I'm Not Colorblind, But..

[NorthernHomestead]

Okay. I have some hens that came from blue eggs in January from a neighbor. They JUST started laying yesterday. I don't question the color of their eggs. This is a side-by-side photo. If a new chicken keeper thought the other might be blue, you wouldn't think they were crazy. It's close.

The one on the right is undeniably blue in person. Not a bold robin's egg, but definitely blue. It was so sweet to find two of them in the coop yesterday (yes, two - two of the blue layers started laying on the same day).

 

[500Chickens]

Do you have pics?

 

[NorthernHomestead]

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Look at the posts. I threw a few up. And my original posts asked people not to ask because of so many factors.

 

[NorthernHomestead]

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And your photo looks closer to the color of the egg in question. Not the two hens that just started laying true blue eggs. A neighbor gifted me eggs that she said were Ameraucana, but it was a lot of ten eggs and they weren't all blue. I did NOT correct her (she charged me NOTHING for them when egg prices at the grocery store were nuts), but I knew they weren't since Ameraucana's are pricey and they always lay blue. Alas, the two hens that came from blue eggs *look* more like them (black feet and such) and lay blue eggs.

She called all of them Ameraucana though, so I wouldn't try to say those hens are. I just wanted blue eggs.

 

[NorthernHomestead]

Further, BO chickens lay light brown eggs. Most look pink right now. Most of the eggs from the coop look like you could paint a room in those hues and it would work. My new blue layers stand RIGHT out in the basket. It's almost obnoxious.

 

[NorthernHomestead]

If you want to dive further down the rabbit hole...

On the bottom is the original hen's egg. Above that is her x BO (the only roo's available for fertilization at the time) the third is her x this:

Who I still think is a BFCM x BO mix. And the top one is the true blue egg for the hatched hen from my neighbor gifted egg. X-)

 

[NorthernHomestead]

This is the variety I want.

 

[Minanora]

My prairie Blue Bell pullet laid her first egg today.


Apparently they could get more blue as she lays more, though I doubt that; but here's a daylight photo of her egg in the middle, next to a fake green egg and a brown soe egg.

FYI: I have 4 SOE hens, none of them lay olive eggs. Only one of my 6 original soe hens laid green eggs.

This is my first blue egg layer but her egg is slightly darker blue than my friends americana eggs.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Very pretty! Er, whst is SOE? I know what OE is, but the S is new to me.

 

[I Love Feather Babies]

Here are my EE eggs. They have recently started laying. Hopefully they will get bigger. There is a white egg on bottom right to compare with the one above it. It does have a slight color to it. I love the color of these eggs.