If I bred two Easter Egg chickens will their offspring be Easter Eggers?

[NinjaGamer2022]

I would like to breed Easter Eggers in the future and I'm pretty sure I have some Easter Egger chicks right now and I'm wondering if I breed two Easter Eggers together will they have Easter Egger Offspring?

 

[Earthdale]

Easter Eggers are not a breed but rather a mixed breed containing blue or green egg genes so breeding an Easter Egger to a non-Easter Egger would still produce Easter Eggers.

 

[Yardmom]

The blue egg gene is dominant, so the probability of the chicks laying blue or green eggs is quite likely. There is a slight chance that your EE are split with one blue and one not blue gene. If two not blue genes pair then the eggs would not be blue.

 

[NinjaGamer2022]

The blue egg gene is dominant, so the probability of the chicks laying blue or green eggs is quite likely. There is a slight chance that your EE are split with one blue and one not blue gene. If two not blue genes pair then the eggs would not be blue.

OK, thank you for this info. If they both had a not blue gene would they still lay green and pink eggs? Thank you.

 

[3KillerBs]

Here's a chart I've seen a number of times:

"Easter Egger" has no real meaning other than that, at some point, there was a blue layer in the bird's ancestry. You'll see in the hatchery catalogs the fine print that Easter Eggers or "Americanas" can lay any color eggs.

 

[NinjaGamer2022]

Here's a chart I've seen a number of times:

"Easter Egger" has no real meaning other than that, at some point, there was a blue layer in the bird's ancestry. You'll see in the hatchery catalogs the fine print that Easter Eggers or "Americanas" can lay any color eggs.

Thank you! This is what I needed. I just wanted to make sure in the future if I sold Easter Egger eggs they would hatch out as Easter Egger. That is what the diagram is saying, right? Thank you.

 

[3KillerBs]

Thank you! This is what I needed. I just wanted to make sure in the future if I sold Easter Egger eggs they would hatch out as Easter Egger. That is what the diagram is saying, right? Thank you.

Some of the ones down the line will lay brown eggs rather than blue or green unless you make sure to hatch only blue or green eggs.

 

[NinjaGamer2022]

Some of the ones down the line will lay brown eggs rather than blue or green unless you make sure to hatch only blue or green eggs.

Thank you for your valuable info. So as long as I only hatch green or blue eggs they will hatch as Easter Eggers, correct? Thank you.

 

[3KillerBs]

Thank you for your valuable info. So as long as I only hatch green or blue eggs they will hatch as Easter Eggers, correct? Thank you.

Yes.

 

[NinjaGamer2022]

Yes.

Thank you very much for this info!! I plan to breed many chickens in the future (are chicks won't be laying for a while). I have one more question, does an individual Easter Egger lay a particular color (like just blue, green, pink, etc) or would it lay all of the colors mentioned? Thank you very much, I plan to sometime this week hopefully post pictures of some of my chicks.