Easter Egger club!

[manjari108]

Smart, thanks! I think I'll do that in the sunlight tomorrow!

 

[summerb123]

I finally got the first EE egg! 33 weeks! It's hard to tell if it is more green or more blue. The lighting makes it look different.

congrats!

 

[Sylvester017]

I finally got the first EE egg! 33 weeks! It's hard to tell if it is more green or more blue. The lighting makes it look different.

If you manage to catch the egg as soon as its layed it will look more bluish -- as it sits on the counter for an hour or two or a day you'll notice it starts looking sage. I thought I was hallucinating but others have said they noticed their blue eggs turning greenish later -- oxidation or some other phenomenon?

 

[summerb123]

 

[manjari108]

If you manage to catch the egg as soon as its layed it will look more bluish -- as it sits on the counter for an hour or two or a day you'll notice it starts looking sage. I thought I was hallucinating but others have said they noticed their blue eggs turning greenish later -- oxidation or some other phenomenon?

That makes sense, my 2 brown layers have a very slight difference in color, but after awhile, they are easier to tell apart. Thanks!

 

[FlyWheel]

Quote: @manjari108: I would say greenish. That is unless magenta is your normal skin color!

@Sylvester017: You are not hallucinating, I've seen it too. Of the seven "EE pullets" I got last April, only one (Muffins) lays a green egg, and it is noticeably green. However after a day, even when kept in the fridge it will pale significantly.What's even weirder is when I bake the shells before grinding them to give back to the chickens, is how the inside will change from blue to white, yet the outside will stay the same shade of green!

 

[manjari108]

Lol @FlyWheel ! We did decide it looks more greenish. My daughter ate it this morning. I'm going to get a picture of the next one in the sunlight.

 

[Sylvester017]

@manjari108: I would say greenish. That is unless magenta is your normal skin color!

@Sylvester017: You are not hallucinating, I've seen it too. Of the seven "EE pullets" I got last April, only one (Muffins) lays a green egg, and it is noticeably green. However after a day, even when kept in the fridge it will pale significantly.What's even weirder is when I bake the shells before grinding them to give back to the chickens, is how the inside will change from blue to white, yet the outside will stay the same shade of green!

Our Blue Wheaten Ameraucana layed the prettiest light blue eggs - not bright or dark but definitely a sky blue. An hour or two on the kitchen counter and it started to look sage mint! I had to take photos of her eggs asap or they would change/oxidize color in just a few hours.

When I baked her shells the inside blue shell turned pure white while the outside shell turned to a light tan/sage.

It's good to share these experiences so that others don't think they are hallucinating too

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[Chicken5555]

I had a BLUE... pure blue... egg with lavender spots o it. Then, after being in the fridge over night, it turned olive with brown spots. I thought I was seeing things!

 

[Sylvester017]

I had a BLUE... pure blue... egg with lavender spots o it. Then, after being in the fridge over night, it turned olive with brown spots. I thought I was seeing things!

Take pictures asap of the blue eggs before they oxidize! I put blue eggs into the fridge and got sage eggs out! This photo was one of the rare times I got a good shot of a newly layed Blue Wheaten Ameraucana egg along with tinted pink Buff Leghorn eggs for contrast.