Gray eggs

[gimmie birdies]

The purple egg layer was this pretty bird I got from a lady that was moving. I still don't know what she is. Just a splash as far as I know. Med. sized.

 

[eagrbeavr]

I love the gray egg!!

 

[eagrbeavr]

Ugh please dont inbreed just to get an egg color you want. Just my opinion and not meaning to start a *thing* on here, but inbreeding for any reason is just poor ethical breeding.

 

[gimmie birdies]

gunna do what I am gunna do!

actually some will be cousins, not too related.

 

[enola]

They are chickens. As long as the parents of the cross are healthy, many breeders inbreed chickens. There is absolutely nothing morally or ethically wrong with breeding chickens that are related.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I would agree. I don't have alot of birds and have not done any inbreeding, there is a possiblity with these...

I gave their parents to a lady as eggs, she gave me back the egg's eggs. They may have inbreed, or the other roo at their farm may be the dad.. where is Maurie Povich when you need him?

 

[Finnie]

The purple egg layer was this pretty bird I got from a lady that was moving. I still don't know what she is. Just a splash as far as I know. Med. sized.

Could she be a langshan? I think those come in blue-black-splash, don't they? And are said to sometimes have a purplish bloom to their brown eggs? I think splashes are beautiful.

 

[gimmie birdies]

She has clean legs. I think she is just a mutt.

 

[enola]

I have a hen that lays a 'grey' egg. Not quite as deeply colored as yours, but it appears grey when compared to blue, green or brown eggs. My hen is a mutt from cuckoo Marans, Araucana and silver laced Wyandotte background.

Bred to an Araucana rooster, all of her pullets laid different shades of green.

So, I would guess the brown shell gene plays a part in the grey shell color.

 

[gimmie birdies]

You are so right enola, there is a cuckoo maran in there some where I am sure.