Welsummer not a welsummer!!

[Fallenone05]

Olive eggers have yellow/orange legs a lot. Idk who told you that but they must’ve been mistaken.

There's a very wide spread belief that leg color tells you what egg color you're going to get. I was told that a bird with blue or green legs would lay those egg colors, too.

There's so much misinformation about egg color and what signs to look for on your bird for that info.

 

[Fallenone05]

I honestly really didn't know before that (meaning the post that I mentioned) that leg color had anything at all to do with what color their eggs will be.. if that was the case wouldn't silkie (according to the leg color matching egg color) lay black or at least very dark eggs? Maybe I'm just an unfit chicken momma

I agree with you. I have a lot of people argue with me that ear color (and some people can't even agree what the ear is) also says what their egg color will be.

Genetics for egg colors is super complicated and correlation is not causation.. and some people can't separate that.

 

[Fallenone05]

I hope that nobody believes that.

They do! They also believe that an Easter Egger bird won't stick with one color and it's random every time they lay.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Golden Crele Legbar?
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No, pattern is off and OP said it lays Olive Eggs.

 

[jus10inla]

I've gotten 2 eggs a day from her 3 times and shes been laying for 2 weeks.

Are you saying she has laid 2 a day three different times?

 

[jus10inla]

she might not be laying yet and your getting eggs from other birds by any chance ?

 

[EmmaRainboe]

That bird is NOT a welsummer. It has the wrong color and it has a crest. She is definitely an olive egger.

Spot on.

 

[JadeFarms]

There's a very wide spread belief that leg color tells you what egg color you're going to get. I was told that a bird with blue or green legs would lay those egg colors, too.

There's so much misinformation about egg color and what signs to look for on your bird for that info.

I hope that nobody believes that.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

I agree with you. I have a lot of people argue with me that ear color (and some people can't even agree what the ear is) also says what their egg color will be.

Genetics for egg colors is super complicated and correlation is not causation.. and some people can't separate that.

Would be cool though to get turquoise blue eggs from my silkies!

 

[Fallenone05]

This is old, but just to be clear - you’re mistaken. That’s what people say about earlobes.

No, I have literally been told by people that leg color = egg color. There are people in Olive Egger groups who are FULLY CONVINCED that dark green legs mean you're going to get dark green eggs. I've also been told that it is earlobes that determine egg color as well. I've also been told that the feathers close to the lobe are what determines the color.

I am fully aware that these are all incorrect. I'm simply passing on what other people have told me as '''fact'''. I own easter eggers and know this is all bogus. Egg color genetics and skin genetics for shank color aren't related.