Blue chicken egg?

[call ducks]

Humm, odd but it would do the job, ok i got to remember this i wonder (rummages through moms & sisters make up things) Dang non in the house

ok off i go to buy some (maybe...)

any chicken can lay a blue egg. as TK Poultry stated, the egg gene for blue eggs is O

 

[susannemw]

I guess with the lipstick trick you'd have to be careful NOT to put it back in the makeup bag after the chickens were done with it.

My mama always told me not to share my lipstick, but I always assumed it was because she was worried I would get a cold sore from someone. I bet she never thought of this use.

 

[coonriver]

I have around 30 chickens in the house that had the blue egg,the egg was a little bigger then the batam cochin eggs i got today but a lot smaller then the large cochins and regular eggs layers.

 

[TK Poultry]

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Yeah that may complicate things. What do you have in that pen I may be able to sort this out for you. Pictures would be GREAT!

 

[paddock36]

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That's not where lipstick goes!

 

[Kev]

Just thought of something- the majority of blue/green layers in US are pea combed due to the linkage. So if there's a pea combed bird....?

Colored egg layers with single or other types of combs are very possible, just happens to be on rare side in US. They do exist- all of my blue/green eggers have single combs except for one rose comb. Also a few people have played around with crossing breeds, it's possible you may have a bird descended from one of them or have a mislabeled bird(which is pretty common, so maybe you do have an EE or mixed breed bird labeled as breed X when it's not).

 

[syble]

The blue egg gene is dominant. So is there any birds you have aquired and not bred yourself? It also will always express just in various shades, so it would have to be one of the youngsters. She could lay larger as time goes on, maybe just a pullet egg at this point.

My first introduction to blue egg layers happened when i bought some of the best looking australorps i had ever seen at an auction. Heck i even showed them and they placed top of their class. But somewhere in their pasts something had been introduced. the breeder probably culled them based on egg color as everything else was spot on. So looks can deceive.
Sib

 

[Ariel301]

Is there any way it could be an egg from a wild bird? Just throwing it out there....I've heard of wild birds laying in chicken coops before.

 

[coonriver]

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Here's a picture of her,i got ahold of the guy i got her from when she was a chick and he said it's a EE crossed with a butter cup.she is the only batam i have with the big chickens and was thinking that she was the only one that could lay that small of egg.

 

[Illia]

Looks fitting. The thing to look for is a bird with a pea comb, or a comb similar to the pea type.