Breeding egg color

[chicken stalker]

Beside those who raise marans, do people breed for cool egg colors. Do I dare say .......cross breed chickens just for cool egg colors. If you do what colors do you have and what crosses did you make?

 

[tfpets]

Hey, I want answers too!!! Someone answer here!!
I did visit a lady who says her lime green egg with brown spots was a Cuckoo Marans/Delaware cross. So I have the Cuckoo Marans and I got a Delaware... I plan on crossing them so that I can raise the mix for the eggs! Thats in the future!
The Olive Egger's are supposed to be a Mix of the Dark Egg layer of some sort and an Easter Egger, people make them on purpose.
I would love to find out what mixes make what. Im hoping some of my current EE's are the yellow egg layers!!

Good luck finding out!
Tina/tfpets
(Egg obsessed)

 

[chicken stalker]

cool. lime green. I wish you had a pic of that! I really like greating wild colored eggs. I'm hoping that one of my EE's lays an almost turquise egg. Keeping my fingers crossed.

 

[tfpets]

chicken stalker ;p :

cool. lime green. I wish you had a pic of that! I really like greating wild colored eggs. I'm hoping that one of my EE's lays an almost turquise egg. Keeping my fingers crossed.

I'm after the yellow eggs! I have cuckoo marans, they are laying a 4 or 5 on the Marans color scale - and I have Black Copper Marans that are too young to lay yet. My EE's are too young too! I just hatched 3 True Araucana and they lay the true blue eggs! I am going to keep a few of my larger mix breeds to see what they lay!

Right now I have brown, light brown, pinkish, white, and really dark brown. I need more color! Oh, I get the occasional very light green from an Ancient Ameraucana.

Take care!

Tina​

 

[92caddy]

If you get any yellow eggs, i want to see a pic of it/them, better yet I would love to have one to blow out to add to my egg collection..............

 

[tfpets]

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I've been told that the EE's from Privett hatchery lay yellow eggs, or they offer yellow egg layers in their collections, but they are at random. I happen to have several EE's from Privett so

Tina

 

[92caddy]

I'll keep my fingers and toes crossed that you get a yeller egg or 2, good luck................