What color will the eggs be?

[KIm B]

I have a Rooster who’s parents are Partridge Silkie(roo) x TSC Bantam (hen) .

And a couple blue and green egg layers. I can’t remember which breed, I’d have to go look and see.

I’m wondering what color eggs the chicks will lay? I know nothing about chicken genetics. Also, how do you get a Easter Egger bantam?

 

[Pork Pie]

These links should help:


https://scratchcradle.wordpress.com/2012/07/01/gms1-genetics-of-egg-color/

https://scratchcradle.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/gms2-breeding-for-blue-eggs/

https://scratchcradle.wordpress.com/2012/07/15/gms3-breeding-for-other-egg-colors/

 

[Severne]

An EE should come from any color (besides dark brown or olive) egg x a blue Egger with two blue genes. I think that depending on the bantam breed that the TSC one is It will probably lay timed or brown eggs.

 

[Amer]

Also, how do you get a Easter Egger bantam?

That is a question that could be interpreted in many ways. You could buy an Easter Egger bantam, though I'm guessing you aren't asking how you acquire one. You probably want to know how they are made. Simply breeding together colored egg-laying bantams, many having the blue egg gene, I suppose. Or you could take some small EEs and breed them down to size. But this would take many generations and much time and effort. It would be easy just to breed bantam Ameraucanas with other bantams. Or skip the trouble altogether and buy an Easter Egger bantam.