Walk into a backyard flock and you may find eggs in shades of white, cream, brown, chocolate, blue, green, olive, and everything in between. But where do all of these colours come from? Egg colour is one of the most fascinating aspects of chicken genetics—and it is something that has fascinated me personally since I began exploring breeding and egg colour more deeply. Over the past couple of years, I have spent a great deal of time studying eggshell colour genetics, trying to

**Add Power to Your Breeding Program** Whiting True Blue (WTB) chickens are known for their blue-egg genetics. Within our breeding program, we also work with **barred WTBs**, making selected birds particularly useful to breeders who want to incorporate barring into their own breeding projects. Barring is a **sex-linked gene carried on the Z chromosome**. When the right parents are paired, this makes it possible to produce chicks whose sex can be identified at hatch based on t

Is paying the higher price of pullet chicks affordably justified?