Extreme Speckly Egg contest!!! Winner receives 2011 BYC calendar!!!

[alicefelldown]

I do not, because I do not wash my eggs. However, mineral oil has been used for decades by people that do. A lot of factory eggs that are rinsed in a chlorine bath are then coated with mineral oil 'to replace the bloom' before being packed into cartons.

 

[Kansaseq]

I use mineral oil; gives them a nice sheen.

 

[geebs]

I didn't see where it said you couldn't enter twice... Gotta try...

Well and maybe I am biased... oh heck... we all know I am!!!!

It was dark speckley and it hatched out a fuzzy... I think that makes it EXTRA CUTE.... Nothing like a fuzzy spotted egg!!! THe spots are really dark and kinda hard to see.. This is the only picture I could find of it.

The hen was 2 years old, marans and a picture of her.

 

[Braclin]

Here's my speckled egg. Not anything fantastic,but i'm proud of it. Came from my 6mo. old Buff Orpington.

 

[pinkchick]

Quote:
I was thinking the same thing!

I love the speckly eggs! There's got to be more out there...........

 

[pinkchick]

Braclin~

Lucky you! I have never got a speckled egg from one of my Buffs!

 

[pinkchick]

I just ran across a photo of an egg that I would like to share with all of my speckled egg lovin' friends here. I am not posting this photo to be judged, just for fun.

(Wynette, if I should have posted this somewhere else just

me now and I can move it to where appropriate.

)

This was given to me last year by one of my Welsummer hens who may have had some sort of fungal issue going on as her earlobes turned white for about a week and so did her eggs. Center of photo. Crazy, but it was pretty!

 

[Wynette]

WOW! White earlobes = white speckly egg? Interesting! I'll post a few more speckly egg pics I have just for fun shortly!

 

[3goodeggs]

Yes, that is some white speckled-y egg! so cool.

could you get the girls to do a pink one?

 

[megshenhut]

Here are my favorite speckly eggs.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/2760_dsc02178.jpg

The hen is an ee/ buff orp/ welsummer mix that I hatched last summer. She is 14 months old. And her eggs always look like this. The small one is her 1st one after her molt. The bigger one she laid yesterday.

I don't have a pic of her.