Blue blue eggs

[geareduplyn]

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What the H is imho???

 

[speckledhen]

H is honest or humble, depending.

 

[pips&peeps]

BeckyLA:

That picture is not touched up.

You can see the different shades of eggs in the picture. There are different shades of blue, a couple minty ones and I see a couple "teal" colored eggs too.

You probably just have never seen eggs this color before.

Araucanas have been around longer than ameraucanas and if you get eggs from a good breeder, their eggs are usually a nicer blue.

Obviously Lyn has been breeding for egg color for a long time.

Here is a picture of my best colored eggs from this year and I have only been at it for four years. It includes two green or khaki eggs and a brown for contrast. The two on the left are what I consider blue and the two on the right "teal".

I may contact Lyn to get some clean faced, tailed chicks or pullets to add her nicer blue gene to my flock...

 

[LoneCowboy]

I want a basket of eggs like that

 

[amazondoc]

I love all these egg pics!

I have managed to find a breeder of show Araucanas who is relatively close to my new property and who seems like a friendly guy willing to sell me a couple pullets. I have looked him up on the web, and he seems to have a good deal of show success (Dick Dickerson, if anyone here happens to know him).

I haven't asked him, yet, but now I'm wondering if he has considered egg color in his breeding selections. Can anyone tell me how much "show" Araucanas tend to suffer in egg color production, if at all?

 

[LoneCowboy]

I don't think you can say how much they suffer. It totally depends on what people are breeding for. As I understand it, if you are breeding for show, you probably don't pay much attention to egg color, so it could suffer A LOT, or they may just be really good color naturally without being bred for it. I think it would be an individual bird thing. However, if I were looking for egg color, then I personally wouldn't be looking for show birds.

 

[hcammack]

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I am pretty sure that the blue in the basket is a reflection from the very blue eggs when the camera flash went off I don't think this is changed at all.

 

[bantyman]

I used to have Aracaunas several years ago and they all laid that nice blue egg Nowadays you have to look for some that do Even if you do find some blue eggs the pullets might not lay blue if they were bred to a roo from a brown egg laying lineThe color would then be green The more they are bred to a brown egg breed the more off color the eggs get and the harder it is to get the blue back But all in all colored eggs are a real novelty and most people do enjoy them

 

[hcammack]

I was lucky even my EE lays blue eggs

my ameraucana girls lay from sea green to robins eggs blue I think it depends on the day

I could not be more happy with there eggs !

 

[hcammack]

ok with everyone posting egg pictures I had to post some of mine:

these are from my two ameraucana's and my EE and one from my delaware