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  1. Ridgerunner

    Egg colours. First gen, second gen

    Unless you know about his ancestry, just what you infer from his chicks when they lay.
  2. Ridgerunner

    Egg colours. First gen, second gen

    Let me try this with symbols. A capital "O" represents the dominant blue egg gene. A smaller case "o" represents the not-blue gene. Since blue is dominant if just one of the genes at that gene pair is blue the hen will lay a "base blue egg. What I mean by base blue is that all eggs are...
  3. Ridgerunner

    Egg colours. First gen, second gen

    An Easter Egger is not a breed, it is more of a type. They are not necessarily pure for the blue egg gene. Pure means both genes at that gene pair are "blue". The blue egg gene is dominant so if just one of the genes at that gene pair is a "blue" then the hen will lay some shade of blue egg...
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