purple eggs???

[TAMMACLEAN]

Hey Wolftracks, I'd like to keep up with your project.

Me too. I'd love to try for some purple eggs.

 

[chirpingcricket]

Me too. I'd love to try for some purple eggs.

Hopefully someone....will come back and just keep telling us about their journey,,,,,pictures are always inspiring!!!

 

[poularde]

I have a purple layer. She is a Marans Araucana cross. Here is a few pics of her eggs. Beautiful color. They have faded to a light brown now. I bred her with an Ameraucana cock. I can hardly wait to see what her offspring lay.

 

[chirpingcricket]

I have a purple layer. She is a Marans Araucana cross. Here is a few pics of her eggs. Beautiful color. They have faded to a light brown now. I bred her with an Ameraucana cock. I can hardly wait to see what her offspring lay.

How neat! Please keep us posted....just for grins and giggles.....oooohs and ahhhhs!!!

 

[wolftracks]

I started this with 2 hens last year and 2 that had just started laying before a dog attack that killed 17 of my birds. So I lost 2. This year I used the same parent birds that produced them, plus the original mom and a son, that I hope carries it. We'll see. I have a lot of little cockerels out of those hatches. A lot of my birds have started molting and the lavender layers are 2 of them. Gonna be a few months to see if any of the new pullets will lay them. I'm stumped on roos too, but I did breed the roo I held onto and bred him to a white egg layer to see if it shows. I'm going to keep a couple of these and breed them to white layers also and see what I get. I also used a couple of other pink egg layers to see if this was a fluke and only Big Bird can give me the right chicks, or if I have a chance with some others. I sure hope so, because they are going to be gorgeous birds.If not, they'll be pretty EEs. I also stuck some hens in that I'm hoping to get a rose colored egg from. I hope with a deeper pink, I get a deeper lavender or even purple. I really need a place with a lot more room for this project. I thought I'd have it by now, but I'm no closer. I have a lot of other breeds and this was just an experiment that somehow worked right off the bat.

I really don't post on this thread anymore, but sometimes I read it. Not often though.

 

[TAMMACLEAN]

I would love to have chickens that lay purple eggs. I have pretty much every other color.

 

[BelleFarm]

Did they

Thanks Mahonri - I do have some interesting colors.  Here's some that people describe as purple or really pink - plus some gray ones and some olive eggs.  All the birds that laid these have the same two parents - an EE mom and a BCM dad.

did they come from your eggs?

 

[BelleFarm]

The EE mom lays a large light green egg as seen in photo below. 

I hatch all of them and the offspring all look different from one another and each lays a different colored egg.  I've been hatching the olive eggs and selling both chicks and eggs because I get more olive eggs than I do purple or gray.  The olive eggs tend to produce babies that "LOOK" * like Copper Blue Marans (females) or pure Black Copper Marans (males) and it seems to be a sex-link trait.  Most haven't gotten old enough to produce their own eggs yet so I don't know what color the next generation will lay. But I may have to start hatching the purple and gray eggs just to see what I'll get from them.


*Legal disclaimer - "LOOK" means they "look" like pure breeds - obviously they are not - so I call them my "Olive Eggers".  (Just don't want to ruffle the feathers of those who like to correct anything that has to do with Marans.)  These are mixed-breed mutts who happen to lay beautiful colored eggs.

Are any of your birds for sale?

 

[BelleFarm]

You can come up with them on your own. Skeptical? I'm not worried about that. LOL  But it looks like this is becoming a thread that's going to be filled with insults and I have other things to do. Not going to argue. I don't need to. 

Ignore the judge mental people. There are so many people out there that want beautiful eggs like yours.

 

[Alaskan]

Ignore the judge mental people. There are so many people out there that want beautiful eggs like yours.

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