Can a GREEN egg show up in a brown egg layer??

[dianneS]

Sorry, no I haven't, I hope someone else can answer your question. Good luck.

 

[lockedhearts]

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I went through the same thing when I posted about my Splash Orp hen laying the Olive Eggs. I know my Orp is Pure, I have her parents and my hens came from Miss Prissy, TuffoldHen and Speckledhen. I also have not had EE hens on my place in months and the Orp was just a chick when I got rid of my last EE. I have gotten Olive Eggs consistently from my hen since she started laying, some are lighter and some darker, I will try to post pics of the last few I have. I also have some in the incubator growing, I intend to grow up some pullets to POL and see if they carry on the same gene as their mother.

 

[Celtic Hill]

I have never had that happen. But this could be a fun thing! Breeding high quality silkies that lay green eggs!!! Sounds like a fun project that could make some on some $$$ ... i definetly wouldn't mind finding any of those eggs in my mail box

 

[babyblue]

A recessive gene can hide for 10-20 generations or more. I am part native American, a few generations back. if my complexion was dark and not Irish pale and the eyes were different I would look very native American.

also it could be a random gene mutation, yea its rare, but mutations have to start somewhere right?

 

[dianneS]

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Exactly what I was thinking.

 

[lockedhearts]

Here are pics of my Olive Eggs from my Splash Orpington hen, they are next to other BBS Orp eggs for comparison,

And the hen that lays them:

WiseChicks, just curious do you have Splash Silkies? I am wondering if that has something to do with this? Just grasping at straws

 

[speckledhen]

Interesting! Yeah, no green eggs out of my own Orps, so no idea where the heck that came from Karen. It's a puzzler.

 

[lockedhearts]

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I have no idea which hen she came from, I don't think it was Belle (Suede's daughter)

 

[WiseChicks]

Lockedhearts -

I have 2 black Silkies and 2 white Silkies in with a blue roo. I am going to isolate each of the silkies and try to figure out which one is laying the oddball eggs. I am going to set a batch of the blue eggs and see what happens! It will be interesting to see what the chicks produce at POL!!

I had eggs with me at work, so I put the 3 different color/shape eggs I am getting from my silkie pen on the flatbed scanner, covered them with a shirt and hit "Scan" it isn't great, but it will give you an idea.... email me at [email protected] and I will send the scan in an email.

I am getting mostly normal medium sized light brown eggs. someone is laying long oblong cream eggs and someone is laying the blue/green eggs. It is funny when you can make a multi-color egg carton out of one pure breeding pen!! LOLOLOL!

Katie