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Here is a picture of the spotted eggs I get from my Barred Rock, Roxy. I'm not sure if this is typical for Barred Rocks or if she will grow out of this someday (she isn't even a year old yet). But I like them, every one is different. The spots are brown and dark purple mostly.

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Curious if you have trying washing those speckled eggs?
I had a Barred Rock that would lay what I thought was speckled eggs until I washed one with soft scrub of a sponge... the speckles washed off! The eggs were just like the other hens' egss, a light pinkish-brown.
 
I have a Black Australorp that lays eggs that look just like that, but maybe a bit darker brown. I LOVE them!! The brown with the purple specks is so pretty! And they don't wash off, they are part of the shell of the eggs, just a little raised on my hen's eggs...
 
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Well, yes I can scrape them off with my fingernail. How do you like that? I won't be doing that again, but yes, they are raised and come right off.
 
KristyAz,

I love your eggs. WOW.

From time-to-time I get speckles but not as prominent as yours. Those are so pretty.

When I posted about my speckled eggs: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=534962
you made me fell that it was more 'normal'.

Mine only have them occasionally though. Like one in every ---- 25 eggs. And here I thought that it would require another (different) breed to get such pretty eggs. Let's hear it for the Barred Rocks. I think you chicken is really nice as well.
 
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From what I hear, the whole coloring of brown eggs can wash off. It is a coating that the hen puts on the egg as the last step of the process. Wash hard enough and the brown will be removed, and the outside of the shell will be the same color as the inside. I think our speckles are pigments that are deposited the very last.

What amazes me so much is that it is not just brown but also blue and lavender.

KristyAz... hope your hen doesn't grow out of it! :O)
 

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