Green Eggs vs Blue Eggs for A Premium Egg Business

[nicalandia]

After you inject your hen, and she turns out to be the one hen out of six that responds to the solution by laying a super blue egg, how long will she lay those eggs before the effect wears off? Or will it wear off? Does it change the genetics of the chicken? Would a chick incubated from a super blue egg be viable and develop normally? Would it lay super blue eggs all on its own without getting a shot? How much do you think I could sell those for?

What an awesome idea! I have so many questions!!!

The results are clearly visible by the third day. Its not permanent, once the dose is not administered the hen will go back. Will longer treatment result in Darker blues? I suspect that it will not be much darker. It would be cool to see the results outside of a Chinese research lab. But I would like to see if its possible to administer it in the feed as oposed to inyections

 

[nicalandia]

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.

@DarJones Are you willing to test this on one of your hens and post pictures of before and after treatment? Do it for the science..!

 

[DarJones]

No thanks. I have enough projects that I don't want to add more to the mix.

 

[nicalandia]

No thanks. I have enough projects that I don't want to add more to the mix.

Injecting a saline/Hemin injection for three days to test a method to enhance the blue egg shell color on a single test hen means more projects?

Most people here lack Lateral/Inventive Thinking, most of the time I feel like I am talking to a wall. I might take a break from this site.

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

Injecting a saline/Hemin injection for three days to test a method to enhance the blue egg shell color on a single test hen means more projects?

I'm happy to do it if it helps and someone wants to send me the hemin. I think i need to backtrack through this thread again to find out why we're repeating this experiment for temporary results?

Sounds like the experiment would come from seeing if adding the hemin to FEED could replicate the results from the injections... it's that correct? So, we'd need 3 birds laying the same shade of blue egg: control, hemin feed, and hemin injections? Is there a chance that hemin could be produced in quantity at a more reasonable rate if it was found to be effective in feed?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Sounds like it would result in costly eggs to the consumer?

 

[DarJones]

Most people here lack Lateral/Inventive Thinking

It is not a matter of projects with chickens. I'm tied up starting plants for my business and won't have a spare minute for the next 5 months.

 

[Amer]

It is not a matter of projects with chickens. I'm tied up starting plants for my business and won't have a spare minute for the next 5 months.

Ooh! What kind of business?

 

[DarJones]

I grow and sell tomato and pepper seedlings. It is a small business I started about 20 years ago. selectedplants.com

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

I grow and sell tomato and pepper seedlings. It is a small business I started about 20 years ago. selectedplants.com

Wow, your selection is amazing! That's so cool! I do this too, but peppers, tomatoes and eggplants, and it's kind of secondary to my heirloom/OP seed business. I just always start waaaaay too many for my place so I wind up selling them off all spring while I sell seeds and chicks. We're at haikuheritagefarm.com