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Radrussie
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Thank you. Amazing info.
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Okay so you have just added a new colour that I didn't know about. Lol. Peach I beautiful. Think I am going to use my BCM over all my hens again and the move over to an EE rooster over all my hens. And repeat the process a few times. Can't wait to see what I get.I'm new to all this genetic egg stuff but my understanding is, If you hatch out these Olive eggs and then cross them back to your BCM roo. You'll deepen the darken up the olive eggs even more for different shades.
Here's a useful link I found that has a ton of great info ...
https://silverhomestead.com/easter-egger-egg-shell-color-genetics/
Check out the other menu items in that link. There's a ton of cool stuff there like how to start selling eggs, photographing/staging eggs, breeding heavy bloom layers.Okay so you have just added a new colour that I didn't know about. Lol. Peach I beautiful. Think I am going to use my BCM over all my hens again and the move over to an EE rooster over all my hens. And repeat the process a few times. Can't wait to see what I get.
Doing this will result in only max. 25% Olive Eggers as the parents already bring 100 % brown from the BCM and only about 50% blue/green from the EE hens.If you hatch out these Olive eggs and then cross them back to your BCM roo. You'll deepen the darken up the olive eggs even more for different shades.
This is really great info... Thank you for the correction. I may have to start tagging you in threads where I have limited knowledge.Doing this will result in only max. 25% Olive Eggers as the parents already bring 100 % brown from the BCM and only about 50% blue/green from the EE hens.
Pairing this offspring again to BCM leads to 75% BCM genetics and about 25 % EE genetics, but there even is the risk of some other non blue/genetics in the EE ancestry expressing, so your resulting percentage of olive eggs might even be lower.
Olive eggs would be great.Doing this will result in only max. 25% Olive Eggers as the parents already bring 100 % brown from the BCM and only about 50% blue/green from the EE hens.
Pairing this offspring again to BCM leads to 75% BCM genetics and about 25 % EE genetics, but there even is the risk of some other non blue/genetics in the EE ancestry expressing, so your resulting percentage of olive eggs might even be lower.
Um, I don't think that is correct. You do not know whether the EE hens are going to produce 50% or 100% chicks with the blue egg gene.Doing this will result in only max. 25% Olive Eggers as the parents already bring 100 % brown from the BCM and only about 50% blue/green from the EE hens.
The color of their feathers will not help predict what egg colors they lay.Hens hatched from green eggs. I have 2 green layers. Only hatched out there eggs. And only have the BCM rooster.
Offspring 4. Are slightly different looking in their appearance:
1x looks more like a BCM
2 x plain black
1x beared black
Would this make a difference?