Lakenvelder EE Cross Results?

[Labelles Velders]

Hello! I have an EE hen that lays blue eggs and is mostly of a partridge appearance. Although EEs don't breed true, is there any estimation to what the results would be egg color or appearance wise if I bred my Lakenvelder rooster to my EE hen?
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[Ridgerunner]

The blue egg gene is dominant. Since your hen is laying a blue egg that means she either has one blue and one not-blue egg shell gene at that gene pair or she has two blue egg shell genes. If she has two them she will pass one on to all her offspring and her daughters will all lay blue or green eggs. If she has only one than about half her daughters will lay blue or green eggs.

Lakenvelders are supposed to lay white or lightly tinted eggs. You said that EE is lying a blue egg. Green is brown on top of a blue egg. Brown egg shell genetics can get complicated and occasionally you can get a big surprise, but I'd expect the pullets from that cross to lay blue eggs if they lay colored eggs. It may not be an absolutely pure blue but it should be pretty close if it is not.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

If your Easter Egger hen has 2 copies of the blue egg gene then all female offspring will lay blue eggs. If she has only 1 copy of the blue egg gene statistically speaking only half of the offspring will inherit the blue egg gene.

 

[Amer]

Blue is dominant, and Lakenvelders lay white eggs, so she could in theory, have all blue egg laying offspring. However, she could be heterozygous, meaning half of them would lay white eggs.

 

[Labelles Velders]

Thank you so much! I hope for blue eggs in the future!

 

[Labelles Velders]

Hello! This update is long overdue. We collected eggs from this cross, and through a complicated series of events, now have a single chick. By act of miracle it is a pullet!

Her name is Aspen and she is now 12 weeks old. I hope for blue eggs this fall.

 

[Newyorkrita]

Oh she is very pretty!! Hope you do get your wished for blue eggs!!

 

[Labelles Velders]

Thank you!

 

[nicalandia]

That looks like single comb pullet, her chances of laying blue eggs are about 3-4%, perhaps you are lucky and she is a crossover recombinant, it has happened many times in the past(Dr. Punnet got a recombinant line from Chile and that is how the CCL and Isbars got their blue eggshell gene) so who knows, let us know what she lays.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Out of curiosity, do you know if her mother that laid blue eggs have a pea comb?