What would an Olive egger crossed with a Wyandotte be ?

[BuddhaBob]

Would they basically be olive eggers? Got a potential rooster olive egger and 4 colors of wyandotte hens. What egg color of layers would come from the offspring?

 

[nuthatched]

Likely brown.

 

[Azulette]

Likely a green Easter egger- offspring would either lay 50% brown or 50% green ala this chart (from here: https://silverhomestead.com/genetics/)

 

[BuddhaBob]

Likely a green Easter egger- offspring would either lay 50% brown or 50% green ala this chart (from here: https://silverhomestead.com/genetics/)

Fantastic chart. Got links or pics of more for wyandottes, jubilee orpingtons, etc.? I love collecting information.

 

[Azulette]

Fantastic chart. Got links or pics of more for wyandottes, jubilee orpingtons, etc.? I love collecting information.

I do not, but this site is such a good resource! Give the search bar a whirl with different keywords. Here's a couple of links to get you started:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/golden-laced-wyandotte-x-easter-egger-new-pics.310412/

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...with-an-olive-eggers-what-color-eggs.1612952/

Best of luck!

 

[NatJ]

Would they basically be olive eggers? Got a potential rooster olive egger and 4 colors of wyandotte hens. What egg color of layers would come from the offspring?

Olive Eggers can be rather variable in what genes they have for egg color.

Your rooster may have no blue egg genes (all daughters will lay brown), or he might have 1 blue egg gene (half of daughters will lay brown, the other half will lay green) or he might have 2 blue egg genes (all daughters will lay green.)

For the "green" eggs, I don't know whether any will be dark enough to call olive, or whether they will all be lighter greens. There will probably be some variation of shades from one pullet to another.

If it is really important to know, there is a DNA test for the blue egg gene, that could tell what your rooster has. https://iqbirdtesting.com/blueegg

But if you are going to raise pullets from that flock no matter what genes he has, you could just wait and see what colors his daughters lay, if you aren't too impatient.