingly close.
muffs/beard are not related to the blue egg gene, they are a coincidental trait of the Quechua and thus the EE and thus the bigger mutt, Ameraucana. the reason they show up is that they are dominant too.
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leg color means nothing and both the mother and father contribute egg color genes.
leg color means nothing and both the mother and father contribute egg color genes.
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Pea comb is linked to blue egg/green egg; they're right beside each other on the chromosome and are very likely to be inherited together. I can't find that muffs/beard has been researched enough but based on how reliably it predicts blue/green egg when one parent is an Araucana or EE I would guess it's similar. They tend to be inherited like (beardeggcomb) or (nobeardeggcomb) and not as three separate qualities. It's not 100% but it's shockingly close.
muffs/beard are not related to the blue egg gene, they are a coincidental trait of the Quechua and thus the EE and thus the bigger mutt, Ameraucana. the reason they show up is that they are dominant too.
Ohhhhhhhh MM, good thing you are on the EE thread that kind of talk will get you beat up on a differant thread!!!
Pea comb is linked to blue egg/green egg; they're right beside each other on the chromosome and are very likely to be inherited together. I can't find that muffs/beard has been researched enough but based on how reliably it predicts blue/green egg when one parent is an Araucana or EE I would guess it's similar. They tend to be inherited like (beardeggcomb) or (nobeardeggcomb) and not as three separate qualities. It's not 100% but it's shockingly close.
muffs/beard are not related to the blue egg gene, they are a coincidental trait of the Quechua and thus the EE and thus the bigger mutt, Ameraucana. the reason they show up is that they are dominant too.
Ohhhhhhhh MM, good thing you are on the EE thread that kind of talk will get you beat up on a differant thread!!!
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hahaha, yes but you know it's true!
EE X Other Stuff + selective breeding = Ameraucana.
hahaha, yes but you know it's true!
EE X Other Stuff + selective breeding = Ameraucana.
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