Rare Blue Egg laying Frizzle

[Flokati]

Hi

Looking for a bit of advice, I have two frizzle hens, medium size (not bantam) they are a product of a frizzle cock with warren hens. I wanted the frizzle feather with the egg capacity of a warren. One is buff/red and lays very light brown eggs, the black one laid her first this weekend and it was blue!

Also they are not particularly prolific layers to date, they were hatched last summer.

So anybody any idea how this happened??

Kind Regards Sam

 

[Lordcluck]

They must carry a blue egg laying gene from a distant or not-so-distant ancestor, almost certainly from the Frizzle side of the family. Frizzle feathering is a semi dominant trait that is easily introduced to any breed or strain of birds and There are far more frizzle feathered birds than actual representatives of the Frizzle Breed itself.
I would Imagine that Araucana blood lurks somewhere in the veins of your breeding male, introduced either by a cross to pure Araucana or one of it's blue egg laying derivatives like the Ameraucana, Crested Legbars or Fenton blue/Cotswold Legbar hybrids etc. Like the frizzle gene, the blue-egg gene is semi dominant and is easily crossed into a strain of birds that lay white, brown or tinted eggs, creating pullets that can lay blue, green or Olive coloured eggs depending on what colour egg their non blue-egger parent breed produces.

 

[Flokati]

Thanks Lordcluck, good to know as my friend has just hatched a batch of chicks from the same cockerel, interesting to see what they throw up next time.

 

[Marigold]

Hi Flokati, and welcome to the Forum. What an interesting post to start off with!
How big are her blue eggs? Come to that, how big is the cockerel compared with the Warrens? My Cream Legbar lays blue eggs that were quite small in her first season, about 45-50 grams, but is now up to around 59 grams on a good day. I would imagine a purebred Warren would give you 65+ grams?