Blue blue eggs

[speckledhen]

Did you really paint the house so you could check egg colors against it????????

Well, I purposefully wanted a true gray, not a blue gray, but it has really come in handy since I've had Ameraucanas.
This is my black Ameraucana, Gypsy's first egg. Looks very blue to me. Even my DH said, when he collected her egg today, that it was even bluer than he remembered. I bet some people would say it's greenish rather than really blue, though. Depends on the person's perception, the lighting, etc.

 

[Anne]

It does look greenish to me, but pictures aren't always true to color.

These are eggs laid by my very first Araucana pullets:

This picture is NOT edited to enhance color in any way. As you can see, one is blue and one is green. Early in the laying cycle I do get a fair number of nice blue eggs from my birds, but due to "genetic contamination" I also get plenty of greens (a "no-no" for Araucanas).

The pullet who laid the blue egg on the left-hand side is now a 3-year-old hen, and she's currently at the end of her laying cycle -- her eggs are so washed out you can hardly tell what color they are anymore.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Wow! Thank you everyone!
You all are so right in saying the perception of blue or green is in the eye of the beholder. DH and I argue over it all the time. We see them in different hues.
I, myself, would be happy with our EE's but I may let him buy some Aracuanas and Ameraucanas to see what he says about the eggs. I find the eggs much more interesting than the actual chickens. I guess I am odd that way.
Now to get more coops built for this interesting new project!Where will it end?

 

[LoneCowboy]

If you don't have any Americanas, you should get some no matter what color they lay. Speckledhen sent me some eggs with some others I ordered and they are easily my very favorite chickens. They are so sweet and cute. Even though 2 of them forgot to grow their beards, I still just love them. I actually like the beardless ones better. They have little baby faces.

 

[geareduplyn]

 

[deeszoo]

pips&peeps :

Yes, most breeders try to hand on to their good blue layers. They are hard to come by and to proliferate the genes is the goal.

I have also experienced hatching chicks from nice blue eggs and the resulting pullet layed a greenish egg....... so the genetic theories don't always work the way we expect.

When I was reading about shell color, the "experts" said that the color is inherited from the rooster, not the hen. Try using the roosters you hatch from the bluest eggs and see if that helps.

DeAnna​

 

[pips&peeps]

Nice eggs Lyn!!!!

Are those ameraucanas and araucanas mixed?

How did you do with the eggs you got from me?

 

[pips&peeps]

Quote:
When I was reading about shell color, the "experts" said that the color is inherited from the rooster, not the hen. Try using the roosters you hatch from the bluest eggs and see if that helps.

DeAnna

I have been breeding for about four years now and my roosters are from blue eggs. I know how the theory is "supposed" to work, but it didn't in this case.

 

[hcammack]

that picture makes me want to switch my entire laying flock to araucana, amerauacana, and EE but then I would miss the marans

 

[Ang]

As a side note, men cannot distinguish colors as easily as women. What they see as green we might see as a blue-green. God just didn't wire them to be as good as women at color distinction.