Love this thread...love olive eggs!
My EExBCM's eggs have lost their darkness after a couple of months,
just like the Marans do. They are still pretty, but more of the blue is
showing through. They are now more of a soft, sagey, color:
First eggs:
Current eggs:
Bottom two on left.
I have...
Thanks guys! Well, she's pretty mossy.....
I only have two other pullets I'm breeding, one blue copper, one black copper..but their eggs are more
consistently dark, and have no conformation faults, I've decided to breed just them in the
Marans pen.
I'm only planning to hatch a few chicks...
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Are her eggs darker than the Marans pullets who did make the cut?
All the Marans are laying about the same color now, she didn't make the cut because she's a "mossy".
This is the egg she laid today, along with the two olive's laid this week, photo taken in natural daylight:
LOL...
I got my first olive egg this week from my BCM/EE cross.
This pic doesn't do it justice as in natural light it is deeper
olive with almost a golden glow. I'll get better photos if it
ever stops raining here.
I have two chicks from this hatch, Olivia and Oliver , and they are marked just like...