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It's all up to you. Each direction you go gives you different results, but here's a little diagram that may help -
Basically it is saying that if you take the first gen Olive Egger and breed it to a dark layer (Marans) again, you'll get much darker eggs but they'll be more on the brown side. Do it again and you're eventually going to get back to the dark reddish browns. In between and like seen in those collection photos, you may get some neat true chocolate colors too instead of red shades.
Cross the F1 back to a blue layer and you're headed back to a green shade of egg, do it again and you're back to blues.
Cross the F1 to another F1 and you're going to get anything and everything from normal olive green to normal dark reddish brown to anything else, including blue, mint green, green/brown speckled, avacado skin green, emu egg turquoise, etc. But you need to hatch out a lot of girls because the chances for some of those color options are slim, so it takes patience and mass batches to wait til laying age. The chart there shows if you went the most GREEN route possible, breeding for a bird carrying homozygous, pure blue as well as homozygous, pure dark reddish brown.
Just found this page in a search. Had to save the picture for use later, but wanted to say THANKS!
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