Silver laced wyandotte and Easter egger bantam

[chickiemama27]

We have 2 coops with different roosters. Our first coop has a silver laced wyandotte rooster with a variety of hens (Ancona, orpington, white Cochins, bared rock, RIR). Our second coop has a bantam, busy, EE rooster with a variety of hens (EE, green queens, polish’s, black australorp, and a lavender orpington). Curious how you determine what kind of babies we’ll end up with and what color egg layers they’ll be? This is our first year with 1 year old roosters and we’re pretty excited to hatch some babies!

 

[Yardmom]

Both roosters and hens contribute to egg color. The basics are white or blue shell. Then How much brown goes over the base color. Your SLW will contribute some brown. His base color would be white. It looks like chicks from his coop will lay brown eggs. The EE would most likely have a blue base. He may have a little brown making a green appearance. Most of the eggs from his chicks will be greenish. The darker the brown of the hatch egg the darker green the chick will lay.

 

[chickiemama27]

Both roosters and hens contribute to egg color. The basics are white or blue shell. Then How much brown goes over the base color. Your SLW will contribute some brown. His base color would be white. It looks like chicks from his coop will lay brown eggs. The EE would most likely have a blue base. He may have a little brown making a green appearance. Most of the eggs from his chicks will be greenish. The darker the brown of the hatch egg the darker green the chick will lay.

This is so interesting! Thank you for taking the time to respond. So how does color (blue, pink, green) in general end up coming from any bird?

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

This is so interesting! Thank you for taking the time to respond. So how does color (blue, pink, green) in general end up coming from any bird?

What do you mean?

 

[chickiemama27]

What do you mean?

Like is it possible to cross a white egg layer with a brown egg layer and end up with colored eggs? If the color is in the white, how did colored eggs come about?

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Like is it possible to cross a white egg layer with a brown egg layer and end up with colored eggs? If the color is in the white, how did colored eggs come about?

I’m still not entirely sure what you mean, but from what I understand, brown x white can result in varying shades of brown, including a pinkish, tan, and off-white color. You can’t get blue or green from brown x white.

 

[chickiemama27]

I’m still not entirely sure what you mean, but from what I understand, brown x white can result in varying shades of brown, including a pinkish, tan, and off-white color. You can’t get blue or green from brown x white.

Thank you. I was just trying to determine where the colors blue, pink, green came from? They had to start somewhere...so was curious where.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Thank you. I was just trying to determine where the colors blue, pink, green came from? They had to start somewhere...so was curious where.

As far as I’m aware, it was originally caused by a mutation, which was caused by a retrovirus(?)
That mutation won’t pop up randomly in your chickens. You’d have to breed in a bird with the blue egg shell gene- so, any bird that lays blue or green eggs.