Guinea egg?

[Athiena14]

is the lighter one a guinea egg? I think the other one is but not sure about the lighter one. I ordered chicken and guinea eggs togethrt

 

[Athiena14]

 

[R2elk]

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The shape and size is right for a guineas egg.

 

[MGG]

Looks like a young guinea's egg. When my girl was first gearing up, they looked like that. As she matured they started to look more uniform.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Both look like guinea eggs to me. Most of mine lay eggs that look like the top one, but a couple lay smooth pink eggs.

 

[BennieAnTheJets]

Looks like a Coral Blue Guinea egg to me.

Our Buff dundottes have dark speckled eggs, our Pearl Gray have dark and light eggs - it varies - and our Coral Blues have light colored eggs without specks, like your second one. As a rule.

 

[R2elk]

Looks like a Coral Blue Guinea egg to me.

Our Buff dundottes have dark speckled eggs, our Pearl Gray have dark and light eggs - it varies - and our Coral Blues have light colored eggs without specks, like your second one. As a rule.

My Coral Blues lay the same color eggs as all the rest do (dark speckled eggs). On an occasion, there is a light colored egg toward the end of the season when the "ink" is running low.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Looks like a Coral Blue Guinea egg to me.

Our Buff dundottes have dark speckled eggs, our Pearl Gray have dark and light eggs - it varies - and our Coral Blues have light colored eggs without specks, like your second one. As a rule.

That’s interesting because my two hens that lay the pink eggs with little stippling are the slate and pastel hens, both with no dotting on their feathers!

 

[BennieAnTheJets]

For what it's worth, the hatchery gave me the clues first. I got a box of each Pearl Gray, Buff Dundotte, and Coral Blue and promptly mixed them up and called the hatchery. I thought the light color eggs where from the light color birds (Buff Dundotte) but they said no, the light color shells are more likely to come from the Coral Blues, and that seems to be true for me. Buff Dundotte shells seem to be very dark and Pearl Gray can be either way. Not always, but on average.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

For what it's worth, the hatchery gave me the clues first. I got a box of each Pearl Gray, Buff Dundotte, and Coral Blue and promptly mixed them up and called the hatchery. I thought the light color eggs where from the light color birds (Buff Dundotte) but they said no, the light color shells are more likely to come from the Coral Blues, and that seems to be true for me. Buff Dundotte shells seem to be very dark and Pearl Gray can be either way. Not always, but on average.

Interesting! I started idly musing this summer on whether feather dotting is related to the stippling pattern that most guinea eggs have...