What happens when you mix easter eggers with other chicken breeds?

Serina81

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I know if you breed an easter egger with a marans that you get an olive egger. What about breeding with other chickens? Like a rhode island red's pinkish egg or a java's beige egg?
 
First, it always depends on the EE's egg genes. Most EEs lay green eggs, but some have brown or olive colored ones. . .

But, assuming the EE has a bluish green egg, crossing it to any sort of light brown egg will give more light brown eggs and/or pale olive eggs. Same goes for normal brown eggs.

Crossing it to a white egg layer will just lighten the original EE's egg color.
 
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