Colourful and Unusual Chicken Eggs!

[6sablehens]

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!!!

Sorry for such a late reply! Sounds like you have a lovely range of chickens, that’s so exciting. Good thing the latest crew look like they’re all pullets. I totally understand not being able to resist getting those polish - they’re so cute. Oh and the chicken math... I can relate

 

[6sablehens]

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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

Beautiful!!!

 

[6sablehens]

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

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

That’s great! They look beautiful

 

[6sablehens]

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!

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Loving those colours!
Can’t wait to see what eggs you get from your BCM. I’m hoping to get some this spring.

 

[6sablehens]

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.

Wow! That’s great. They’re beautiful
Thanks for the update!

 

[6sablehens]

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

All your colours are very pretty

“We’re only getting 3-4 chickens”... you know what happens. We need a new coop too.

 

[6sablehens]

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!!

Keep us updated on that marans pullet!

 

[6sablehens]

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.

My parents were only going to allow me to have a really small flock - 3-4 hens at the most. A few years later, thanks to chicken math, we’ve got 12 hens and 2 roosters... and are still going!

 

[6sablehens]

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.

Hoping to add some Marans to the flock as well. I also love showing people the eggs, and seeing their reaction!

 

[6sablehens]

The colors are really fun! You’d think it would get old, but I’m always excited to go see who laid and what colors we have!

Good luck on your Marans hunt, wishing you some dark eggs!

It makes collecting the eggs even more fun!