purple eggs???

[ReiMiraa]

so this chicken might be a sub breed of an aracuna, that hasn't been imported into the U.S. yet???

i would love purple eggs
my blue egg layer became predator chow
i have 2 green layers left
people don't believe my green eggs are natural.
of course they have to make a dr. seuss reference....

 

[becky3086]

I agree with Becky, LOL.

I don't think a lot of people believe me when I tell them that I have chickens that lay greenish colored eggs.

 

[pixie74943]

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[ReiMiraa]

????

so i am guessing no one here has this chicken that lays purple eggs?

or are they being secretive and failed kindergarden's first lesson: sharing.

 

[ke_ben]

This is the closest I have seen to purple eggs (3rd & 5th in the back) but they aren't from S. America

 

[Mahonri]

those look like my Barred Rocks eggs.

 

[tadkerson]

I do not believe chickens have the mechanism that would produce a purple egg. I would be very skeptical of the information. They just do not have the ability to produce a purple pigment. A bird could lay an egg that had a mixture of protoporphyrin-IX (brown pigment) and blood; this would cause a purple egg, but once the blood released its oxygen to the air and the proteins in the blood were oxidized the purple egg would turn brown.

Tim

 

[ruth]

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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.

 

[Ariel301]

Wow, those are some neat colors.

 

[blackdotte]

I think what you are referring to is what we know as a plum coloured egg.

These are Croad Langshan eggs, a breed I don't think you have in the US. I also got this colour out of a Wheaten Marans X Australian Langshan
David