1st OLIVE EGG Alert!

[rebel-rousing-at-night]

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and to tclegg

Yes this were her first eggs ever. She laid her first egg last Sun. She was 21 weeks, 3 days old.

I'm sure the egg will increase in size. This pullet is from an EE hen and French Blue Copper Marans roo.

She was hatched by a Marans broody. The egg my pullet (that laid the olive egg) hatched from was green so it's my understanding she may have laid a brown egg instead of olive.

I'm so excited for the egg to be olive. It has a nice golden cast to it I like too.

Thanks guys for all the compliments!

 

[Farm_Maven]

gorgeous eggs!!

 

[rebel-rousing-at-night]

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As I said that sage egg was from out of the wood pile. I mean I don't have a hen that should have laid that one.

I have 5 EE hens. I bought them as chicks from Cackle Hatchery over 2 yrs. ago. I have all kinds of pics of their first eggs but nothing like the speckled sage egg that was laid last week. It was a fluke of some sort.

I've seen a lot of different color tones in their eggs.

Try the Olive Egger thread. I think if you had a known hen (such as Welsummer ) that laid a dark brown speckled egg you would then breed her to an Ameraucana roo to try for that combo.

I like that sage egg too but I don't even know which one laid it. I used to get a medium sized light olive egg that always had the best taste. Earlier this year I sold one of my EE's whose personality I didn't care for knowing in the back of my mind she was the producer of that best tasting egg.

Sure enough once she was gone so was that egg. I knew it had to be hers because the hen that laid that laid that egg was a poor layer and the one I sold worried too much about having all her feathers in place rather than laying eggs.

 

[ceeceeholt]

Yeah you I'm getting so excited. I have an EE that should be ready in Oct. Cannot wait to see what color she is going to lay She is white in the rear going to a buff and oh so pretty! Your eggs are beautiful, you must be so proud!

 

[JodyJo]

Gorgeous egg!

BTW, did you wash they eggs?

http://smallfarm.about.com/od/farmanimals/a/How-To-Clean-Eggs.htm

Not to insult...you may not know, you should not wash the eggs, till right before use...(Or of course you are taking
lovely pictures of them to share!) It removes the bloom and they start to loose their freshness almost
immediately.

 

[mikensara]

getting brown eggs right now cant wait for my ees to start laying should be soon they are 20 weeks now so hopefully by the end of sept. same for my tetras i cant wait to see what those look like.

 

[rebel-rousing-at-night]

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Thanks JodyJo for the compliment and advice.

I wait to wash my eggs before use however the 1st. olive egg and a couple more had been in the fridge and condensed in the warmer air.