Green eggs, buff, red-sex links???

[JAA14]

I’ve posted my “buff orpingtons ” on here because that is not at all what they were after they started growing, as im new to the chicken life I didn’t realize at rural king. Everyone said they were definitely red-sex links! Easy enough, but the plot twist is, they are laying light green eggs?! Now I’m confused!! Help a girl out. The chicken that laid this egg is the very first chicken pictured.

 

[JedJackson]

I’ve posted my “buff orpingtons ” on here because that is not at all what they were after they started growing, as im new to the chicken life I didn’t realize at rural king. Everyone said they were definitely red-sex links! Easy enough, but the plot twist is, they are laying light green eggs?! Now I’m confused!! Help a girl out. The chicken that laid this egg is the very first chicken pictured.

I believe it's a starlight green egger. They can look a lot like red sex links but are a new strain of Easter eggers. Probably they are crosses with red sex links, which accounts for the similarity in appearance.

 

[Fluffy Lambs]

Wow. Who knows with all these new Easter eggers. You watched her lay it?

 

[Jenessa_096]

Interesting

 

[JedJackson]

It's really a shame that the hatcheries are making all these hybrids now. They are making it difficult to tell one breed from another, and as a result mistakes are happening all the time. I wish they would just stick to the main breeds and the sex linked hybrids only.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

She looks like a McMurray hatchery Whiting True Green.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

From the McMurray Website:

 

[JAA14]

Wow. Who knows with all these new Easter eggers. You watched her lay it?

I did! And she’s our only one laying so far.

 

[PoultryCQ]

It's really a shame that the hatcheries are making all these hybrids now. They are making it difficult to tell one breed from another, and as a result mistakes are happening all the time. I wish they would just stick to the main breeds and the sex linked hybrids only.

I know!! They just keep making random crosses and giving them a name. Now some hatcheries are even grouping EEs! Sapphire Eggers, Snowy Eggers, Olive Eggers and Moss Eggers. Really they are all just the 'mutts' of the chicken world.

 

[JAA14]

It's really a shame that the hatcheries are making all these hybrids now. They are making it difficult to tell one breed from another, and as a result mistakes are happening all the time. I wish they would just stick to the main breeds and the sex linked hybrids only.

Me too! It is very frustrating.