Cream Legbar Laying Pink Eggs??

[minifarmmom]

Did you actually see it come right out of her vent...
....or was she just in the nest where you found the egg?
Because that surely does look like a pure CCL.

I literally saw it come out!

 

[Kris5902]

She is a blue (blue splash?) Copper maran

Thanks. Mine were supposed to be Black Copper Marans... but the breeder also has Blue and I think the eggs got mixed up In my order. Did she produce the darker brown egg in your 3rd pic? They are both very pretty girls!

 

[minifarmmom]

Thanks. Mine were supposed to be Black Copper Marans... but the breeder also has Blue and I think the eggs got mixed up In my order. Did she produce the darker brown egg in your 3rd pic? They are both very pretty girls!

Yes it was her or my other blue copper hen. They are by far my favorite birds. Super friendly! I also have a black copper maran hen and I like the blues better!

 

[aart]

I literally saw it come out!

That's crazy...I'd be bummed.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

I’m still not sold that this Legbar laid a pink egg. Never heard anything like this happening.

 

[Kris5902]

What if both the parents were impure and carried a recessive brown gene, but they otherwise presented as CCL? Could that be what happened? Asking, not suggesting that’s what happened... I don’t know enough about egg color genetics

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

What if both the parents were impure and carried a recessive brown gene, but they otherwise presented as CCL? Could that be what happened? Asking, not suggesting that’s what happened... I don’t know enough about egg color genetics

That could very well be possible but the Legbar has been in the US for some time now and if the breed needed revitalizing they would either bring in new Legbars or cross to Brown Leghorns and then cross back to Legbars.

 

[Kris5902]

The breeder you got the eggs from might not even be aware of it... it would (correct me if I’m wrong here, because I’m more familiar with cows and snakes!) only show up if both parents had the trait and even then only happen in a smaller percentage of the chicks.

Back crossing one generation is how we found out our old bull carried the genes for horns, though all our herd is polled (hornless and a dominant gene) when bred to his daughter we had offspring with scurrs, not horns but little horn butts in 1 out of 3 calves (we have changed the bull, it was temporarily while we found a replacement, and we really wanted to keep his daughter for breeding, and all their offspring went to the freezer)

 

[Kris5902]

The pink eggs are kind of cool though! I’m looking at getting some CCL hatching eggs or chicks this spring... thanks for the thread, it’s really interesting.

 

[minifarmmom]

That's crazy...I'd be bummed.

I guess I'm not super bummed since it adds some pretty color to my egg basket but it does make me question the other hens I got from her as well. I have quite a few legbar hens but only a couple from that hatch.
Do you know if feed can change color of eggs? Because I also have welsummers that lay purple speckled and purple/pink coated eggs..I really don't think it does..