Mine does it too. First picture are all the same hen.
Second picture the 3 eggs to the left are hers and 2 Americauna eggs to compare the middle purple egg too.
Sometimes smooth in color but mostly I get speckled eggs. I think they look like bartlet pears. LOL
Does anyone else's OE seem to molt harder then their other birds?
I only have one OE hen and this is her first molt. She's half naked! I know each molt is different for each bird but I also have heard certain breeds molt harder then others. Wondered if OE's are one?
All this genetics talk has my head spinning.
Just in case anyone is interested I have 2 OE boys looking for homes.
White one is FBCM x Isbar
Black one is Americauna x Isbar
Geauga County Ohio. Will meet within reason.
My OE and her little bestie are about 30 weeks. I also have 28 week old Swedish Flower Chickens. (Cream eggs) Silver Bantam Cochin (8 months brown egg) Black Copper Marans (two - 1yr Grade 4 eggs Dark brown with speckles) Wheaten Ameraucana (two- 1yr blue egg and a blue green egg) Mixed breed...
I know my girl is an Ameracauna x French Copper Marans.
She's a sturdy girl who is always giving me the stink eye. She definitely has the most dinosaur look out of all my birds. :lol: She really is very sweet. Her best friend is my Svart Hona x B. Cochin mix. (not even 3 lbs)
I need a crested chicken! I agree not quite olive.... that could change though. I have a mixed girl, of who knows what mix, that lays pink and then fades to white. Then all of a sudden I get pink again.
There was recently a FB post about our local Humane Society asking for people to consider adopting farm animals they have. Someone tagged me in it and before I even saw it my poor BF responded, "Don't encourage her." Ha Ha Ha! He's afraid we'll be over run.:lau
I did the same thing when I when I went to pick up some hens! I heard myself say "ohh what are those!?" That how I ended up with two Wheaten Ameraucanas.
I have two Ameraucana girls that lay two shades of egg color. So from top to bottom are BCM, The Ameracauna girls, a Mixed Breed ( who's eggs go from pink to white) and a BLH.
Got my first OE this weekend. Here she is with her friend a Svart Hona Cochin cross. Does anyone else have an OE that purs? She sweetly sits in my lap and dozes off. Then as I pet her she trills and purs.