What color eggs might I get?

[luke20]

What color eggs might I get if I breed and Easter Egger Rooster with an Easter Egger hen who lays green eggs? Is there any chance for their offspring to lay blue eggs, or would brown or green be more likely?

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Depends on the genetics of the rooster. If he carries a copy of the blue gene, you may get bluer eggs. Easter eggers are a mixed breed, so hard to predict the outcome. Try it and see what you get!

 

[aart]

Is there any chance for their offspring to lay blue eggs

Highly unlikely, but you never know!

 

[Birdie mom]

mix them up! who knows? - for blue eggs!

 

[CluckerFamily]

You could get any color. My broody EE hatched chicks from green and blue eggs. (I had an EE rooster). And the chicks grew up to lay blue, green, and even a pink egg.

 

[luke20]

You could get any color. My broody EE hatched chicks from green and blue eggs. (I had an EE rooster). And the chicks grew up to lay blue, green, and even a pink egg.

That is awesome!

 

[luke20]

Highly unlikely, but you never know!

Is it unlikely because the hen is already known to have the gene for brown eggs?

 

[aart]

Is it unlikely because the hen is already known to have the gene for brown eggs?

Yes.
There are only white and blue shells.
Brown eggs have brown coating on white shells.
Green eggs have brown coating on blue shells.
The brown coating can be very light or very dark, and can vary day to day.
Then the bloom can add another aspect to the egg color.
Pink/purplish eggs are from the bloom on a brown egg.

 

[luke20]

Yes.
There are only white and blue shells.
Brown eggs have brown coating on white shells.
Green eggs have brown coating on blue shells.
The brown coating can be very light or very dark, and can vary day to day.
Then the bloom can add another aspect to the egg color.
Pink/purplish eggs are from the bloom on a brown egg.

Thank you. I know how the colors come about, but I wasn't sure what the chances are that the next generation could lay a more blue egg.

 

[NatJ]

Thank you. I know how the colors come about, but I wasn't sure what the chances are that the next generation could lay a more blue egg.

Since you already know that brown over blue makes green, I assume you're trying to figure out how much "brown" will get passed to the chicks.

It's all going to come down to what genes the rooster has.

In general, if you cross two brown-egg layers, you get brown eggs.
Dark brown + light brown usually gives medium brown.
White + brown usually gives light brown.
But sometimes white-egg rooster with brown-egg hen gives white eggs (there's a sex-linked gene that can apparently prevent all the brown.)

So you've got some chance of getting just blue eggs, but I think a much greater chance of getting shades of green. Also some chance of getting brown eggs, with no blue/green at all.

I think there are multiple different genes that affect the shade of brown, and that no-one's really figured them out. People mostly just hatch the darkest eggs or the whitest ones, if they're trying to breed one direction or the other.