Egg color

[LaurenRitz]

I always thought that a green egg must have a blue foundation, but this one is obviously white. No sign of blue.

Not sure how this is possible. Are there breeds that lay green with a white base? Or could blue fade out to this level and still be green on the outside?

 

[FunClucks]

Peel the inside membrane off the inside of the shell. Then place the inside shell right on top of a page of super white printer paper. Look at it in different lighting conditions. You will probably see it is very faintly blue. I had one blue layer you couldn't tell was blue unless I put her eggs into bright white egg cartons. Those white egg cartons are twice the price of the gray ones, in case anyone cares. I was ticked I had to pay for the higher priced egg cartons to show my eggs to best advantage.

 

[LaurenRitz]

Very interesting. Against the paper I can tell it's not white, but it's so faintly colored that I can't tell what color it is.

Every other green egg has been visibly blue on the inside.

 

[FunClucks]

Very interesting. Against the paper I can tell it's not white, but it's so faintly colored that I can't tell what color it is.

Every other green egg has been visibly blue on the inside.

Yeah, occasionally, there will be a blue egger whose eggs are just barely blue. In my bird's case, she was a prairie bluebell, and I think white leghorn was in that hatchery mix somewhere. The zinc white gene from white leghorns can cause the blue color to be a lot fainter. If I had bred her to my brown egger rooster, I'd have expected something similar to what you're seeing. I didn't want that, so I didn't breed her.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

That is a very pretty egg, whatever her breeding is.

 

[LaurenRitz]

The hen belongs to my sister. She's a BYM of some kind.

 

[LaurenRitz]

I set it against a white eggshell and the blue popped.