egg color

  1. T

    Purple egg!

    I got an egg that appears to be purple! I suspect it’s from one of my lavender Orpingtons as she usually has a very pink egg. The bloom is very thick this time. What other color eggs do I need? 😉
  2. D

    2026 breeding plans! (Meaties, egg/feather color)

    New year and new plans, or really a continuation of my 2025 thread as it was getting lengthy. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/future-plans-for-2025-breeding-for-large-meaties-barring-lacing-and-ee.1637641/ Current head count is 44 hen/pullet and 5 roosters/cockerels for a total of 49...
  3. CountryLife4Me

    Any Midnight Majesty Marans Egg Pictures?

    I am looking for egg photos of Midnight Majesty Marans (Hoover's Hatchery, TSC or Rural King). I bought one MMM because I wanted a dark egg layer, but my hen is not laying dark eggs. They are tan with the slightest bit of darker tiny speckling on them. I'm wondering if this is just an anomaly or...
  4. JesWith3

    I. AM. SERIOUSLY. STUMPED (two different eggs, one hen??)!

    If you're familiar with Honey the SGE hen and Kitty the Ameraucana Splash "roo", you know my dilemma. It's been crazy with Kitty...back and forth between hen and roo and then SETTLING on roo for certain and now this! Guys, I have two chickens...Honey and Kitty. That's it. Honey has laid a...
  5. GodLovesU

    Ear Lobes = Egg Color?

    I was watching a documentary style show (Unwrapped) a week or two ago and a woman who worked at a chicken farm claimed that ear lobe color determines the color of eggs a chicken lays. Is this a myth, or do lobes and eggs actually affect each other, color-wise? If so, how?
  6. M

    Black maran or black copper maran

    Hello, could someone please clarify if this pullet is a black maran or a black copper maran? The poultry farm I purchased it from claimed it was a black maran, but their hatchery that supplies them only has French black copper marans. Additionally, I’ve heard black copper marans are sometimesc...
  7. Coletafarm

    What color eggs will these isbar cross chicks produce?

    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...
  8. L

    My Plymouth Rock laying almost white eggs

    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...
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  9. Northfork Butt Nuggets

    Egg color?

    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.
  10. E

    Random blue spots on green egg

    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...
  11. J

    WHO LAID THE BLUE EGG?

    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...
  12. ChickChic00

    Prairie Bluebell Rooster X Crested Cream legbar Hens

    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!!
  13. J

    Egg pictures- just for fun!

    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...
  14. maddiecakes

    White Egg-Laying Barred/Cuckoo Breeds?

    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...
  15. Ngirl

    Chicken laid abnormally dark/vibrant egg, now lethargic with pale comb

    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...
  16. GlicksChicks

    Genetics and Egg Color?

    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...
  17. S

    What color egg do sapphire olive eggers lay?

    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!
  18. S

    Which breed chicks to add colour to egg basket? Olive Egger vs Cream Legbar or Other?

    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...
  19. BerthaBoo

    Which cockerel would you keep?

    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...
  20. M

    Matching the chicken to the egg

    Hey guys!! 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...
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