Colourful and Unusual Chicken Eggs!

[ldawntaylor]

Our eggs are so boring compared to those posted here! Light brown eggs from our 4 ladies (BO, PBR, golden-laced Wyandotte and silver-laced Wyandotte). Occasionally one will be speckled, but that's about as exciting as it gets around here. View attachment 1437626

Your presentation with the plant makes that one look quite nice to me.

 

[Cryss]

I love speckled eggs!

 

[6sablehens]

Our eggs are so boring compared to those posted here! Light brown eggs from our 4 ladies (BO, PBR, golden-laced Wyandotte and silver-laced Wyandotte). Occasionally one will be speckled, but that's about as exciting as it gets around here. View attachment 1437626

I think it looks great!! Love the speckles and good photo too.
Thanks for posting!

 

[skullgrrrl]

 

[ChickieChickieMama]

@ChickieChickieMama, I remember you said a while ago that you had chicks arriving in the mail, and they would lay a range of colourful eggs. Sounds so exciting!! I have been wondering how they’re going.

Awwww you remembered me.
None of my chickies are laying yet but my eldest crew is getting close at 13 weeks. The teens are 8 weeks old and the mail order babies are 4 weeks old on Tuesday.

My first crew was from TSC. I got two Welsummer pullets, two Golden Comet pullets, a Buff Cochin pullet, and three straight run bantams: a Black Cochin, a Golden Sebright and a Mille Fleur D'uccle. Of course, of the pullets both Wellys and the cochin are roosters . I was pretty sure all three bantams are roos too, and the Sebright is crowing already but now the Black Cochin and the MF D'uccle both still look like hens so maybe I'll get some little eggs from them along with my brown eggs from the Golden Comets.

My second crew includes two silkies (buff and white), two Polish (wcb and splash) and two lemon blue Easter Eggers...with only the splash polish appearing to be a roo so far, so that will add a little colour and size variety. Those chickies I picked up at a hardware store spontaneously because I can't resist those breeds.

My latest crew - the mail order chicks - are going to hopefully add the most colour and variety..and so far they all still look like the pullets they're supposed to be. Haha.

That crew includes one Welsummer, Cuckoo Maran, Barnevelder, Salmon Faverolle, Golden Campine, Silver Laced Wyandotte, White Laced Red Cornish, Gold Brabanter, Spangled Russian Orloff, Norwegian Jaerhon and two chipmunk coloured Easter Eggers (though one is significantly lighter and plumper and is my favourite.)

So in a few months hopefully I will have an awesome selection of every shade of brown, white and beige with a variety of sizes, some speckled dark brown Welly eggs and a selection of blue, green or pink eggs from the EE's and the Faverolle.

Chicken math is in full effect in my coop! But now reading this thread, I need some mauve eggs too!!!

 

[mountain chicken]

do all these eggs have different tastes , I always wondered about that . still got about 8 weeks to our birds start laying but we will only get brown and white

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

do all these eggs have different tastes , I always wondered about that . still got about 8 weeks to our birds start laying but we will only get brown and white

I have white, cream, dark brown with speckles, green with speckles, blue/blue green. I think they all taste the same. People tell me though that the blue/blue green taste better.

 

[ChickieChickieMama]

I have white, cream, dark brown with speckles, green with speckles, blue/blue green. I think they all taste the same. People tell me though that the blue/blue green taste better.

What kind of hens lay speckled green eggs? The only speckled eggs I've seen so far are brown Wellsummer eggs. I love the Speckles though....can any colour egg end up speckled?

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

She's an Americauna FBCM cross. So technically an Olive Egger.
I say she's a "Pear" Egger. They look like Bartlet Pears. LOL

 

[ChickieChickieMama]

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She's an Americauna FBCM cross. So technically an Olive Egger.
I say she's a "Pear" Egger. They look like Bartlet Pears. LOL

Oooh that's so pretty! I was thinking about trying to "breed" my own olive Eggers using my Welsummer cockerel and my EE's. I'm new to breeding chickens though (as in I've never done it but I ended up with some accidental cockerels so I'm considering trying just for fun), so I'm still learning about how genetics work in terms of crosses and colours.