Cream Legbars

[RyeRanch]

I would say my legbar eggs are more matte than shiny.

 

[nicalandia]

Nicalandia---

What a question!!!! There is a type of paint in the USA called (you guessed it) eggshell ! It is a semi shiny type of paint that supposedly has the best of both. My hen's eggs were between an egg shell semi-shiny and matt but if I had to select one or the other I would say matte. Now I have to go look at the first egg I blew out and saved to see how exactly shiny the surface is. :O)

thanks for the feed back Chickat. I am aware of the paint, but there is a breeder of chilean mapuche stock that has breed many south american stock and has found that the shiny eggs is a recessive trait, there is also a translusent recessive gene not linked to this shiny egg that will enhanced the color of the blue eggs. if you want to read further check this link http://www.the-coop.org/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=107835&page=3

 

[nicalandia]

I didn't know geneticists even paid attention to matte vs. shiny-surfaced eggs!

we Do...

 

[nicalandia]

this UK Cream legbar eggs have the Mate finish



source http://www.trade-it.co.uk/bristol/farming-livestock/chickens/araucana/crested-cream-legbar-TT247NB57

 

[nicalandia]

Hey I believe I have found a pic of your first egg ChicKat.. what a nice looking egg, seeing how Mate is a dominant trait, I am not surprice to see that it is mate

Just love eggs---


And my latest one to start laying as of June 15th

First egg from my Cream Legbar........... a bird that I got from HighView Ranch in the Texas Hill country who got it from Greenfire Farms--- rare and unique, this breed will become more readily available in the USA as time goes on.

Hope you get a LOT of egg pictures in response to your question.

source https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/688871/pictures-of-eggs#post_9334257

 

[ChicKat]

Thanks for the info. This will take some digging IMO. I usually see people posting very shiny eggs, and think that they have rubbed the eggs with mineral oil. (that is one olden-days method of preserving eggs -- for I think I read up to 6-months for fresh use.)--- Now I wonder if they really were that shiny. Every day, I learn something NEW!

Yes, that is my Cream Legbar's very first. You can kind of see the refelction of the window that was behind me on the lower left qudrant if you divide the egg in quarters, and you can see the reflection of the overhead light on the top. Oh, and reflection on the bottom of the egg from the window on the left.

 

[GaryDean26]

Questions for you, and everyone:

1. How long do you wait before beginning to hatch pullet eggs? Do you go by egg size, a set amount of time, or a certain number of eggs? I need to get to a science library to see if there's any research on this.

2. What's the longest number of days you collect eggs before incubating them? I know there's research on length of waiting time vs. viability and will be looking for that as well.

3. Is it wise to hatch very small batches of chicks a week (or so) apart? I.e. if you had one hen and collected, say, 3 or 4 eggs over the course of a week. Would you wait for more eggs or just go ahead and set them?

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and experiences.

1) I remember that last summer someone that did some early hatches said that they wished they had waited until the eggs were at least 55g. So...take that for what ever it is worth. Some reference said to wait untill the hen had been laying for three months. If I only had one hen and one cockerel I would start collecting eggs after about 6 eggs for a "test hatch" just in case something happened to one or both of parents. After the "test hatch" I would sleep better at night an possible wait a will to start putting more eggs in.

2) The rule of thumb is to set eggs that are less than 10 days old. I have seen account of 14 out 16 hatch that were saved for 3 weeks and in December a lady shared results on a hatch from her four hens (not CLBs). It took her 3 weeks to collect 48 eggs to fill her incubator. Those set in the first 10 days were a high 80% hatch rate. Those 11-15 days old were mid 50% as were the eggs stored 16-21 days.

3) It is a lot easier to compare birds of the same age, so if you can hatch all that you want in one batch that is best. If you only you want to maximize hatch rate, then I would set eggs every week (provided you have the means to do so). If I wanted to get the largest group possible to hatch, I would wait for three weeks. Last year I set eggs at 10 days which we figured was the largest hatch possible with out dropping the hatch rate.

 

[nicalandia]

Thanks for the info. This will take some digging IMO. I usually see people posting very shiny eggs, and think that they have rubbed the eggs with mineral oil. (that is one olden-days method of preserving eggs -- for I think I read up to 6-months for fresh use.)--- Now I wonder if they really were that shiny. Every day, I learn something NEW!

Yes, that is my Cream Legbar's very first. You can kind of see the refelction of the window that was behind me on the lower left qudrant if you divide the egg in quarters, and you can see the reflection of the overhead light on the top. Oh, and reflection on the bottom of the egg from the window on the left.

oh I forgot to be more specific. the shiny egg gene is an autosomal gene(no sex linked) and is a different gene from the blue egg gene O. so one can have shiny white eggs and shiny brown eggs. or mate eggs..

 

[1muttsfan]

There are only 2 eggshell colors, blue and white. Brown is color layed on the outer part of the eggshell. Green eggs are blue shells with brown pigment on the outside.

Color is often in the eye of the observer. What may appear blue to one person may appear blue-green to another.

 

[nicalandia]

There are only 2 eggshell colors, blue and white. Brown is color layed on the outer part of the eggshell. Green eggs are blue shells with brown pigment on the outside.

Color is often in the eye of the observer. What may appear blue to one person may appear blue-green to another.

I am well aware of this, whats your question about?