What will the egg color be?

[JacksonPearce]

This is mostly for my own fun, but: I've got a sapphire rooster-- some manner of mix, though I don't know the specifics. He's got a rose comb, fwiw, which I know ties to the blue egg gene in some manner. I'll have to give him up eventually, since we're not allowed roosters, but I'm setting the fertile eggs from him and my purebred Isbar (green layer).

Anyone had this sort of cross before? Any guesses on what color eggs the offspring might lay? I see lots of info on olive egger colors but not so much on a purebred green layer!

 

[Welshies]

Rose combs tie to the blue egg gene?
What?
Someone explain this!!! If my roo has a rose comb this could be super important!

 

[rebrascora]

It's the pea comb, I believe, that is linked to the blue egg laying gene not a rose comb.

 

[JacksonPearce]

Ah, my mental slip mistake there! He’s got a pea comb, and it’s the pea comb that ties to blue eggs. Sorry!

 

[junebuggena]

Not a clue. He's got feathered legs, which is not typical of Sapphires. Without knowing exactly what went into him, there is no way to really predict what he will produce.

 

[JacksonPearce]

Not a clue. He's got feathered legs, which is not typical of Sapphires. Without knowing exactly what went into him, there is no way to really predict what he will produce.

Thanks! I’ll ask the breeder.

 

[rebrascora]

Since a sapphire is supposed to be a cross between a legbar and a leghorn, I'm not sure where he would get a pea comb from either.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Pea combs are dominant and single combs are recessive. Do sapphires breed true?

 

[rebrascora]

Pea combs are dominant and single combs are recessive

Yes but neither leghorns nor legbars have pea combs, they are both single comb breeds.
I would be very surprised if they breed true considering they are a hybrid.

 

[JacksonPearce]

Breeder reports he’s a mix of legbars, leghorns, and ameracaunas!