Egg color

[Ravenlover]

I have heard that eggs that are blue inside are from hens that carry one copy of the celadon gene. I have no idea if it’s true, the person I bought my celadon eggs from said the few spotted eggs she sent with the blue would be blue inside, and they were. Of the 6 spotted eggs I received, 4 hatched. One chick died, 2 slipped their bands and one is still banded. If the banded one is a hen, I’ll let you know what color her eggs are

Someone also suggested those could be full celadon eggs and that there is a separate gene responsible for painting or not painting the egg, however if that were the case you would think we would start to see cream colored eggs with no paint job, but maybe they have a dependent relationship, where no paint can only be expressed if they also have the celadon gene.

The long and the short of it in that thread was no one was sure, if I remember correctly.

Please do let us all know if her eggs come out blue outside too cuz i read about the double celadon thing too im curious

 

[FloorCandy]

Please do let us all know if her eggs come out blue outside too cuz i read about the double celadon thing too im curious

Bandy was a male, he attended freezer camp, but there are 2 unbanded reds that came from Normal eggs that were blue inside, I have 3 reds left, 2 female, 1 male, both females lay blue eggs, so at least one of them came out of a spotty egg but lays normal blues. This would support that the hen who layed them was a carrier, bred to a full celadon roo, and statistically half would be celadons, half would be carriers. I have my red male in with celadon layers, I will see if his female offspring lay blue in a few months.