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post #11 of 22
4/1/12 at 12:43pm
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I too want a colorful flock. So far I have 3 EEs, 1 red sex link, 2 light brahmas, 1 W.leghorn, 1 B.leghorn, 1 black sex link, 1 buff orp, 2 silver wyandotte, 1 mystery bantam, and 1 BR.
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post #12 of 22
4/1/12 at 12:49pm

Do your EE's not lay colored eggs? Or are you looking for a certain tint?

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post #13 of 22
4/1/12 at 12:59pm
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They are just fledglings but they should grow up to lay green/blue eggs. When I say tinted I mean like a cream colour. I am going to have brown eggs, chocolate colored eggs, (as soon as i get my welsummers,) white eggs, "Easter eggs", now I just need cream colored.
Where did you find olive eggers btw? I have never heard of them but I am in love with those olive eggs of yours.
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post #14 of 22
4/1/12 at 2:02pm

My Thai hen lays the lightest cream colored egg of all my hens. I don't have any pics of them on here but I would say that it is exactly what you're looking for. They also add a very unique look to your flock and are a very broody breed if you ever want a hen to hatch out your own chicks.

The olive egger I got by crossing my EE rooster to my RIR hen. I have always heard of Olive eggers and how to produce them so I was so happy when I bred one myself. Her sister unfortunately doesn't lay olive but she does lay a pink egg which is just as cool. 

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Edited by Kadjain - 4/1/12 at 9:15pm
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post #15 of 22
4/1/12 at 8:44pm

Kadjain, can you tell us which breed lays which egg in your basket?  I would love to know.  I have Pearl White Leghorns and Red Stars that already lay, then I have 5 Araucanas that are only a few weeks old right now.  I would like to build my flock on color as well.  Thanks for your help.

1 Silkie Rooster, 1 Bantam Brahma Rooster, 2 Blue Copper Marens Cockerels 1 Banatam Brahma pullet, 7 EE pullets,  4 Silver Laced Wyandottes, 2 barnyard x pullets, 10 Pearl White Leghorn hens, 5 Red Star Hens, 2 dogs, 2 horses, 4 sons, 1 grandson, and....Chicken Math has already taken hold here 

 

 

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1 Silkie Rooster, 1 Bantam Brahma Rooster, 2 Blue Copper Marens Cockerels 1 Banatam Brahma pullet, 7 EE pullets,  4 Silver Laced Wyandottes, 2 barnyard x pullets, 10 Pearl White Leghorn hens, 5 Red Star Hens, 2 dogs, 2 horses, 4 sons, 1 grandson, and....Chicken Math has already taken hold here 

 

 

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post #16 of 22
4/1/12 at 8:52pm
Love the colors

1 hubby(went to be with Jesus 05-12-12), three kids, 1 grand daughter

 

2 boxers, 2 cats, and bunches of chickens

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1 hubby(went to be with Jesus 05-12-12), three kids, 1 grand daughter

 

2 boxers, 2 cats, and bunches of chickens

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post #17 of 22
4/1/12 at 9:08pm
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Olive and blue egg.jpgGreen Pink Terra Cotta eggs.jpg

I have built up my flock to have a wide variety of colored eggs. My colored layers are Easter eggers, Olive eggers, Light Brahma, Welsummers, and mixes that lay different tan, and browns

 

Basket of easter eggs.jpgEaster egg carton.jpg


Is that.. a lavender or pink colored egg?!  Which one of your girls gave you that one?

 

Absolutely beautiful collection of eggs!

 

 

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post #18 of 22
4/1/12 at 9:09pm
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Kadjain, can you tell us which breed lays which egg in your basket?  I would love to know.  I have Pearl White Leghorns and Red Stars that already lay, then I have 5 Araucanas that are only a few weeks old right now.  I would like to build my flock on color as well.  Thanks for your help.


 

The blues and greens are from my Easter Eggers. The really dark terra cotta eggs are from my Welsummers. The next darkest eggs are from an Austrolorp/Buff Brahma cross. My Light Brahma lays the pink egg but she used to lay brown until she molted. My Rhode Island Red and Barred Rock lay brown eggs. I have a bunch of Buff Brahma crosses that lay different shades of tan. Then I have the Olive and Pink eggers that I hatched from my EE roo and RIR hen. And like I said above, my Thai hen lays a light cream colored egg. Oh yeah and I have White Leghorns that lay the white eggs. I think that's all of'm...


 

 

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post #19 of 22
4/1/12 at 9:12pm



 

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Is that.. a lavender or pink colored egg?!  Which one of your girls gave you that one?

 

Absolutely beautiful collection of eggs!

 

 


The lavender looking one is actually the pink one in bad light. It is laid by my Light Brahma but she use to lay brown eggs until she molted. I was afraid her eggs were going to get darker again but it's been a few months and they are still pink.
 

 


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post #20 of 22
4/2/12 at 7:07am

Golden Sex links, barred rocks, New Hampshire reds and amerucana's I don't know who lays the speckled egg, but I get about two a month

2 N.H. reds, 2 Barred Rocks, 2 Golden Sex-links 3 Ameraucanas, 2 danish brn leghorns, 2 Rohde Island reds
Urban farmer 5 orange trees 3 peach trees 2 avocados 1 lemon 1 lime 1 plum 1 loquat and an always rotating crop of vegetables.
Chickens and gardening just seem to go together.

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2 N.H. reds, 2 Barred Rocks, 2 Golden Sex-links 3 Ameraucanas, 2 danish brn leghorns, 2 Rohde Island reds
Urban farmer 5 orange trees 3 peach trees 2 avocados 1 lemon 1 lime 1 plum 1 loquat and an always rotating crop of vegetables.
Chickens and gardening just seem to go together.

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