What color eggs.

[ShrekDawg]

Oh, okay, i thought that they were saying the silkies gave the colored trait. I've never seen a silkie lay a brown egg though. Mine always were pale cream or white

They may have been!! I’m not sure! Haha and hug, interesting! I’m not sure then. I assumed by cream they meant very light brown

 

[JaeG]

I think the first generation will lay pale blue eggs provided your Americana isn't carrying other egg colours (the silkie egg colour will lighten the blue and it may be slightly greener as well) but subsequent generations (if you were breeding the offspring together) would be hit and miss because they are carrying the cream coloured egg as well as the blue. You'd need to cross them back to a blue egg layer to guarantee the ability to lay blue eggs.

If your Americana is carrying other colours in the egg laying department, such as cream or white, their offspring may lay cream or white eggs. Apparently the pea comb is very closely linked to the blue egg laying gene, so if they have a pea comb it's very likely they will also have inherited the blue egg laying gene.

 

[twins225]

The male silkie hatched from a blue egg? If so, it's probably a mix, I maybe wrong ... Silkies lay cream colored eggs.

No...all 3 I am referring to are silkie/Americana mixes, which were hatched from blue eggs.

 

[twins225]

I think the first generation will lay pale blue eggs provided your Americana isn't carrying other egg colours (the silkie egg colour will lighten the blue and it may be slightly greener as well) but subsequent generations (if you were breeding the offspring together) would be hit and miss because they are carrying the cream coloured egg as well as the blue. You'd need to cross them back to a blue egg layer to guarantee the ability to lay blue eggs.

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If your Americana is carrying other colours in the egg laying department, such as cream or white, their offspring may lay cream or white eggs. Apparently the pea comb is very closely linked to the blue egg laying gene, so if they have a pea comb it's very likely they will also have inherited the blue egg laying gene.

Thank you for all of this!