Crossing a Wyandotte/Orpington roo with an Olive Eggers, what color eggs?

[PrettyBirdRocky]

Still trying to understand all this egg color and crosses, but, just a simple answer would suffice, if we use our SL Wyandotte/ buff Orpington rooster over our Olive Eggers (grey in color, lay variety of olive color eggs from olive to speckled brown)

Would the offspring pullet lay a form of olive? Right?

Some pictures of our crew and their eggs as of now -- and no, the roo is not old enough yet just curious thank you

 

[nuthatched]

All of those eggs look brown to me. Since their eggs are already heavily leaning towards brown, the hen chicks would likely lay brown

 

[PrettyBirdRocky]

All of those eggs look brown to me. Since their eggs are already heavily leaning towards brown, the hen chicks would likely lay brown

These are our other browns and pinks and creams, so yes they are more brown, like a mossy green olive. It's hard to photograph some colors : )

 

[PrettyBirdRocky]

Now if I got a 2blue rooster, would they go more green than brown?

 

[Emmaloveschickens9156]

if you breed a blue egg laying chicken with a dark chocolate brown egg laying chicken, you will get a first generation olive egger. If you breed that olive egger with another dark laying chicken, you will get a second generation olive egger, and so on and so forth. (With every generation the egg gets a darker olive.) Hope that helps. Your pullets will very likely lay brown.

 

[paintedChix]

Your eggs don't look to be olive in color. If you are seeing olive, that's great. Using a roo that should only be producing brown egg layers, all chicks would be different shades of brow, though some MIGHT be olive...

If you want to re-introduce a blue egg color, your rooster needs to carry 2 blue egg genes. Ameraucana, CLB or Whiting True Blue breeds or a mix & knowing the roo has 2 blue egg genes.

 

[PrettyBirdRocky]

Your eggs don't look to be olive in color. If you are seeing olive, that's great. Using a roo that should only be producing brown egg layers, all chicks would be different shades of brow, though some MIGHT be olive...

If you want to re-introduce a blue egg color, your rooster needs to carry 2 blue egg genes. Ameraucana, CLB or Whiting True Blue breeds or a mix & knowing the roo has 2 blue egg genes.

Thanks! Yeah, have forgotten about this post but have learned a lot since posting. We plan on getting hatching eggs from a blue wheaten Ameraucana and going from there.

Here may be a better photo of our olives. They are more brown than green but definitely not brown lol and obviously since posting we now have a blueish/mint EE laying!

 

[AinaWGSD]

If your goal is olive or green eggs, your wyandotte/orp rooster isn't the best choice. Olive Eggers inherit one blue egg gene and one dark brown egg gene. Which means only 50% of your hens' offspring would carry the blue egg gene necessary for green eggs. Since wyandottes and orpingtons ba Aq. 1gboth lay brown eggs (often a lighter shade of brown) your rooster can only pass on brown egg genes. So any hens he produces with your olive eggers have a 50% chance of laying (probably medium) brown eggs.

A rooster that is heterozygous (has 2 copies) of the blue egg gene would be a better option if your goal is to hatch more olive/green egg layers. The chicks would inherit a blue egg gene from each parent, which should deepen the green. There's a chance for blue eggs with this cross too.

An olive egger rooster would also give better odds of green eggs, statistically only 25% chance of brown eggs.

You could also use a dark egg layer like a marans to get the color darker. But with that cross you're only going to have a 50% chance of green eggs.

 

[paintedChix]

Thanks! Yeah, have forgotten about this post but have learned a lot since posting. We plan on getting hatching eggs from a blue wheaten Ameraucana and going from there.

Here may be a better photo of our olives. They are more brown than green but definitely not brown lol and obviously since posting we now have a blueish/mint EE laying!

Ah!! Yes, now I can also see the olive eggs.

And wow, all those shades are awesome.

 

[paintedChix]

A rooster that is heterozygous (has 2 copies) of the blue egg gene would be a better option if your goal is to hatch more olive/green egg layers. The chicks would inherit a blue egg gene from each parent, which should deepen the green. There's a chance for blue eggs with this cross too.

2 Genes of the same would be "homozyogous". A rooster w/ 2 blue egg genes is homozygous for blue egg genes. (My auto correct changed homozygous to heterozygous 2x, soooo... ).

An OE would be heterozygous for both blue & brown egg gene colors.