Green Eggs vs Blue Eggs for A Premium Egg Business

[BigBlueHen53]

Moms are the greatest!

 

[FunClucks]

I would appreciate if you posted pictures of the eggs. Thanks.

Here's a few pictures of Prairie bluebell and starlight green egger eggs, but the lighting is bad in most of them (indoor at night). Sizes and shapes are visible though. Will try again tomorrow in better lighting.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/january-2023-hatch-a-long.1557500/post-26448445

 

[nicalandia]

Thanks to the Arkansas Blue thread, I can get an idea how the blues will look for hens that have been laying for a while(not pullets)

 

[nicalandia]

Also a Blue egg from a Arkansas Blue Pullet(on the right), Arkansas Hen(on left) and Olive egger on bottom

 

[nicalandia]

More data from The Arkansas Blue Breed.

Hens at different laying age(left is a first week young hen/pullet)

 

[FunClucks]

Also a Blue egg from a Arkansas Blue Pullet(on the right), Arkansas Hen(on left) and Olive egger on bottom

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I'm getting Prairie Bluebell eggs the color of the top egg (4/6 layers) and the color of the egg on the right (1/6 layers). All my hens are 8-9 months old.

 

[nicalandia]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/the-ask-anything-to-nicalandia-thread.1509343/post-26333220

I believe I just found what caused that blue egg to be that blue.

"After injection with hemin solution, one hen in the treatment group laid a very blue egg, and the content of biliverdin in this shell increased to about 3.1 times as compared with before injection of hemin solution. At the same time, the expression level of HO-1 mRNA in the shell gland of this treated hen laid a very blue egg was about 3.0 times the control hens"

https://www.semanticscholar.org/pap...Zhao/539114c21222ec69acd693e19379807c03bd0907


We need someone with hens that lay blue eggs and start treatment(only 3 days) and see just how deep blue we can get.

 

[NanaK]

I would love to see the inside of that shell. I wonder if it is the same shade?

 

[NagemTX]

Wow, those are some interesting studies.

 

[nicalandia]

Who wants to be the first to test this on one of their blue egger? If not IV, perhaps a few mg on Diet?