I got a brown egg with white polka-dots! PICTURE

[gritsar]

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Hens are very good at regulating their calcium intake. Rather than put it in their food, I would just make a container of oyster shell available to them and let them help themselves.

 

[jaboo81]

How do you blow it out?

 

[SheeReno]

Nice eggs! Can eggs with those spots be eaten?

 

[gritsar]

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Most definitely.

ETA: I occasionally get an egg like that. Most of the time my girls that "decorate" their eggs with spots use purple "paint".

 

[Mandalina]

pretty eggie!

 

[fowltemptress]

Gorgeous egg! Those fancy schmancy marans got nothin' on your hen.

My mother has two hens that consistently lay eggs like those. This Christmas I got some white snowflake rub-ons and made Christmas ornaments . . . the white spots on the egg made it look even more gorgeous because they looked like more snow. I wish I had a hen that laid eggs like that.

 

[GreenGoddess]

Wow! I just got my first "speckled" egg yesterday and then another today but they are just teeny tiny little spots.. nothing like yours!! Very pretty!!! And since it goes along with the calcium painted eggs, I do have one question..

I put ground egg shells out free choice for my girls but everytime I refill it, the ROOSTER is the first one to go after it!! Is this just his way of "checking it" to make sure it's a good thing for the girls or what?? Has anyone else noticed that?


Goddess

 

[gritsar]

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I'd say yes. My roo is the first to check any food or oyster shell I put out. He then starts clucking to call the girls to eat. I've never seen him actually swallow a piece of the oyster shell, but doubt it would hurt him if he did eat it.

 

[tdgill]

anyway, you'd notice a lack of calcium in their eggs shells being soft or thin before you'd ever have to worry about it in their bones - correct?

 

[bigstack]

I bought some JG hatching eggs. (48) One has freckles. It is a regular LRG brown egg with darker freckle spots all over it. Could that be calcium aswell? wouldn't it be white? or are the spots brown because the egg is brown? I guess that would make sense. I'm still learning.

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