Egg color genetics...

[Shayanna]

I have a Minorca roo that I will be breeding to my hens. Buff Orpington (light beige eggs), isa browns (light brown eggs), and RIRs (brick brown eggs). If I keep the pullets from this hatch, what will their egg colors be, knowing minorcas are white egg layers? I'm not good with genetics.

[ladycat]

Light brown and cream.

[Tiempo]

Sometimes they can surprise you, I have an EE x Swedish Flower, mom lays a big blue/green egg, Swedish Flowers lay a pale brown/cream egg.

She just started laying and her eggs are pure white, not what I expected.

[KSALguy]

if the egg is green it already has something else mixed in, no telling what or how much, if you lost the egg color that quick then there was a lot mixed in, starting from pure blue you can mix quite a few generations before you loose the green color all together,

mixing white with brown just dilutes the brown pigment that is applied to the shell you will get at least one shade lighter if not two or three depending on the hen,