about the quest for blue eggs

[AHappychick]

I have seen a few posts and have already exausted all avenues on my quest for Blue eggs. in doing so I have learned that there are no really blue eggs and that infact my EE layed some of the bluest I have ever seen. I have now hatched countless Araucanas and Ameraucanas from some of the best breeders and thought I would share what I learned. Which is yes there are blue eggs but not any that are robins blue and that the blue lightens as the hen ages. I just thought I would post one of my bluest eggs from my EE I wish I had done this last year when they were even more blue but it still makes a good comparison. next to it is a real robin's egg so that you may really see the difference in color. The camera washed out the blue in my egg just a bit but the robins egg color is true, I am thinking that because the robin egg is more dull it photographs better.

ETA: this robins egg is 1/2 an empty shell found on the ground this past week not a whole egg or anything like that, I just turned it so that it would stand up in pic, but it is just the top half that fell out of the nest after the robin hatched.

 

[simplyscrambled]

Thanks for sharing what you learned, for those of us that also searched and came up empty! Heck, my EE that laid sorta blue eggs are getting so light, they almost are looking white!

 

[Birch Run Farm]

Most of my araucanas lay eggs the same color as your EE egg. I have an EE pullet who lays a true XL egg just as blue. She is being covered by my Whitmore Farms blue ameraucana cock. Still waiting to see what my ameraucana pullets do, they are too young yet.

 

[AHappychick]

Quote:
actually yours were some of the bluest also, too bad the po did such a scrambling job on them. I have gotten Araucana eggs from you and a few other people that were just as blue, maybe even more but they all went straight into the hatcher, I found the robins egg yesterday so the only blue egg I had on hand was my EE's lol

hows it going? Alabaster is doing great!

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

Cant wait till mine come...

I think they are beautiful...

 

[geareduplyn]

Just came across this post about the blue eggs. Robins do lay really blue eggs , in fact the color Robins Egg Blue is in common usage. I would try crossing one in, but they only lay six eggs a year, and are very flighty.

 

[AHappychick]

Quote:
well let me know if you do lol that would be a very funny pairing, I guess AI would be in order

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Just to add is a bit about personal perception of colour--to me robin's egg blue has quite a bit of green in it--still on the side of blue, but far from 100% blue. To me the sky is what I reference as blue; the crayola primary colour labeled "blue"; or even navy or royal blue.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

A royal blue ameraucana egg would be fabulous!!

 

[AHappychick]

Quote:
actually you are totally right this robins egg has a green hue to it, not blue-blue like the sky

I want a silkie that lays a blue egg lol