Throw Back Project.

[MysteryChicken]

Here's Pea's eggs. She took a break today.
They're the brown ones.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Her eggs are more of a Dark Speckled Plum, rather then brown. The mother(Buff Orpington) lays cream, & the father(Project Wheaten Crele Orpington)(Also a Throw Back Bird) hatched from plum.

Is the Brown X Heavy Bloom dominant over the cream(Brown) Variation?

Still learning egg color genetics.

@nicalandia, @NatJ

 

[NatJ]

Is the Brown X Heavy Bloom dominant over the cream(Brown) Variation?

Still learning egg color genetics.

@nicalandia, @NatJ

I have no idea about the bloom.

I've read that darker is dominant over lighter for most of the brown egg genes. There are apparently quite a few of them, but I haven't learned much about them, and they do not seem to be as well studied as many of the feather-color genes are. Studying them would also be more difficult because a rooster does not lay eggs.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I have no idea about the bloom.

I've read that darker is dominant over lighter for most of the brown egg genes. There are apparently quite a few of them, but I haven't learned much about them, and they do not seem to be as well studied as many of the feather-color genes are. Studying them would also be more difficult because a rooster does not lay eggs.

Yes, but the rooster does carry the genetics for the particular egg color from his parents.

I did find a page on egg color, but it didn't answer my question.
https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Genetics_of_Egg_Color_in_Chickens

 

[NatJ]

Yes, but the rooster does carry the genetics for the particular egg color from his parents.

Yes, that's what makes it so hard to figure out: he has genes for egg color, but because he does not lay eggs you are stuck guessing from his mother's egg color and his daughters' egg colors. But his daughters have genes from their mother and from him, and he got genes from both his mother and his father (and his father didn't lay eggs either.)

So it's like trying to figure out a puzzle with part of each piece hidden!

I did find a page on egg color, but it didn't answer my question.
https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Genetics_of_Egg_Color_in_Chickens

I think I've seen that one before.

I notice quite a few of "the exact reason has yet to be studied or determined" and "researchers have yet to determine why..."

I agree, it's not particularly helpful for figuring out the answer to your question.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Yes, that's what makes it so hard to figure out: he has genes for egg color, but because he does not lay eggs you are stuck guessing from his mother's egg color and his daughters' egg colors. But his daughters have genes from their mother and from him, and he got genes from both his mother and his father (and his father didn't lay eggs either.)

So it's like trying to figure out a puzzle with part of each piece hidden!

I think I've seen that one before.

I notice quite a few of "the exact reason has yet to be studied or determined" and "researchers have yet to determine why..."

I agree, it's not particularly helpful for figuring out the answer to your question.

Yes, it's quite the puzzle.

Dino: Hatched from a Brown egg with brown Speckles.

Goober: Hatched From a Plum Egg

Mother of Goober: Lays Plum Eggs(Hatched From Tiger's Brown Speckled Egg)

Tiger, Dino's mom: Lays Brown Speckled Eggs

Buff Orpington, Peas mom: Lays Cream Eggs

Pea: Lays Dark Plum Eggs

Wheaty Lays a darker shade of cream, shares the same mom with Goober.

Topaz lays cream, also has the same mom as Goober.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I'll be moving the Cracker Hens in to the Standard/project coop to avoid being bred by the Bantams.

This won't be until after I get my eggs from them that has been fertilized by the Sumatra rooster though.

 

[MysteryChicken]

The birds got their run litter finally.

Pea turned 24 weeks today.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Will be cleaning the coops soon, we have an early winter, & a Polar Vortex this year, so gotta rush abit.

 

[MysteryChicken]

My mini Orpington Buffy laid her first egg today. It was an Extra Large torpedo, but smaller then a mature hen's egg.