Colourful and Unusual Chicken Eggs!

[Jennifer Cappi Williams]

This is a thing?
This is a thing!
Wish I had known.

The first goose eggs I kept natural but then I took some spray paint to the others after I drained them. If you aren't going to eat the egg (like some boiled eggs for Easter) then spray paint or other enamels do great.

 

[Cryss]

The first goose eggs I kept natural but then I took some spray paint to the others after I drained them. If you aren't going to eat the egg (like some boiled eggs for Easter) then spray paint or other enamels do great. View attachment 1644872 View attachment 1644873 View attachment 1644875 View attachment 1644876

So pretty! So you poke holes and blow them out? Then paint them? If they are blown out or drained you can still eat them can't you? Or do you paint them still full?

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

So pretty! So you poke holes and blow them out? Then paint them? If they are blown out or drained you can still eat them can't you? Or do you paint them still full?

I blow them out and make scrambled eggs. I do rinse the inside really well with cold water. You don't want hot as you could cook what's on the inside instead of rinse it out. I've never had a smelly one.

 

[Cryss]

I blow them out and make scrambled eggs. I do rinse the inside really well with cold water. You don't want hot as you could cook what's on the inside instead of rinse it out. I've never had a smelly one.

When my kids were young, I think my son was maybe 8, we boiled, colored, and hid Easter eggs. One was never found until he was about 16. It was in the top of our pendulum wall clock. It was in perfect condition and didn't smell. The egg inside must have dried and shrunk. I still have that egg. My son is now 42.

 

[Suzi18]

This threads is for posting about your chickens and the different kinds of eggs they lay.
From Leghorns to Black Copper Marans to Easter Eggers - whatever the breed, I’d love to see what others hens lay, as each egg is unique. I’ve always been interested in egg colours, and I though it would be great to share photos on a thread just for this purpose.

I’ll get started... below are photos of my hens eggs
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My Araucana x BCM started laying olive eggs around a week ago
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Beautiful eggs

 

[Suzi18]

Light Brahma eggsView attachment 1409638View attachment 1409640 View attachment 1409641 View attachment 1409643Bantam Frizzle egg View attachment 1409644Golden Sebright and Black Breasted Red Old English Game mix egg View attachment 1409646Easter Egger egg View attachment 1409642Easter Egger egg on the left and Ameraucana egg on the right View attachment 1409645 View attachment 1409639

Very pretty

 

[Suzi18]

My avatar frizzle hen lays the light gray colored egg in the egg pic.View attachment 1414109 Her mom had a purple/pink egg gene, and her dad had a green egg gene.

Love the gray egg

 

[Jennifer Cappi Williams]

So pretty! So you poke holes and blow them out? Then paint them? If they are blown out or drained you can still eat them can't you? Or do you paint them still full?

Goose eggs are REALLY tough shelled. I used a drill (I think it was called a "drimmel drill??") or something. You have to make a hole on both ends. It still does not come out easy. I finally just would use water to clean it out but it did take along time to get them clean on the inside. One I didn't get as clean as I thought and ....gross....flies got in it.

 

[Suzi18]

 

[Jennifer Cappi Williams]

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what lays that dark speckled egg?