Arkansas folks speak up.........

[caj1985]

Your Favs are probably the culprits if your sexlinks didn't just lay an off size egg which occasionally happens. The Favs lay a darker brown egg than say BR.

 

[Puddin Fluff]

The Favs combs are still pink and no sign of squatting. I wish I had a camera to keep an eye in the nest to see who is in during the day. I expected pale tanish pink from the favs.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I am not getting any info/ideas from the egglaying forum, so maybe you guys have an idea.

Came home to this cute little egg but have no idea who layed it for me. We have 10 sex-link hens, 3 Salmon Fav. pullets, 1 Araucana pullet and 1 Mottled Houdan pullet. Pullets are almost 19 weeks so I am expecting some "new" eggs but not this color. Any ideas?

The hens being sex links tells me absolutely nothing about their background. They could be anything from commercial egg laying crosses to a deliberate crossing of many, many different breeds. Maybe someone used a dark egg laying breed to make a sex link? I sure don't know what happened with yours.

If your Araucana is a true Araucana she will lay a blue egg. But if she is not a true Araucana but is really an EE, she could lay any color of egg.

Your Houdan should lay a white egg and the Favorelles should lay a creamy colored egg, so it is probably not them. But again, I don't know how pure they really are. I don't know where you got them or how selective toward egg color the people breeding them were.

What do you know of the background of your sex inks? What kind of sex links are they, where did you get them, and what do you know of their parentage? My guess would be that the dark egg came from them, but that is purely a blind guess. There is no way for me to know for sure.

 

[TheJadeChicken]

Glad your mom got a new jeep

Sorry to hear about the chicks

. I am afraid we would have a dead dog around here if that happened

.

It is nice. It is a Cactus Green Jeep Liberty Limited Edition. It is nice and roomy. Got a good deal on it.

Hopefully someone is coming to get her this week or next.

 

[draye]

Hey we're from Camden. South Arkansas got to love it!

Hello and

, from Mabelvale Arkansas.

My parents were married in Camden almost 55 years ago, and have family that live outside of Camden now.

 

[Puddin Fluff]

The hens being sex links tells me absolutely nothing about their background. They could be anything from commercial egg laying crosses to a deliberate crossing of many, many different breeds. Maybe someone used a dark egg laying breed to make a sex link? I sure don't know what happened with yours.
If your Araucana is a true Araucana she will lay a blue egg. But if she is not a true Araucana but is really an EE, she could lay any color of egg.
Your Houdan should lay a white egg and the Favorelles should lay a creamy colored egg, so it is probably not them. But again, I don't know how pure they really are. I don't know where you got them or how selective toward egg color the people breeding them were.
What do you know of the background of your sex inks? What kind of sex links are they, where did you get them, and what do you know of their parentage? My guess would be that the dark egg came from them, but that is purely a blind guess. There is no way for me to know for sure.

My sex-links are last years 4-H pullet chain birds I believe the hatchery name was Bovine red or something. They have been laying almost daily for a year now. My pullets are pure breeds hatched from eggs from U of A Dr. Bramwell so there should be no surprises with egg color there. I really don't think they are quite ready to lay, no squatting, still pink combs.

We had a "chicken cold" run through the flock after they went to the county fair ( thank you other exhibiters) and so we had a corse of antibiotics recently. Production in the hens dropped off a little and I was wondering if the antibiotics or the "cold" might have caused the odd little egg?

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

i had one of my Marans 2 yo hens lay a little really dark little egg the other day... when we cracked it open it had a little piece of yolk about the size of a pencil eraser inside lol...

 

[Puddin Fluff]

It was just such a surprise to find aftere big perfect eggs for so long. We had all kinds of odd stuff when they first began to lay but this threw me. Are you ready for your round the world trip tomorrow?

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

lol sort of... i was planning on taking my mom's mini van and it blew a head gasket on Wednesday so I'm going to be taking my little old pickup and pray it makes it in one piece lol...

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

Just drive 55 and keep the left door shut. (As old truck drivers say). Drive careful. If you get tired let Mrsheritagehabitatfarms drive!

Warning! Jacob is coming with me to meet you!