AmericanMom, you have a mess with those combs. The Dominique has a rose comb. The pea comb is sometimes but not always associated with the blue egg gene. There are pea combed breeds that do not lay blue or green eggs. Rose and pea comb genes together make a walnut comb, sometimes called a cushion comb. The bottom hen in the photo in post #10 looks like she has a walnut comb so the odds are reasonable she would have the blue egg gene. I can’t see the other one well enough to tell. I’m debating with myself on getting a rose combed breed to mix with my pea and single combed chickens just to really mix my combs up though that will probably make it a little harder to tell which do have the pea comb.
Mine do the same. If I have a feed bucket in my hand they come running. If I hold something threatening and dangerous like a tiny camera they run away.
Nab58, EE’s are not half Ameraucana. There are a lot of misconceptions about that. If you read up on the history of Ameraucanas, you’ll see that Ameraucanas were developed from EE’s, not the other way around. Cackle Hatchery had their EE flock before the Ameraucana breed was even developed. A chicken being an EE does not mean a lot other than it might have a chance to have the blue egg gene. Calling a chicken an EE really doesn’t say much about the chicken genetically. EE’s are not a breed, just a chicken that might or might not have the blue egg gene. It’s confusing because EE really doesn’t mean anything.
Genetically there is one gene pair that determines if the egg is based blue or white. Green or brown is just brown in addition to base blue or white. Blue is dominant so if just one of those genes at that gene pair is blue, the hen will lay a base blue egg. But you don’t know if she has one or two blue egg genes just by looking at the egg she lays. If she lays a white or brown egg, you know she does not have any blue egg genes. Since a rooster does not lay eggs you generally don’t know what he contributes. There is a lot of uncertainty involved.
But something you do know if the hen lays a blue or green egg. She has at least a 50% chance of giving a blue egg gene to her daughters and sons.
Nab58, I don’t know what the genetics are of your chickens. You could get practically any egg color. Hopefully at least one of them and maybe both have the blue egg gene so you do have a chance at getting colored eggs.
AmericanMom, since the mom is laying a blue egg, she has at least one blue egg gene. Since the rooster came from a pink egg, his mother did not contribute any blue egg genes. You don’t know what his father contributed. So any pullet you get has a 50% change or better of laying a blue or green egg.
Good luck to both of you.
Mine do the same. If I have a feed bucket in my hand they come running. If I hold something threatening and dangerous like a tiny camera they run away.
Nab58, EE’s are not half Ameraucana. There are a lot of misconceptions about that. If you read up on the history of Ameraucanas, you’ll see that Ameraucanas were developed from EE’s, not the other way around. Cackle Hatchery had their EE flock before the Ameraucana breed was even developed. A chicken being an EE does not mean a lot other than it might have a chance to have the blue egg gene. Calling a chicken an EE really doesn’t say much about the chicken genetically. EE’s are not a breed, just a chicken that might or might not have the blue egg gene. It’s confusing because EE really doesn’t mean anything.
Genetically there is one gene pair that determines if the egg is based blue or white. Green or brown is just brown in addition to base blue or white. Blue is dominant so if just one of those genes at that gene pair is blue, the hen will lay a base blue egg. But you don’t know if she has one or two blue egg genes just by looking at the egg she lays. If she lays a white or brown egg, you know she does not have any blue egg genes. Since a rooster does not lay eggs you generally don’t know what he contributes. There is a lot of uncertainty involved.
But something you do know if the hen lays a blue or green egg. She has at least a 50% chance of giving a blue egg gene to her daughters and sons.
Nab58, I don’t know what the genetics are of your chickens. You could get practically any egg color. Hopefully at least one of them and maybe both have the blue egg gene so you do have a chance at getting colored eggs.
AmericanMom, since the mom is laying a blue egg, she has at least one blue egg gene. Since the rooster came from a pink egg, his mother did not contribute any blue egg genes. You don’t know what his father contributed. So any pullet you get has a 50% change or better of laying a blue or green egg.
Good luck to both of you.
