color of guinea eggs?

[MichelleBelle]

View attachment 1741939 Most of my royal purples are laying various shades of light tan some with speckes - but today got this - green on one side shading to tan.View attachment 1741936

I've got guineas who's parents were pearl/royal purple mix and coral blue. They've got lots of very pretty dark blue and purple feathers. My guineas also lay green colored eggs, and they've got tan colored speckles in them. I also have Ameraucana and Easter Eggers, so when my guineas first started laying eggs I thought one of my easter egger hens was laying very large strangely shaped eggs. When I went to crack one for breakfast, it dawned on me that these were actually guinea eggs. Very hard to crack. 'Doh!

 

[R2elk]

I've got guineas who's parents were pearl/royal purple mix and coral blue. They've got lots of very pretty dark blue and purple feathers. My guineas also lay green colored eggs, and they've got tan colored speckles in them. I also have Ameraucana and Easter Eggers, so when my guineas first started laying eggs I thought one of my easter egger hens was laying very large strangely shaped eggs. When I went to crack one for breakfast, it dawned on me that these were actually guinea eggs. Very hard to crack. 'Doh!

Personally I have never heard of guinea hens laying green colored eggs. They are typically a tannish colored speckled egg but can also be white.

Guinea eggs

A guinea egg is approximately 2" long by 1 3/8" at the widest point.

 

[MichelleBelle]

Me either! That's why I really thought it was just one of my easter egger hens eggs. The guinea eggs are in the incubator currently, but I'll be sure to take a picture of them, along with the little keets that hatch out, so y'all can see their neat color.

 

[MichelleBelle]

Here's one of my guineas' eggs. I know these came out of the guineas and not my easter eggers because I separated them into their own run (they were picking on my Ameraucana rooster). This is my first time raising guineas to adulthood, so I don't have much experience- usually I buy eggs, hatch out and sell the keets. Some of the guinea eggs are really large, not very pointed, and double yolked, like this one. Some are smaller and pointy like what I hatched these birds out of. They only started laying within the past month though, so I'm expecting the eggs to become more consistent in size/shape soon. Most of them are this sort of light greenish color with flecks of tan. They're pretty, I think