Colourful and Unusual Chicken Eggs!

[SueT]

What's a fairy egg? I see one dark brown egg in straw.

Fairy eggs don't have a yolk. This is what the only one I have gotten looked like:

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And speaking of tiny eggs, I LOVE my bantam eggs! They are great for making half recipes, and they make the cutest deviled eggs. You can peel them easily after boiling even when they were laid that day. My Sebright lays 5-6 eggs a week. My dream is to start a tiny egg company....

 

[Cryss]

Aha! Thank you both. I didn't notice the quarter. Guess I had a few fairy eggs, the first couple were very small but had delicious yolks.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Aha! Thank you both. I didn't notice the quarter. Guess I had a few fairy eggs, the first couple were very small but had delicious yolks.

the last one we got, right after winter, I steamed up with the rest of my hard boiled eggs, my husband ended up with it and said it was yolkless.

 

[6sablehens]

What's a fairy egg? I see one dark brown egg in straw.

They are tiny eggs a hen lays.
Often they are darker in colour than ‘normal’ eggs a chicken lays because the eggs not as big, often resulting in the egg having a more intense colour than usual as the colour is more concentrated in a smaller space, being less spread out.

 

[6sablehens]

Oops, just saw others have already posted the definition of fairy eggs.

 

[6sablehens]

Here's my EE's egg next to my Spangled Hamburg's egg. Bunny, the EE, is the only one laying colored eggs right now. Although, my BJG lays a nice darker brown speckled egg. I need to get a pic of our current eggs. I can't wait for my Araucana and her EE sister (aruacana/ameraucana) to start laying their blue eggs.View attachment 1421523

Nice, EE one is a good colour! I like them both! The white one looks shiny.
I find some of my hens eggs are shiny, and some are matte

 

[6sablehens]

Here's my EE's egg next to my Spangled Hamburg's egg. Bunny, the EE, is the only one laying colored eggs right now. Although, my BJG lays a nice darker brown speckled egg. I need to get a pic of our current eggs. I can't wait for my Araucana and her EE sister (aruacana/ameraucana) to start laying their blue eggs.View attachment 1421523

I’d love to see the others too!

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[6sablehens]

Fairy eggs don't have a yolk. This is what the only one I have gotten looked like:
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And speaking of tiny eggs, I LOVE my bantam eggs! They are great for making half recipes, and they make the cutest deviled eggs. You can peel them easily after boiling even when they were laid that day. My Sebright lays 5-6 eggs a week. My dream is to start a tiny egg company....
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Great photos! Bantam eggs are adorable!!

 

[6sablehens]

Who else would like to post on this thread?

 

[gimmie birdies]

They all look so nice!
A few others have posted pictures of grey eggs on this thread, and in one of the posts said their grey egg came from a pink / purple egg layer x a blue egg layer.
This post and yours is what’s making me wonder if grey eggs are the result of crossing a light egg layer with a blue egg layer.

Purple/pink egg geen+green egg layer.