Green eggs and ham

[ruth]

I've just added another dozen of my new green eggs to the incubator. I'm waiting to see if those already in there are fertile or not and then what will hatch and then what color egg will it lay? I got these "olive eggs" by crossing a blue/green egg laying EE hen with a Black Copper Marans roo. The young pullets that just started laying these look like Blue Copper Marans - some with a muff and some without. Of course, they are not true Blue Copper Marans so I call them my "Olive Eggers"

It will be fun when the grandkids start coming around (one just born two weeks ago) and I can read "Green Eggs and Ham" to them and pull out a few green eggs to cook up. I remember when I read it to my kids and cooked some eggs and added green food color - it did NOT go over well. They looked putrid and I couldn't blame the kids for not eating them. Maybe this newest technique will go over better.

 

[huntinwidow]

Very cool eggs. Lets see the hens.

 

[ruth]

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Here's some of them:

 

[Paganbird]

What a colorful basket of eggs!!
I also like the last pic... "running hen" - I love to watch my hens run!

We have all brown egg layers, but we used to have a couple EEs that would lay green eggs. My daughter thought nothing of it... she thought all eggs were brown & green. (She's now 4 years old.)
She was visiting my mom once (when she was 3) and wouldn't eat the eggs because they were grocery store white eggs. She thought they were "old" eggs. Then she told Meemaw that "they don't even tast like eggs!"
That's my girl!!

 

[pbjmaker]

Ruth - you have me soooo excited for my new little chick. It is also an EEhen X BCM roo that came from a super dark egg. It is only a couple weeks old but I sooooo want it to be a pullet. She looks like she will be solid black at this point.

That is the color of egg I'm hoping for.

May they all be fertile for you.

 

[Mahlzeit]

Wow I love those green eggs!! I want a hen who lays them too.

 

[Wynette]

Hey, Ruth, I have one of them that looks like a blue copper marans, as well! She's called Sweetie:

I just love her!

 

[skeeter9]

Those eggs are beautiful, Ruth! Nice job with your Oliver Eggers!!!!

 

[Goose and Fig]

Those are great eggs- and the hens are beautiful! I can't wait to make my own olive eggers- but I'm going to try Penedesenca x EE.

 

[Break an Egg]

So pretty, love the egg colors!! Thanks for sharing.