diff colored eggs from same chicken??

[AmyLynn2374]

I can so imagine THAT conversation!

I'm in the same situation with my pullets right now. I need to weed out the brown layers and keep the blue/green/olive layers. I'm planning to separate them one at a time in a dog kennel to find out for sure.

Am I the only one that preferes the brown eggs over the green? LOL

 

[Aphrael]

Am I the only one that preferes the brown eggs over the green? LOL

I like them all. But right now I have my general layers mixed in with the Lavender Orpingtons, with only a Lavender Orp roo. So I will have pure lav orps. However, some of the general layers have eggs that are way too similar to the orps in size and color, so I don't know for sure which ones to incubate. When I finally get all the property fenced, I'll be building more enclosures and coops. Then I'll be able to keep my pure breeds separate and can have a rainbow of colors in my eating eggs. Because lots of colors makes me happy.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Once I get my set up going and see if the "chicken life" is definitly for me, I'd like to think about having a mix coop and run and a purebred coop and run, and get a couple good pure pairs. I'm really interested in the show girls. They fascinate me for some reason.

 

[tntchix]

I’ve also heard of putting lipstick on a vent, but I certainly have not tried that. No way do I try to explain to my wife why I’m putting lipstick on a hen’s vent. Nope, no way. Not me.

just no!

 

[BuffOrps15]

Ameraucana's, the easter egg chicken will lay different colored eggs.

 

[enola]

Ameraucana's, the easter egg chicken will lay different colored eggs.

Ameraucanas lay blue or blueish-green eggs. Easter eggers lay all of the different shades of green and blue eggs. However no breed of chicken can lay a different colored egg each time she lays.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Ameraucana's, the easter egg chicken will lay different colored eggs.

Two different things, actually - Ameraucana being an actual, true breed which lay blue eggs and Easter Eggers which are mixed breed birds with blue egg laying parentage which may or may not lay blue/green eggs

 

[gimmie birdies]

My lavender frizzle hen was the combo of



This splash roo whom I think had a green egg gene...




and this splash hen who layed pink eggs.


the the pinky-purple egg in the lower right corner

that is the kind of egg the frizzle hen came from today she layed the gray egg to the right.

 

[Aphrael]

pretty eggies!

 

[gimmie birdies]

Thank you!