Recent content by IoneDexamene

It's important that the rooster be 1. homozygous for the blue shell base gene and 2. single-combed in order to be reasonably sure that the pea-combed offspring are homozygous. The blue egg gene is very close to the comb shape gene on the chromosome, so when the pea comb from the olive egger...

Wow, what a beautiful shade of olive! That's a great amount of brown pigment/blotch for an EE/brahma cross! I haven't heard any other reports like this, but anecdotally, I once had a case where an easter egger who was just starting to lay laid a blue egg, then a white egg, then blue for the rest...

The only chicken that breeds true for a remotely dark green egg is the Swedish Isbar, an expensive and hard-to-find variety which often lays disappointingly pale eggs. To remedy this, I've come up with a strategy to quickly create olive eggers that are homozygous for the blue shell base gene...

Hello! I'm new to ducks, and I'm totally baffled by the sex of this snowy call: Its coloration seems more female, especially compared to my other snowy call (who I'm pretty sure is male), but the head seems a lot darker than most snowy hens. It's also neither honking nor making the raspy...