Egg color?

[ChickChic00]

I got some eggs from my great grandmother and she has hens that lay olive colored eggs. I hatched out two chicks from the light olive eggs. My question is, if in the picture the eggs that they hatched from is this light olive color, and the rooster that is with her hens is a massive black rooster with specks of red( I believe he is a black jersey giant crossed with a welsinmer or rir) would the chicks lay or carry a darker olive color or just brown? Thanks so much!!

 

[MountainWoman73]

Could be either, I think. The green or olive colors come from a blue egg overlayed by a brown coating. So if the new chicks get a copy of the blue egg gene from their mom, they'll probably be olive eggers too. And if they don't get the blue gene, they will have white egg shells underneath the brown coating, so their eggs will be brown. Since olive eggers from a blue egger x brown egger cross will only have one copy of the blue gene, I think it's a 50-50 chance.

I hope you hatched girls so you get to find out!