Blue egg from quial?

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Hello, ok I have coturnix quial, 2 that are laying.
The other my hubby found an all baby blue egg in there, no spots on the egg at all.
Is that normal?
That is the only one like that.
 
Every once in a while I guess this happens. I've gotten some really cool colors this year (my first coturnix) I'll have to see if i can post some of them.
 
Yes, that happens sometimes. I've also had plain cream colored ones with no speckles, and blue ones with speckles.
 
Didn't want to steal your thread so I posted a thread with some pictures of different eggs I've gotten. I think that they are usually new layers, different foods, some genetic and hoped if I didn't put a million pictures here someone might tell you why. I love the different colors. So fun to find a new one!
 
Coturnix can lay any number of eggs


blue eggs in coturnix with no spots are eggs that were layed early by a hen with a blue "paint can"
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That egg if she were to allow it to sit in her vent longer would have probably been a light tan or blue with speckles
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When they have no spots what happens is the hen did not keep them in her vent long enough. wether it was stress that caused her to lay early or what the egg wasnt suposed to come out yet. taht's why it's not always common to get solid blue, solid white, or solid green eggs but tehy do happen and normally the shell is dull in color (not shiney because it didnt stay in long enough to get the bloom on it) and also is thin shelled in most cases. they CAN still hatch though but if they are really thin the possibilty they hatch is really minimal.

Normally tuxedo and range coturnix have the blue paint can as i call it
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Buttons also lay blue and other oclor eggs when tehy do it's also because of stress or just laying early for some reason
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Rule of thumb, the darker the egg the shinier the egg, the spottier the egg, the longer it stayed in the hen. the less spots, duller, and thinner the egg, the less amount of time it stayed in the hen.
 

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