Egg Colors. I know you guys have an array of colored eggs....

[Brunty_Farms]

So, I'm working on getting hens that lay colored eggs. Not just brown, but all of them. Love the various shades of greens, blues, dark browns, and even whites. If you can post pictures of your hens eggs, who has the most diversity in color? Show not only the pictures but say the breeds of hens that laid them.

Right now, I have Easter Eggers and Red Sex links. I'm wanting to add some Leghorns, some kind of really dark brown egg layers, some blue and olive, and some creme. What breeds would fit that bill?

See all I have is brown and I think a good way to really make people talk about our eggs is to add some color. At the moment I have some EE that are about 12 weeks old that should be laying soon. So I would love to see the array of colors you guys have!

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

Here are ours.
EEs, Cms, Cochins and RIRs

One thing, your EEs may not lay for a long time. Ours did not start untill 9 months.
I think there is a huge amount of variety in egglaying age with that "breed".

 

[jojo54]

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OMG! How many chickens do you have to have that many eggs?

 

[Brunty_Farms]

OMG... 9 months??? That's 36 weeks!! Wow... I hope mine lay at 20-24 weeks... I'm going to put light on them when they are 17 weeks. Which will be soon. Those, eggs are really cool.... the green ones are from the EE's?

Layers that laid those... 400 or so. I'm trying to get up to 1,000 I'm wanting about 700 of the sex links and the rest in other hens so I can have a mix of colors.

 

[NancyinAlaska]

mine are all colors!

 

[Cats Critters]

I don't have many pictures of eggs, but I get a couple shades of brown (RIRs, BRs, BAs,CMs), a couple shades of green from EEs and EE-mixes, and white from white Leghorns. Here's a picture of some of my green eggs:

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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What strain of sex-links do you have? We started light stimulating ours at 17 weeks and they were at 50% at 20-21 weeks, and at 95% a few weeks after that. You have to watch their weight, you don't want them to start laying too early. For ours, they were recommended to be at least 3 lbs on average before stimulating them to lay.

 

[Tala]

There's a thread called "Sexy egg thread" or something like that, it's all pictures of eggs

 

[Brunty_Farms]

Honestly, I think they are mixed strains in my flock. I got them from Moyers, some are lighter with more white in them and some are almost solid red.

The sex links were already started, 17 weeks when we got them, however they were really light like you said. I don't think they started laying until 22 weeks. They peaked at about 26 weeks at 90+% Now that winter is here they are at around 70% with lights, little low but I'm new with the lighting thing.

So I shouldn't light the EE's, these are the ones that are currently only 12 weeks or so ( I would have to look at the hatch date). I was thinking about waiting until they were full grown before they started to lay, which should be 20 weeks. I didn't know the light would induce premature laying... I just wanted them to get used to the light a few weeks early.

 

[Brunty_Farms]

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Cool... that's what I was looking for... I tried searching for it... but the last thing I thought about looking up was "Sexy EGG Thread"