F1 Olive Egger Breeding question

[chickiechick0502]

I have 3 F1 Olive Eggers. What rooster should I keep them with for egg color?


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[NatJ]

I have 3 F1 Olive Eggers. What rooster should I keep them with for egg color?

I'm not sure quite how to take that question.

To answer it one way:
The hens will lay the same color of eggs, no matter what rooster they live with, or if there is no rooster at all.

To answer it a different way:
If you have a rooster with those hens, and hatch the fertile eggs you collect, then the rooster will have an effect on what color eggs his daughters lay. Which rooster is "best" will depend on what egg colors you want, and what roosters you have available.

A dark-brown-egg rooster with F1 Olive Egger hens will produce some daughters that lay olive eggs, and some daughters that lay dark brown eggs. The daughter should be split about equally between those two types.

A brown-egg rooster with F1 Olive Egger hens will produce some daughters that lay green eggs and some daughters that lay brown. Some of the green eggs might be dark enough to be called "olive" or they might not. Some of the brown eggs may be dark enough to be called "dark brown" or they may not.

A white-egg rooster with F1 Olive Egger hens will produce some daughters that lay green eggs (probably light green) and some daughters that lay cream or light brown eggs (probably not pure white, and probably not medium or dark brown.)

An F1 Olive Egger rooster with F1 Olive Egger hens will produce about 1/4 daughters that lay brown eggs (mostly dark brown but some might be medium brown), and about 3/4 daughters that lay green eggs (some dark enough to be called olive, some probably lighter than olive.)

A blue-egg rooster or a green-egg rooster with F1 Olive Egger hens may produce just daughters that lay green eggs (probably not dark enough to be considered olive.) Or he may produce some daughters that lay green eggs, and some daughters that lay brown eggs (probably medium brown from a green-egg father, that or maybe light brown/cream from a blue-egg rooster.)