Gray eggs

[aart]

Other than blue and white.....color is from coating, usually a brown hue of varying intensity, some can be partially washed off....
......bloom is another 'coating' that is usually colorless, but can add a cast to the coating color.

The gray has me baffled, it's got to be coating and genetically controlled...but way over my little head.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Yes but what I was saying, nobody asks people with maran eggs to wash them before they can claim a color.

Maran egg and same egg washed.

 

[jeremy]

I used to have a gray~ish layer. She was the product of multiple generations of breeding OE X OE.



& when wet they were green again.



I lost her to a hawk.

She was a smaller bird, and of course one of my favorites. It's always one of your favorites.

I'm rebuilding my layer flock right now, does anyone have gray/olive eggs they'd share? @gimmie birdies ?

 

[gimmie birdies]

I am busy for a couple of months and I currently have 3 grey eggers. I just gave UGLYFOOT, 13 grey eggs to hatch, on the 14 March. So hopefully she can also supply the demand eventually.

 

[sawilliams]

Darn this chicken math... now I want a gray layer... I need a ranch

 

[gimmie birdies]

Gray egg to the left with out bloom, green in center, gray egg with bloom on the right.

 

[gimmie birdies]

 

[Scphilli]

@gimmie birdies Did the offspring lay gray eggs? Are you selling any? I would die for a gray egg layer!!!

 

[gimmie birdies]

going to test this one's fertility.

 

[maldojas]

Love her even without her grey eggs..