Colourful and Unusual Chicken Eggs!

[oregonkat]

Here are this weekends eggs for delivery today!

Black Copper Marans (several), Cuckoo Marans, Speckled Sussex, Olive Egger (several), Easter Egger (Several), Cream Legbar, Black Australorp and some BCM x CCL ladies who should be laying in August so I'm excited to see what those eggs look like!

My customers love the speckled eggs, as do I!

 

[CitrusMan]

 

[CitrusMan]

(ABOVE!!)

Here's a few of my new olive eggers, Blue Copper Marans and Wheaton Ameraucauna, with Lavender Ameraucana and Welsummer, thrown in there somewhere.

 

[CitrusMan]

 

[CitrusMan]

(ABOVE!!!)

Some of my others...

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

From the top.... Olive Egger, FBCM, Wheaten Americauna x 2, another FBCM. Then Swedish Flowers a Bantam Cochin, a Svart Hona x Cochin and the white egg is either my Brown Leghorn or Barnyard Mix girl.

I have 3 Cuckoo Marans I'm waiting to lay and just hatchd 7 little fuzz butts of mixed breeds. Going for some olive eggs...

 

[6sablehens]

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

Oh, that’s interesting. It must be good having a Barney with those genetics, and it is always great fun cross breeding.

 

[6sablehens]

One week yield of eggs.
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What a good range of colours! Those blues and the green one are really bright.

 

[6sablehens]

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From the top.... Olive Egger, FBCM, Wheaten Americauna x 2, another FBCM. Then Swedish Flowers a Bantam Cochin, a Svart Hona x Cochin and the white egg is either my Brown Leghorn or Barnyard Mix girl.

I have 3 Cuckoo Marans I'm waiting to lay and just hatchd 7 little fuzz butts of mixed breeds. Going for some olive eggs...

Here are this weekends eggs for delivery today!

View attachment 1416622 View attachment 1416623 Black Copper Marans (several), Cuckoo Marans, Speckled Sussex, Olive Egger (several), Easter Egger (Several), Cream Legbar, Black Australorp and some BCM x CCL ladies who should be laying in August so I'm excited to see what those eggs look like!

My customers love the speckled eggs, as do I!

Thank you everyone for your posts! Those colours are beautiful!!
Great photos.

 

[oregonkat]

Of the most beautiful eggs from a domesticated fowl that can be found, the Tinamou!

Have people here domesticated them? Those eggs are stunning but I read in the wiki page that they fade with time? Do you have some of these birds?