Brown?

[awizkey]

coming up now. I ate it but will get one similar colored.

I forgot I save my egg shells lol Here they are:

 

[awizkey]

Maybe more brown than I thought.

 

[TwoChicksChix]

Hmmm, yeah, that could just be bad luck. It happens a lot when you cross colors. The other three might still lay olive eggs, but this one probably got more of a light brown gene than a mix of the blue/brown.

How old are the girls?

 

[awizkey]

Hmmm, yeah, that could just be bad luck. It happens a lot when you cross colors. The other three might still lay olive eggs, but this one probably got more of a light brown gene than a mix of the blue/brown.

How old are the girls?

19 weeks

 

[TwoChicksChix]

Then you should be able to get the other eggs soon. Hopefully the others are more olive toned, because if they’re a cross of what I think they are then they still have a great chance to lay olive eggs

 

[aart]

but this one probably got more of a light brown gene than a mix of the blue/brown.

Egg shells are either white or blue, controlled by 2 genes.
The brown coatings are other genes, a dozen or so of them.

You will either get white or blue eggs(no coating),
or various shades of green eggs(brown coating over blue shells),
or various shades of brown eggs(brown coating over white shells).

That crested bird indeed looks to be from CCL stock,
and will probably lay green-hopefully dark enough to call 'olive'.

 

[awizkey]

I am worried about the crested one. She has been clucking for like 3 days now when it gets super hot, due to this heat wave. She sounds distressed until it cools down a bit (early mornings and just before sunset). I put ice in there and she goes now where near it. They are supposed to tolerate heat well. I hope she doesn't have a defect of some sort.

 

[Mybackyardpeepers]

My EE is laying mint green eggs, but later an almost white egg lol. She is a new layer.

 

[sealer39]

I’m not an expert but the bottom two look more like the Sapphire Gem that Hoover sells than The Sapphire Olive Egger. Aren’t the olive Eggers supposed to have yellow legs? Do all three hens have the same leg color?

 

[awizkey]

I’m not an expert but the bottom two look more like the Sapphire Gem that Hoover sells than The Sapphire Olive Egger. Aren’t the olive Eggers supposed to have yellow legs? Do all three hens have the same leg color?

No. 2 have black/grey legs and the one with the tuft has yellow legs. I thought they looked like those too when I went on their website this morning.