Can someone confirm this is normal?

[Tcline4]

Easter Eggers and their variations for one lay green.

And your son hasn't had Marans eggs yet, they are the best tasting.


Don't believe me?... just ask Julia Childs or even better James Bond.

Olive eggers lay green eggs. Easter eggers lay from blue to a green. All hens eggs are white until they lay them. Then the color is added. What you feed your girls gives them the flavor and the pastured raised ones (where they can eat bugs etc) have darker yolks. Color has nothing to do with taste.

 

[wrathsfarm]

Olive eggers lay green eggs. Easter eggers lay from blue to a green. All hens eggs are white until they lay them. Then the color is added. What you feed your girls gives them the flavor and the pastured raised ones (where they can eat bugs etc) have darker yolks. Color has nothing to do with taste.

This is true.. and thanks for clarifying with the additional info....but in my defense she was talking about green eggs, and as I stated Easter Eggers and their variations which includes Olives, Sages, Army's and every other shades of green Eggers lay.

The Marans egg comment was meant to be a joke, hence the wink and James Bond reference. She's looking to add Black Coppers here in the near future and this was just a stab to the funny bone.

 

[z3lda3]

Easter Eggers and their variations for one lay green.

And your son hasn't had Marans eggs yet, they are the best tasting.


Don't believe me?... just ask Julia Childs or even better James Bond.

Are you talking about “from Russia with love”?

 

[z3lda3]

Olive eggers lay green eggs. Easter eggers lay from blue to a green. All hens eggs are white until they lay them. Then the color is added. What you feed your girls gives them the flavor and the pastured raised ones (where they can eat bugs etc) have darker yolks. Color has nothing to do with taste.

LOL apparently color has EVERYTHING to do with taste if you’re 7 years old.

 

[wrathsfarm]

Are you talking about “from Russia with love”?

Yes, and there's this...

Brown or White Eggs?​

Interestingly, Bond is said to have a strong preference for brown eggs, compared to white eggs.

The eggshell colour of an egg depends on the breed of the hen. Generally speaking, white shell eggs come from hens with white feathers, while brown shell eggs are produced by hens with brown feathers. Fleming mentions specifically that Bond likes the speckled eggs produced by French Maran hens which are indeed brown.

(If you want to try a French Maran egg, do a search for French Maran eggs, and perhaps you find some available near you.)

Nutritionally, both brown and white eggs are identical, unless the feed has been enhanced with for example Omega-3.

In another short story by Fleming, 007 In New York, Bond's preference for brown eggs is repeated (read more below).

From here...
https://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/...~:text=The Man With The Golden,." (Chapter 7).

And Julia Childs is notoriously famous for only using Marans eggs in her recipes.

 

[z3lda3]

Yes, and there's this...

Brown or White Eggs?​

Interestingly, Bond is said to have a strong preference for brown eggs, compared to white eggs.

The eggshell colour of an egg depends on the breed of the hen. Generally speaking, white shell eggs come from hens with white feathers, while brown shell eggs are produced by hens with brown feathers. Fleming mentions specifically that Bond likes the speckled eggs produced by French Maran hens which are indeed brown.

(If you want to try a French Maran egg, do a search for French Maran eggs, and perhaps you find some available near you.)

Nutritionally, both brown and white eggs are identical, unless the feed has been enhanced with for example Omega-3.

In another short story by Fleming, 007 In New York, Bond's preference for brown eggs is repeated (read more below).

From here...
https://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/articles/how-james-bond-really-likes-his-eggs#:~:text=The Man With The Golden,." (Chapter 7).

And Julia Childs is notoriously famous for only using Marans eggs in her recipes.

Look at you really defending those Maran eggs! I feel like, my tongue says, brown eggs do taste more..’buttery’. Full disclosure I’ve never had a maran egg..yet!
And who am I to argue with James Bond!

 

[wrathsfarm]

Look at you really defending those Maran eggs! I feel like, my tongue says, brown eggs do taste more..’buttery’. Full disclosure I’ve never had a maran egg..yet!
And who am I to argue with James Bond!

You'll get there, young Jedi...

 

[NatJ]

All hens eggs are white until they lay them. Then the color is added.

Um, not exactly. The yolk and white have nothing to do with the shell color, but when the eggshell starts to go on the egg it is either white or blue. At the very end, some eggs get brown color on the outermost part of the shell. This makes white eggs brown, and it makes blue eggs green. But all of that happens before the egg is actually laid.

Brown or White Eggs?​

Interestingly, Bond is said to have a strong preference for brown eggs, compared to white eggs.

The eggshell colour of an egg depends on the breed of the hen. Generally speaking, white shell eggs come from hens with white feathers, while brown shell eggs are produced by hens with brown feathers.

Argh, that is badly wrong, except it's almost right as well.
Yes, eggshell color depends on the breed of the hen.
No, there is no link between hen feather color and eggshell color. There are lots of breeds with white feathers that lay brown eggs, and even more breeds with brown or other colored feathers that lay white eggs.
But yes, the most common breed of white-egg hen is a White Leghorn. And the most common few breeds and hybrids that lay brown eggs do have brown feathers (Rhode Island Reds, and the various red/gold sexlinks.) It is a concidence as much as if someone thought that big dogs should be one color and small dogs another color, based on what is common.

 

[z3lda3]

Um, not exactly. The yolk and white have nothing to do with the shell color, but when the eggshell starts to go on the egg it is either white or blue. At the very end, some eggs get brown color on the outermost part of the shell. This makes white eggs brown, and it makes blue eggs green. But all of that happens before the egg is actually laid.



Argh, that is badly wrong, except it's almost right as well.
Yes, eggshell color depends on the breed of the hen.
No, there is no link between hen feather color and eggshell color. There are lots of breeds with white feathers that lay brown eggs, and even more breeds with brown or other colored feathers that lay white eggs.
But yes, the most common breed of white-egg hen is a White Leghorn. And the most common few breeds and hybrids that lay brown eggs do have brown feathers (Rhode Island Reds, and the various red/gold sexlinks.) It is a concidence as much as if someone thought that big dogs should be one color and small dogs another color, based on what is common.

Hm I thought chickens laid a certain color based on ear color?? Don’t tell me I’m wrong because that’s adorable lol.

 

[NatJ]

Hm I thought chickens laid a certain color based on ear color?? Don’t tell me I’m wrong because that’s adorable lol.

Um, that's another right and wrong one, although it is closer to right than the feather color one.

Most of the breeds that lay white eggs do happen to have white earlobs, and most of the breeds that lay brown eggs do happen to have red earlobes, but there are a few breeds that are exceptions either way. When someone mixes two breeds that have matching earlobe colors and matching eggshell colors, of course the chicks have those same traits too-- so new breeds and hybrids do tend to keep the same pattern that is already common. But if you start mixing chickens with red earlobes and chickens with white earlobes, you can easily get chickens that have both red and white in each earlobe. Adding the blue eggshell gene does not change the earlobe color, so you can have red or white or mixed earlobes on chickens that lay blue or green eggs. And depending on what other color genes the chicken has, "white" earlobes can actually look yellow or green or blue (Silkies are known for having blue earlobes.)