Ameraucana Eggs - Difference in Color

[greenfamilyfarms]

What accounts for the difference in egg color in true blue-egg-layer Ameraucanas? I have noticed that sellers will take a picture and the eggs looks really blue, but to the naked eye and in person they appear green both indoors and outside. They are still a color that can be found on the ABC egg color chart, but is there a preference in egg shell color?

Egg shell color with flash appears BLUE

Egg shell color without flash and to the eye appears GREEN

ABC Egg Color Chart for Reference:

 

[Happy Chooks]

I've found it really difficult to photograph blue eggs. Here's one I took of my first Ameraucana egg. It looks more aqua in the picture than it was in my hand. It's taken under my under cabinet lighting without a flash. It's the closest I could come to the actual color of the egg. I've also had difficulty taking pictures of Marans eggs.

ETA: The light brahma egg in the lower left looks white in the picture, instead of pinkish brown.

 

[speckledhen]

I think the best way to photograph an egg is in natural light outside, no sun glare on it, on a white towel or cloth. It's really hard to get pics of the shades of blue sometimes.

 

[desertskynm]

This might be slightly off topic... But do true blue eggers also have a laying cycle like marans? They start off true-er blue but later in the season they are lighter or greener?

Thanks for letting me jump in...

DesertSkyNM

edited for better grammar

 

[Mahonri]

Yes, my eggs get lighter during the laying cycle.

For some of my girls, that means more blue.

My older girls have all just gone through a molt *feathers all over the back yard to prove it*... and so an new laying cycle has begun.

I'm going to need to start incubating some of these beauties.

I think that this pic was without a flash

This one may have had a flash... I don't remember

 

[sgtmom52]

I have found that the most true color shows outside in natural sun light.

Ameraucana in filtered sunlight...

Ameraucana eggs with brown & green egg for contrast...

Mixed basket with blue, green & brown eggs...

This is an olive egger egg (cuckoo marans/Ameraucana) in the sun...

 

[cashdl]

This pic was taken inside without a flash. It is fairly accurate to what the eggs look like in person.

They are all Araucana eggs just from different hens.

Lanae

 

[Thenino]

Hi, The egg on the left is one that my ameraucana lays. This picture is in the sun with no flash. What type do you think she is?

 

[boykin2010]

what species of chicken lays olive colored eggs? can you mix to breed together to get the olive color???

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Olive eggers are a cross breed- at least the first generation are. They are made by crossing a dark egg layer (like marans, welsummer, penedesenca...) and a blue egg layer like ameraucana or araucana. Sometimes EEs will work too if they have good egg color.