Colourful and Unusual Chicken Eggs!

[ChickieChickieMama]

Yay!!!! I finally have my first eggs!!!! My two Golden Comets both just laid their first eggs today!!!

Babette's egg (left) is slightly larger and has dark brown Speckles! Lucille's egg (right) is smaller but darker brown.

 

[Citychickengal]

Late to the egg party here, but these are my current layers from left to right: SLW, Buff orphington, red sex-link, and two EEs. My sapphire gem pullet should start laying any day now, and I also have dark Brahma, ameraucana, and BCM pullets that haven’t started laying yet. My BCM pullet came from a lady who has some hens laying very dark eggs and some only med brown; reeeally hoping for that dark chocolate color!

 

[BBZZZZTT]

I forgot to come back and post-
All of my chickens are laying now!

Welsummer, welsummer, SLW, EE, EE

I have another EE that just started laying, her egg looks like the one on the right also.

 

[Citychickengal]

I forgot to come back and post-
All of my chickens are laying now!

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Welsummer, welsummer, SLW, EE, EE

I have another EE that just started laying, her egg looks like the one on the right also.

You have some great colors, love how dark those welsummers are!

 

[oregonkat]

Beautiful eggs, great colors. The shells look like they are super healthy too! I would call your no. 4 EE an olive egger as that is one olive looking egg!! Gorgeous!

 

[New2Chicks97]

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Ok please share who laid the darker blue eggs. My husband wants an assortment of colors and all of our EE blue eggs are very light blue.

 

[New2Chicks97]

 

[New2Chicks97]

The darkest terra cotta brown are laid by our Golden Sexlink.
The sage green is our Favaucana’s
The light blue are from our EE girls
The pale tan is either from our Buff Orpingtons or our Silver Laced Wyandottes. They both seem to lay a pale tan.
The other darker brown I believe was laid by our Black Sexlink.

I so want some darker blue eggs and some darker chocolate brown eggs. Which Marans lay the darkest eggs so I know what to look for? I am assuming that the darker or more blue eggs are Ameraucanas? We are all about egg color variety. My husband says he spent years having white eggs.....now he needs colored eggs in as many colors as we can get. I hope to get an Oliver Egger next spring too. I NEED a bigger coop as chicken math is getting me in trouble

 

[Citychickengal]

The darkest terra cotta brown are laid by our Golden Sexlink.
The sage green is our Favaucana’s
The light blue are from our EE girls
The pale tan is either from our Buff Orpingtons or our Silver Laced Wyandottes. They both seem to lay a pale tan.
The other darker brown I believe was laid by our Black Sexlink.

I so want some darker blue eggs and some darker chocolate brown eggs. Which Marans lay the darkest eggs so I know what to look for? I am assuming that the darker or more blue eggs are Ameraucanas? We are all about egg color variety. My husband says he spent years having white eggs.....now he needs colored eggs in as many colors as we can get. I hope to get an Oliver Egger next spring too. I NEED a bigger coop as chicken math is getting me in trouble

I feel you on the chicken math...we went from starting with three hens to ending up with eleven chickens...no idea how it happened.

As for dark eggs you’re thinking of the black copper Marans. They lay darkest of all the varieties. This is breed’s egg color chart; I think to be a true Marans, at least one that conforms to breed standard they’re supposed to lay one of the three darkest shades. Don’t quote me on that though, I’m far from an expert.

I have a Marans pullet and the egg she hatched from was either one of those super dark shades, or just one of the third or fourth lightest shades. The lady we got her from let her hens hatch the eggs and didn’t know which chick came from which hen. Really hoping we get some nice dark eggs!!

 

[New2Chicks97]

I feel you on the chicken math...we went from starting with three hens to ending up with eleven chickens...no idea how it happened.

As for dark eggs you’re thinking of the black copper Marans. They lay darkest of all the varieties. This is breed’s egg color chart; I think to be a true Marans, at least one that conforms to breed standard they’re supposed to lay one of the three darkest shades. Don’t quote me on that though, I’m far from an expert.
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I have a Marans pullet and the egg she hatched from was either one of those super dark shades, or just one of the third or fourth lightest shades. The lady we got her from let her hens hatch the eggs and didn’t know which chick came from which hen. Really hoping we get some nice dark eggs!!

Yep chicken math.....we originally intended to have 10. Then my in laws had to get my daughter 2 chicks so we had 12. And then we adopted the Favaucana. So all told we have 12 girls and 1 boy that was supposed to be a girl. Going to need a bigger coop for these plus the new ones I want next year!

Thanks for sharing the chart! I would be happy with any of the darker colors as it would be different from any we have. There is a breeder here locally that has Marans now I know which one to ask for.

My husband’s coworkers will buy eggs so extra eggs will get used. One of his coworkers was very interested in the colored eggs as he thought chicken eggs were only the white or brown you see in the stores. My husband enjoyed showing off all of the pretty colors we get.