As the title states. Trying to figure out what color eggs these future chicks will produce and what to call them for sell purposes.
I'll have 3 isbar roosters (two black and 1 blue)
I know the chicks from the marans eggs will be olive eggers (right?)
But what about the others
I have...
I have 2-3yr old Rocks, they have always been good layers of brown eggs. Suddenly, one has become sick and stopped laying. I thought maybe water belly but I think she would have died already if it was. The second rock is still laying but her eggs are turning cream colored and one was hard on...
My hen that I hatched out last summer just laid this egg. She is a cross between my barnevelder hen and my Easter Egger rooster. Has anyone seen disoriented speckling like this? And will she continue to lay eggs like this? 🥰 love how cool it looks and am hoping it does.
Hello all. My green queen popped this egg out today and I thought it was really weird. I just want to see if this is something that can happen occasionally to eggs or if there is something else going on. Below is a picture of the egg she produced today. Generally her eggs range from a light...
These are my layers as of now.
i thought i knew who was laying what but then I got a random blue egg. I know i have a girl who looks EE, but if she’s EE enough to lay a blue egg, who’s laying the darkest color egg? I have two amberlinks, two smokey pearl, the dark hen and the mille fleur duccle...
Any idea what shade of blue I should expect from this cross?? Also any ideas what the offspring would look like? I have a picture of my rooster, I don't have any pictures of the hens right now. Thanks so much!!
I thought it’d be fun to share some egg pics! We’ve had 4 new layers this week! I’m having so much fun with all of my different colors. In this pic I have eggs from my Easter eggers, Welsummer, Blue copper marans, Brahma, lavender Orpington, Barred Rock, Blue Australorp, Black star, gold star...
I am looking for a barred hen breed so I can breed white egg-laying black sexlinks. Apparently Hollands and Cuckoo Leghorns lay white eggs but they are both very rare. Are there more common white egg-layers with the barring gene? If I breed a Brown Leghorn Rooster with a Barred Rock hen, I am...
Hi everyone,
My 4-year-old Easter Egger Bessy laid a very dark (crazy vibrant/saturated) blue egg yesterday. Her eggs are normally pale blue (you can see the difference in the pics). Today, she's very lethargic, standing around like she's zoned out, and her comb is suddenly very pale. She's...
I was wondering if a mix breed pullet's eggs are determined by the genetics of her mother or her father, or if it is random.
For example, I have some chicks that are a mix of a Buckeye (Father) and a Black Copper Maran (Mother) so I was wondering if the hens would lay light brown eggs like a...
As the title - what color would a sapphire olive egger lay? Dark green or pastel? Trying to figure out what other breed and egg color to go for… thank you so much!
Hello! I have a bit of an obsession...
Limited coop room and want to optimize egg colours for the amount of hens I can have. I can add a couple more chicks, any suggestions which breeds?
The two last ones I don't yet know if they are hens or roos...
Currently have chicks:
- sapphire olive...
Hi everyone! I have two separate broods of chicks growing right now. One set is 2 weeks old and with a momma hen, the other batch is 8 weeks old and was just weaned. All are with the main flock since I hate integrating birds.
The older chicks are all marans mixes (BCM and chocolate marans) and...
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My girls started laying and this is the first year for some!!
I purchased a couple olive eggers last year. And I think one ended up laying blue eggs.
I heard somewhere that the earlobes of your chicken can help dictate what color egg they lay (is this true?)
Here is the color...
Hi! Many questions here about egg color So I am relatively new to chickens; we started our flock last June-ish. We ended up purchasing 4 older chickens to start, 3 barnvelders and 1 copper maran—Harriet Sr. (We now have 9 chickens, 4 older hens and then 5 pullets. The older hens all started...
Silkie eggs are supposed to be white or cream according to the standard of perfection. My growout pullets just started laying and the eggs look a bit too dark for a silkie to me. What do we think?
Now I'm not sure if the girls laying these are my own bred girls or the ones I bought as hatching...
Hello, all!
My Starlight Green Eggers started laying for me on Christmas!! Now, my Ameraucana roo just reached sexual maturity and has begun mounting my SGEs!
I do want to keep 4 more hens in my flock and I'd like them to be colorful egg layers, so, my questions are as follows:
1.) Is it too...
We like to play the guessing game with our pullets, so we are wondering what color of egg this Easter Egger here will lay. This is Peanutbutter, she’s about sixteen weeks old, and I’ve read that sometimes leg colour and earlobe colour can give us a clue. I don’t have any good pictures of her...
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This spring I purchased what I thought were 7 olive eggers, 3 mystic maran, 3 brahma and 2 americuanas.
What I've ended up with are 2 black copper marans, 1 of which is a rooster, and 8 french black marans. However, the black copper maran hen is laying a sage colored egg and the french...