Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[klf73]

Wow Jean, what an awesome color

 

[sewandgrow]

pips&peeps :

I found this egg this morning. It is from one of my lavender pullets. This is not a joke, this is the actual egg color.

I imagine the next one won't be exactly this color since sometimes the eggs take a long time to run through the oviduct when the birds are first starting up.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/5845_egg.jpg

Hopefully you can see the detail in the picture. This looks like it was painted with dye for easter.


Well, the picture does not do it justice. It is a much darker blue.

OMG................ you must be totally excited. I know I would be & dying to see what comes out next.....LOL​

 

[Goose and Fig]

Holy cow Jean! That egg looks like its made of jade. Crazy!

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

pips&peeps :

I found this egg this morning. It is from one of my lavender pullets. This is not a joke, this is the actual egg color.

I imagine the next one won't be exactly this color since sometimes the eggs take a long time to run through the oviduct when the birds are first starting up.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/5845_egg.jpg

Hopefully you can see the detail in the picture. This looks like it was painted with dye for easter.


Well, the picture does not do it justice. It is a much darker blue.

What a gorgeous egg!!

 

[jeremy]

pips&peeps :

I found this egg this morning. It is from one of my lavender pullets. This is not a joke, this is the actual egg color.

I imagine the next one won't be exactly this color since sometimes the eggs take a long time to run through the oviduct when the birds are first starting up.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/5845_egg.jpg

Hopefully you can see the detail in the picture. This looks like it was painted with dye for easter.


Well, the picture does not do it justice. It is a much darker blue.

Talk about gorgeous egg color!

That is amazing Jean!!!​

 

[pips&peeps]

Here is a better picture..... I hope.

 

[LarissaCluck]

That green egg is amazing! Definitely of Seussian quality.

I have 18 eggs in lockdown that started pipping today, including BBS Ameraucanas. So far none of the Ameraucanas have pipped so I am anxious. I have a whole bunch of Maran eggs with pips already. Fingers crossed!

I have to give back my borrowed incubator after this hatch, then no hatching for a while!

I lost one of my 4 week old lavender chicks this weekend. We had family watching them while we were in San Diego and I think they didn't change the water often enough.

I still have three, but the other one had really puffy muffs.

 

[jeremy]

pips&peeps :

Here is a better picture..... I hope.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/5845_egg2.jpg

It's even more amazing looking in this picture!!!

Now, we just have to find a way to get all of our birds to lay eggs with color that deep... I think I'll print a copy of the picture and hang it above the nesting boxes with a caption that says, "This is what is expected!".

 

[Illia]

Jean. . . .

You HAVE to preserve the egg shell on that one, put it in a display case or something!

 

[pips&peeps]

It's kind of beat up and has some scratches and poo on it. I wonder what she will lay next, hopefully it will be almost as good.