which is dominant brown shell or white shell color?

[jmc]

If you cross a leghorn (white shell) with an rir (brown shell), what color eggs would you get?

 

[maybejoey]

D brown + white usually equals a light brown egg.

 

[Illia]

Yep, light brown eggs.


White eggs just pale whatever they're combined with.

 

[Gypsy07]

And that would be the same whether the female was laying the brown eggs or the white eggs? Whether you crossed a male from a brown egg with a white egg laying female, or a male from a white egg with a brown egg laying female? The females would always lay pale in-betweeny coloured eggs?

 

[stoopid]

I'm no expert at the gene thing, but all my mutts have a varying shade of shell color depending on the parents.
I get alot of light brown eggs....

 

[jmc]

thank you so far!