why is our first egg blue when the hens were a road island and black sex link and the rooster was a

[lrayle]

 

[countrygoddess]

What was the rooster?

 

[BuffOrps123]

The Rhode Island hen must be crossed with something else

 

[lrayle]

I guess I didn't say this right The rooster was a road island and the hen was a black sex link this is one of the babies and they both look alike

 

[Alwayswantchics]

I have the same issue. I was told that some where in her genes is a blue egg.

 

[lrayle]

does that mean they might have easter egger in one or the other

 

[Alwayswantchics]

Possibly.

 

[BuffOrps123]

It must have a little trace of another breed that lays blue eggs!

 

[donrae]

Do you have pictures of the parents? Someone isn't what you're saying!

 

[off-grid hen]

I ended up with a green egg layer when I crossed a Dominique hen with what I was told was a golden laced Wyandotte roo that was given to us. He must have had the blue gene from a cross somewhere in his lineage. I inadvertently made my own sex linked Easter egger! Someone's got the blue egg gene somewhere.