I have a silverrudd roo that is active over a mixed flock of hens.
Black astrolorp
Light brahma
Cream brama
White legbar
Some Easter eggers
Will those crosses just be easter eggers? Any chance of blue or green eggs from them?
I’m getting ready to order an incubator. Thanks for any feedback.
If the Silverudd rooster has two blue egg genes, he will give one to every chick he sires. That would mean every daughter will lay blue or green eggs.
So yes, a good chance that all the chicks will be easter eggers (chickens that lay blue or green eggs but do not belong to any specific pure breed of chicken.)
If the rooster does not have two blue egg genes, at least some of his daughters will lay brown eggs. There is a genetic test if you are impatient to know what genes he has, or you can just wait to see what colors his daughters lay.
I am no genetics expert but I think if he has the blue egg gene you would get blue eggs from the EEs and anything else that lays blue eggs.
The blue egg gene is dominant. So if a hen inherits it from just one parent, she still lays blue eggs.
This means that if the rooster has the blue egg gene, he can produce daughters that lay blue or green eggs even if their mothers lay white or brown eggs.
The hens that lay blue or green eggs will likely produce daughters that lay blue or green, even if the rooster had no blue egg gene at all.
You might get olive eggs from the brown egg layers but don’t quote me on that because you might need a dark layer for that.
I would expect shades of light and medium green, along with blue, but I would not expect eggs that are a dark enough green to be called "olive."
