Colourful and Unusual Chicken Eggs!

[6sablehens]

The dark green egg with the speckles broke when I was draining it I need to use a smaller drill bit from now on. View attachment 1415245

Oh no! That’s a shame. I usually use the end of a skewer, but that sometimes cracks the shell too.

 

[Akrnaf2]

The dark green egg with the speckles broke when I was draining it I need to use a smaller drill bit from now on. View attachment 1415245

Yon need to use a nidel or a nail.

And if you want to use physics to drain it out

 

[Harmony Fowl]

I just got to watch a hen lay a grayish egg. Here it is next to all my other colors.

Here is the bird who laid it.

She definitely has EE in her. I have a couple birds who hatched from the same set of eggs who appear to have Brahma in them. She herself is one of my larger hens, I wonder if it’s a very light blue/tan combo that makes grayish eggs.

I would love to make a little isolation pen to determine for sure which of my hens lays what. I am only somewhat sure of maybe eight out of the 17 and I have at least a dozen young pullets who will start laying late summer and into fall. No money or time for that now, but soon ...

 

[Akrnaf2]

One week yield of eggs.

 

[FeatherstoneFrm]

My hens are not laying yet. I have an Australorp, a RIR, and a New Hampshire Red. I am hoping to add a couple of Easter Eggers and at least 1 Olive egger. I want my egg basket to be filled with all the beautiful colors some of you have here.

 

[6sablehens]

Yon need to use a nidel or a nail.

And if you want to use physics to drain it out

Thanks!

 

[6sablehens]

I just got to watch a hen lay a grayish egg. Here it is next to all my other colors.
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Here is the bird who laid it.
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She definitely has EE in her. I have a couple birds who hatched from the same set of eggs who appear to have Brahma in them. She herself is one of my larger hens, I wonder if it’s a very light blue/tan combo that makes grayish eggs.

I would love to make a little isolation pen to determine for sure which of my hens lays what. I am only somewhat sure of maybe eight out of the 17 and I have at least a dozen young pullets who will start laying late summer and into fall. No money or time for that now, but soon ...

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.

 

[Lady of McCamley]

What an amazing collection!! I’d love to cross my green-olive egger hen with marans to get a darker olive.

Do you know what lays the pink egg in the last picture?

All your colours together are great for Easter!

The pink egg came from the Barnevelder Cal Grey cross, a BSL home brew. Love the color, but she did fade in time. She had thicker bloom that influenced the color which seemed to lighten in time.

Waiting for 2 Barney backbred daughters to grow to pint of lay. My Barnevelder rooster appears to have really rich peach undertone genetics, so I'm hoping refining back to him will produce that...though I have had cream crop up unexpectedly from a Marans cross.

The brown genetics are elusive...13 genes, some dominate, others recessive, some partial. It truly is a crap shoot.

I've got 4 broodies right now that I hope to get some CL Barney first gen for a new line. A raccoon cleaned me out of CL last winter, so restart.

I breed for egg color and feather color...the feather color helps me know the possible genetics for egg color as I have certain hens I use with my Barney roo.

Now trying to move to gen 2 and 3 without losing feather coding too much.

Fun thread. Egg colors are so much fun in the basket.
LofMc

 

[6sablehens]

I did a quick photo shoot (taken on an iPhone) of some the eggs we’ve gotten over the last few weeks. Our Araucana is moulting at the moment, so we don’t have any blue eggs, but our Olive Egger is doing well so far.

 

[6sablehens]

What eggs are you getting at the moment?
I’d love to see more posts!