Green Eggs vs Blue Eggs for A Premium Egg Business

[DarJones]

Remember that I have the zinc white gene (deliberately) in my birds. With zinc white, I will never get a green egg though it is possible I could select for darker tint and eventually breed out zinc white. Zinc white was only in the blue egg laying brown leghorn parent line. Wyandottes don't have it.

Egg color ranges from pure sky blue to light shades of sandy tan on top of blue. I'm gradually selecting in the direction of pure sky blue. None of them are glossy though they range from a slight frosted look to matte.

 

[nicalandia]

Remember that I have the zinc white gene (deliberately) in my birds. With zinc white, I will never get a green egg though it is possible I could select for darker tint and eventually breed out zinc white. Zinc white was only in the blue egg laying brown leghorn parent line. Wyandottes don't have it.

Egg color ranges from pure sky blue to light shades of sandy tan on top of blue. I'm gradually selecting in the direction of pure sky blue. None of them are glossy though they range from a slight frosted look to matte.

Do you have pictures of them? I believe that the Zinc mutation could be making them also matte colored. Zinc is also found on White Leghorns.

 

[NanaK]

I have Cream Legbars who lay blue. Their eggs do tend to lighten a bit as they progress through the lay cycle. They have a matte finish.

 

[DarJones]

This is a lousy contrast pic, mostly because I don't have good enough lighting to bring out the colors. These eggs were laid by hens ranging from 5 years old down to 1.5 years old. Look closely at the top center two eggs. The left has the sandy/tan tint residual from the porphyrin biopath. The right is very close to sky blue. One the right center is an egg that is lighter than the rest. This is from a 5 year old hen that I think has only 1 copy of oocyanin.

 

[NanaK]

I find blue eggs very difficult to accurately capture the color in photos.

 

[Iluveggers]

Agreed! This is robin’s egg blue…but looks so dull in my pic!

 

[nicalandia]

I find blue eggs very difficult to accurately capture the color in photos.

I believe the trick is to turn off the flash off from the camera.

 

[nicalandia]

This is a lousy contrast pic, mostly because I don't have good enough lighting to bring out the colors. These eggs were laid by hens ranging from 5 years old down to 1.5 years old. Look closely at the top center two eggs. The left has the sandy/tan tint residual from the porphyrin biopath. The right is very close to sky blue. One the right center is an egg that is lighter than the rest. This is from a 5 year old hen that I think has only 1 copy of oocyanin.

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Thanks for sharing

 

[NanaK]

I believe the trick is to turn off the flash off from the camera.

I agree but I still think I need more practice.

This photo was taken in bright light with no flash.

This one was taken in lower light with no flash.

 

[nicalandia]

I agree but I still think I need more practice.

This photo was taken in bright light with no flash.

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This one was taken in lower light with no flash.

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And that's how is done. Thanks for sharing..!