California - Northern

[ronott1]

Happy Birthday Ron!!!

Sorry I didn't catch it yesterday. Thank you thank you for all of your kindness and hand-holding for us beginners. If I could, I would elect you president of this thread

Thanks!

It was a nice Birthday. I am about to heat up left over Lasagna for lunch too.

 

[capayvalleychick]

Of course I'm south of Fresno so maybe too far away.
But I have been eyeing both the California Grey and the Dorking's. @tommysgirl

If you want Dorkings for backyard egg layers, I have some culls. They do not meet Standard, so aren't for breeding or showing, but they are fine as laying hens. I'll be going to the show at Stockton, so could bring some if anyone wants them. PM or email me if interested. I have a couple older Delaware hens, too.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Okay, so is the plum colored egg a breed specific egg or an EE someone tweaked?

I got plum colored eggs from a Welsummer/BR cross. With mine, the plum is the egg color and the bloom she puts on it. Still pretty, so I don't care. Some Marans have had plum colors too. Wynette had one that was plum, then you'd wash it and it would turn brown, then it dried and went plum again. She tried to hatch them, but none ever hatched.

Anyhow, here is my black sex link's egg:

 

[farmhand]

If you want Dorkings for backyard egg layers, I have some culls. They do not meet Standard, so aren't for breeding or showing, but they are fine as laying hens. I'll be going to the show at Stockton, so could bring some if anyone wants them. PM or email me if interested. I have a couple older Delaware hens, too.

@capayvalleychick I'll keep this in mind. Would love to come but thinking my chances may be slim.

 

[Chickengirl1304]

heres a pink/plum sometimes colored eggs from my Langshans the one in the middle

 

[PetRock]

I love my Langshans but rarely get an egg with a plum bloom on it. Here is a pic of my incubator filled with the shipped Langshan eggs that didn't develop last year. Some of them had a plum bloom on them.

 

[PetRock]

I got plum colored eggs from a Welsummer/BR cross. With mine, the plum is the egg color and the bloom she puts on it. Still pretty, so I don't care. Some Marans have had plum colors too. Wynette had one that was plum, then you'd wash it and it would turn brown, then it dried and went plum again. She tried to hatch them, but none ever hatched.

Anyhow, here is my black sex link's egg:

Nice egg color!

 

[chickee]

I got plum colored eggs from a Welsummer/BR cross. With mine, the plum is the egg color and the bloom she puts on it. Still pretty, so I don't care. Some Marans have had plum colors too. Wynette had one that was plum, then you'd wash it and it would turn brown, then it dried and went plum again. She tried to hatch them, but none ever hatched.

Anyhow, here is my black sex link's egg:

Wow!

That is a beautiful colored egg!!

 

[PetRock]

heres a pink/plum sometimes colored eggs from my Langshans the one in the middle

Pretty Langshan egg and companions!

 

[chickee]

heres a pink/plum sometimes colored eggs from my Langshans the one in the middle

I really like this pink egg too! Put the pink and plum colored eggs together in an egg carton and WOW!