Black To White Experiment

[Rillowen]

I mean turquoise is by definition blue and green, less green than teal but still blue and green? Anyway, sorry its not what you wanted, that would be my goal color I think. There are MANY girls out there with turquoise as their favorite color, I bet they would sell super well!

 

[MysteryChicken]

I mean turquoise is by definition blue and green, less green than teal but still blue and green? Anyway, sorry its not what you wanted, that would be my goal color I think. There are MANY girls out there with turquoise as their favorite color, I bet they would sell super well!

I do like turquoise, but not as my only color of egg though, besides brown, cream, tinted, white, & Light Blue.

 

[MysteryChicken]

The RIR/EE gave me a whopper almost Army Green egg. It's double yolked.

This is her first egg, & it was dropped from the roosting bars into the poop below. Had to give it a little clean up before pictures, & candling. The air cell is ruptured due to the drop.

 

[Amer]

The RIR/EE gave me a whopper almost Army Green egg. It's double yolked. View attachment 4308152This is her first egg, & it was dropped from the roosting bars into the poop below. Had to give it a little clean up before pictures, & candling. The air cell is ruptured due to the drop.

That's crazy for a first egg. And she must have barely felt it considering she was on the roost bars.

 

[MysteryChicken]

That's crazy for a first egg. And she must have barely felt it considering she was on the roost bars.

It is. Once in awhile I do get a first timer lay a double Yolker, but never from the roosting bars.

 

[MysteryChicken]

The RIR/EE cross pullet is laying extra large Gray eggs. I'll get pictures here in a bit.

 

[servant_of_fluffs]

On the other hand, if it isn't expressly winter related, it could be that her "white coat" reacted with a more complete expression of the barring protein (resulting in more pigment supression) and when she had her "black coat" she had lesser expression.
it could even be diet related.. if she didnt have the correct amino acids for the specific color suppressing protein caused by the barring gene she could have ended up black because she couldn't produce as much!
Normally diet has little to no effect on color. Barring could be an exception though. The barring gene is actually a gene that was meant to produce a UV resistant protien periodically through the coat, which then mutated and lost some vital info and became a "nonsense" gene, but still caused a protien to be produced throughout the feather layer. That protien is now close enough in size ect to the normal "stop" code for melanin/pigment that it started messing with the pigmentation, mostly with melanin. Since the resulting color is dependent upon a continuously produced protien instead of the genetic code is is subject to outside influence.... which is honestly very cool.
Maybe one of the 4 mutations responsible has a stabilizing effect normally, making the protien amounts limited and evenly produced through the year, or it could even be a 5th mutation on the gene responsible for that!

I would probably be looking up the amino acids necessary for that protien and super charging her diet (within safety) to see if i could get her to get lighter, or dropping those less necessary ones to a lower amount and seeing if she got darker! It would probably only work during a molt, but would be so fun to test!!!

Of course, most of this is alot of maybes based off of loose genetics we as a species dont really know that much about.... so you know, grain of salt.

I want to be able to talk like this someday lol

 

[NatJ]

I want to be able to talk like this someday lol

It might happen! If you gradually learn a bit more, and a bit more, over time it adds up to a big amount.

Knowing the words, and using them, and spelling them are sometimes different skills. For example, "protein" is the correct spelling. The section you quoted has it right at least twice, and then wrong at least four times.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Here's the gray eggs I've been meaning to take a picture of. Shells are so thick, my flashlight doesn't go through.

 

[troyer]

Here's the gray eggs I've been meaning to take a picture of. Shells are so thick, my flashlight doesn't go through. View attachment 4315125View attachment 4315126

That's an uncommon color.