Blue eggs

[Gary Kenyon]

Hello, I have been getting 1-2 blue eggs a day, but from what I have read, all of my chickens are supposed to lay large, brown eggs. Any thoughts on where these blue ones might be coming from? My hens are all Australorps, Golden Sexlinks, and a couple of Saphire Gems.

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

Its hard to tell from your picture that those eggs are blue. What are your golden sexlinks?

 

[ShannonR]

We're gonna need some mugshots of your suspects....

 

[Gary Kenyon]

Its hard to tell from your picture that those eggs are blue. What are your golden sexlinks?

What do you mean? They are chickens that my kids got for 4H. Are Golden Sexlinks not a breed?

 

[Gary Kenyon]

We're gonna need some mugshots of your suspects....

I will snap a couple of pics when I feed this evening. Maybe one of them will look guilty!

 

[ShannonR]

I will snap a couple of pics when I feed this evening. Maybe one of them will look guilty!

I think it's 2 of them, if you sometimes get 2 blue eggs a day. I read your other thread, I don't think it is the meat chickens. My money is on the sapphire gems. Those, and also your sexlinks are crossbreeds that are generally bred for high egg production. So I guess they aren't a true breed... if you were to breed two of the sapphire gems together the offspring would not be the same as the parents if that makes any sense.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Sapphire Gems don’t lay blue eggs. You have Easter Eggers.

 

[pennyJo1960]

The one you call Saphire gem is a mixed breed so named by a hatchery they are barred mixed so sex-links or them are your blue layers

 

[ShannonR]

There is a such thing as a Sapphire chicken, which is a cream legbar x Leghorn mix that lays blue eggs. Might you have those?
https://chickenfanatics.com/sapphire/

 

[Gary Kenyon]

I think it's 2 of them, if you sometimes get 2 blue eggs a day. I read your other thread, I don't think it is the meat chickens. My money is on the sapphire gems. Those, and also your sexlinks are crossbreeds that are generally bred for high egg production. So I guess they aren't a true breed... if you were to breed two of the sapphire gems together the offspring would not be the same as the parents if that makes any sense.

Yeah, I did read that due to the way they are bred there is no way of knowing which traits will or will not get passed down. I guess it'll be an adventure with each batch I hatch!

I am kind of leaning towards the saphire gems as well, mainly because there are two of them. Someone else mentioned that they are a type of hybrid also, so maybe there is a recessive gene or something.