Cream Legbar Laying Pink Eggs??

[Cyprus]

Brown is applied to white eggs like a spray from a can of spray paint. The blue egg gene is dominant to non blue (white)

Got it, thanks

 

[aart]

IIRC?

If I Remember Correctly.

Only blue eggs are blue on the inside.

Well, green eggs are too

 

[Cyprus]

If I Remember Correctly.

Well, green eggs are too

And Coturnix quail eggs

 

[aart]

And Coturnix quail eggs

All Coturnix quail are blue shelled?
I did not know that.

 

[Cyprus]

All Coturnix quail are blue shelled?
I did not know that.

Yup

 

[minifarmmom]

I'm thinking it goes something like this:
3 or more generations ago, there was a cross into Bielefelder
This would produce a green egg layer
Said Green layer is bred to a CCL carrying one white gene
Your hen inherits the white gene and the light brown gene which, together, would produce this egg

This also would allow for her to still be sex linked.

Thank you, that could seem like a possible outcome I dont know a lot about genetics, but that makes sense

 

[minifarmmom]

I don’t think feed can change it, but I’m just starting out and could be wrong.

Purple speckled and purple pink coated eggs? I’m going to have to a welsummers to my wish list! I haven’t seen any in my area, but that’s great!

My egg business start up I’m focusing on local and pretty eggs... I want to get the affluent “summer people” and tourists buying them. We had lots of people last summer trying to buy eggs, and barely enough to feed ourselves and the WWOOFers during the summer! Young people working hard have big appetites! Lol

Not sure how my 7 (out of 10 chicks) Sapphire boys are going to contribute... I keep winning the “Cockerel Lottery” it seems! I guess with private breeders things can be a bit of a crap shoot, but I’m sure even the best might have hiccups now and then!

Haha yes it can be a process. I finaly just started to get "regulars" to buy my eggs. Otherwise I usually had an over abundance! The purple eggs have been the coolest thing!! I dont have a good picture of the coated ones, but they are more common than my speckled ones

 

[Kris5902]

Haha yes it can be a process. I finaly just started to get "regulars" to buy my eggs. Otherwise I usually had an over abundance! The purple eggs have been the coolest thing!! I dont have a good picture of the coated ones, but they are more common than my speckled ones View attachment 1656552 View attachment 1656553

Neat pic!
I’d rather have too many than be turning people who are looking to buy away!
(Four tries to get it to say “neat” not “near”, ugh autocorrect hates me some nights!)

 

[Kris5902]

I'm thinking it goes something like this:
3 or more generations ago, there was a cross into Bielefelder
This would produce a green egg layer
Said Green layer is bred to a CCL carrying one white gene
Your hen inherits the white gene and the light brown gene which, together, would produce this egg

This also would allow for her to still be sex linked.

Makes a lot of sense. And if the “green layer” was a cock that looked mostly CCL or the Breeder got eggs from someone else and the cross wasn’t readily apparent... it makes sense that the breeder could be thinking they have pure stock, and then “surprise” looks like a legbar but lays pink pops up!

 

[GaryDean26]

I was stumped as to what chicken has been laying light pink eggs. But today I discovered that my cream legbar is most likely the culprit..and I am almost positive that she is a purebred since I hatched her myself and was autosexed like the other chicks hatched. What's going on here?
And a side note- I've also noticed that a lot of the pink eggs are usually bloody when cracked open- when there's been no time to incubate (cracked the same day as laid).

Yes, it is very likely your Cream Legbar that is laying the pink eggs. I get pink spots on some of my eggs with a blue base, but have never seen a completely pink eggs. I was wondering If I ever would. The was an article in the National Geographic in the September 1948 issue about "Easter Egg chickens". It was written about a man that had learned about the Blue Egg laying ear tuffed Araucana of South America from a 1927 National Geographic article (image from 1927 article below) and decided to get some.

He found some contacts in South America and to his dismay learned that it was nearly impossible to find the Blue Egg Laying ear tuffed birds any more because they had been nearly all crossed out to imported breeds. By a miracle he was able to get a few birds. He said one looked something like a barred rock cross and one was something like a RIR cross but that they did have ear tuffs so he breed them. After ten years of white eggs he notice eggs with a pale blue hue to them and started to type breed for the blue eggs. He was successful and ended up with blue eggs, green eggs, and pink eggs. There is a color enhanced photo in the 1948 National Geographic, but I can't find it posted on line. From what I have seen the pink is a coating that goes on the out side of the egg shell. It is present in all the Blue Egg breeds tracing back the South American origins. It is really rare in the Legbars, but much more common in the Araucana line in the USA.

Here is are egg photos from the Awesome Araucana Hatchery. They have been breeding their line of Araucana since the early 1970's. As you can see, they get quite a good representation of pink eggs.