Green Eggs and Ham

Ok, so there's no ham, not yet anyway, except in the freezer, but.................

I do have green eggs. I was very disappointed when my first EE hen laid a brown egg. I only bought her for the green eggs, I wanted the kids to have green eggs. I thought it would be fun. But she is a good layer, brown eggs and all. Yesterday I went out to the pen and there it was, right on the ground, sitting there shining at me. A green egg. I don't have a pic uploaded yet, but I will. It is the prettiest shade of green. There was another one there for me today. No I can start my breeding project for the summer. I want to breed Silkies that lay green eggs. I think that would be wonderful. I am on the right track, I have her in with a Silkie and a showgirl rooster. I need to do some studying on genetics and figure out how exactly to go about this. I know there will be a whole lot of culls, but I have a neighbor who I am sure will take the culls. If not, it's not hard to give away a chicken . I guess the thing is to get a mix where the silkie feather gene and the green egg laying gene are both present. The bad part is, I will now know until they start laying if they will lay brown or green. This means I will have to feed a lot of chickens for a while in order to do this, but I really think it would be cool. However, I am not sure that they would continue to pass down the gene, so I would probably have to continue this for a while. Maybe even a few years. I am not know for completing projects, I hope I can follow through on this.