First EE egg! plus...egg with "heavy bloom"?

[mintdeer]

I'm so excited, this morning's egg collection was a surprise: one of our Easter Eggers laid her first egg and it's a beautiful blue-green! Even more exciting, she's the first pullet from our latest batch to lay! She's 25 weeks old and I know EEs can take a while to lay so I was expecting her to be one of the last. Now just waiting on the others...one other EE, a Buff Orpington and Black Australorp (all 25 weeks) and two Silver-Laced Wyandottes (26 weeks). They all have had pretty bright red combs/wattles for a while now so I'm hoping it's soon!

Also, this pinkish egg is from one of our older girls (about 33 weeks) who just recently started laying consistently, and all her eggs look like this. I'm assuming it's a "heavy bloom" as it feels very waxy and when you wash it off, the egg is dark brown. Anyone have experience with this before? Will all her eggs be like that or does it change?

 

[Jabebee13]

Very happy and eggcited for you.

 

[RevlisRemmah]

Gorgeous pink egg!!! I don’t have an answer for you. I think I read the bloom is heaviest in the beginning of the cycle and usually only gets lighter, not darker. What kind of chicken is it?

 

[Jabebee13]

25 week Easter egger....

 

[KarynVA]

Gorgeous eggs! Almost too pretty to eat.

 

[ackie]

oh my god they are SO pretty. I agree they're almost too pretty to eat. Have you ever done arts & crafts with eggshells? more or less you poke a teeny hole in each end and blow the egg out the hole. I'm sure theres more to it but I havent done it in years. And then you have a hollow egg that wont rot.

 

[cherrynberry]

I'm so excited, this morning's egg collection was a surprise: one of our Easter Eggers laid her first egg and it's a beautiful blue-green! Even more exciting, she's the first pullet from our latest batch to lay! She's 25 weeks old and I know EEs can take a while to lay so I was expecting her to be one of the last. Now just waiting on the others...one other EE, a Buff Orpington and Black Australorp (all 25 weeks) and two Silver-Laced Wyandottes (26 weeks). They all have had pretty bright red combs/wattles for a while now so I'm hoping it's soon!

Also, this pinkish egg is from one of our older girls (about 33 weeks) who just recently started laying consistently, and all her eggs look like this. I'm assuming it's a "heavy bloom" as it feels very waxy and when you wash it off, the egg is dark brown. Anyone have experience with this before? Will all her eggs be like that or does it change?

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I also have a hen that lays an almost pink egg but once washed it is brown...she is a golden comet

 

[Sally PB]

Congratulations! What pretty eggs!

more or less you poke a teeny hole in each end and blow the egg out the hole.

I did this with the very first egg I got. It's not easy to poke a hole in an eggshell, I found. Be very gentle, and if someone will hold the egg for you, that will help. Then I took a straightened out paper clip to "scramble" the egg inside the shell. Blowing the contents out took some doing; it was a tiny egg -- 17 grams. I finally held a straw over the hole and blew through the straw to get enough air pressure to get the white and yolk out.

I still have the shell. I smile whenever I see it.

 

[CluckerFamily]

Congratulations!! First eggs are so egg-citing!!

 

[RevlisRemmah]

25 week Easter egger....

Sorry I meant the one who lays the pink egg! The blue/green EE egg is gorgeous too!!!