Brahma eggs being greenish???

[zabi]

Hello BYC users and followers...
It has been ages since last i have posted and been active (university life) but back and also back into the backyard chicken raising... i have 9 beautiful brahma chickens (3males, 6 females) which i raised and wanted to find out why my hens have started laying... one of the hen is laying light brown to cream eggs while the rest are laying green... is that normal??? I do know that a few breeds do lay green eggs, but didn't know that brahma chickens didand do they seem to hatch if fertilized???... thanks in advance and sorry for the poor pictures

 

[adlynch]

Could they be mixed with another breed of chicken? Where did you get them?

 

[rIrs roost]

Looks like its mixed. What color does the ducks lay?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Green eggs are not going to come from pure Brahma hens. The ones laying those are Easter Eggers. An EE is simply a chicken that could lay a green or blue egg. There are no standards for appearance of an EE, they can look like anything.

Looking at those hens it looks like a chicken with the blue egg gene was crossed into that flock. A green egg is just a blue crossed with a brown.

 

[zabi]

I don't know whether they were crossed... but I saw the parents of the stock and they were Brahma... in my country, we don't get different breeds of chickens.. we only have our local chickens and now these are a craze (and are only sold by a few people) and recently the buff orpington chickens have arrive (only one person has them)... I stay in Zambia and we hardly get all the breeds talked about in these forums are found

 

[Lazy Farmer]

I have a crossed hen that looks like a Red Sex Link. It is a cross from a Ameraucana hen and Rhode Island Red Roo.
It lays Easter Eggs. We have started intentionally breeding them now for the novelty aspect.
Pale green eggs.

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[Ridgerunner]

I don't know what your breed standards are in Zambia, each country can have their own. An Araucana in Britain or Australia can look quite a bit different from an Araucana in the USA, for example.

For us, part of the breed standard for Brahma includes egg shell color, it may not in Zambia. But a judge in a chicken show does not see the color of an egg the Brahma lays so egg shell color is not part of the judging. Instead of breeding to the entire breed standard many people that show chickens just breed for the traits the judge sees, even here in the USA. You can get some strange colored egg shells from some "show-quality" chickens.

Breeds are a manmade thing. You make breeds by mixing chickens. As long as you can make a chicken that looks like the breed is supposed to you can enter it in a chicken show and not get disqualified. Different breeders use different genetic mixes to make their show chickens. You can often get some surprises when you start to breed them.

 

[zabi]

Looks like its mixed. What color does the ducks lay?

I only had a male duck... he is now at a place with other ducks... rescued him when he was a chick

 

[zabi]

I don't know what your breed standards are in Zambia, each country can have their own. An Araucana in Britain or Australia can look quite a bit different from an Araucana in the USA, for example.

For us, part of the breed standard for Brahma includes egg shell color, it may not in Zambia. But a judge in a chicken show does not see the color of an egg the Brahma lays so egg shell color is not part of the judging. Instead of breeding to the entire breed standard many people that show chickens just breed for the traits the judge sees, even here in the USA. You can get some strange colored egg shells from some "show-quality" chickens.

Breeds are a manmade thing. You make breeds by mixing chickens. As long as you can make a chicken that looks like the breed is supposed to you can enter it in a chicken show and not get disqualified. Different breeders use different genetic mixes to make their show chickens. You can often get some surprises when you start to breed them.

We don't have any kind of competition, we are very few of us who keep ornamental birds (bantams etc) like I have a few silver Phoenix bantams... I stop breeding them cause of interbreeding... Now these Brahma come from South Africa.... I am happy with my birds... I was wondering what was happening with my eggs (thought it was nutrition)... I have placed them in an incubator and now I shall wait and see what I get.... thank you all

 

[zabi]

Finally the green Brahma eggs have hatched, they do look like Brahma... now we shall wait and see till they grow up