Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

[pbjmaker]

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I get eggs like that on occasion too. In fact just got one today.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

I have an egg like that too. Its from a BCM. Not sure if the same one lays it everytime or it's just a fluky thing that happens with them all on occasion. It has the chocolate color under a whitish coating which disappears when wet then reappears when dry. It does not wash off. My question to any experts out there, if it is from the same hen on a regular basis should she be culled to the "eating egg" pen? Is it an undesirable trait for the breeding pen? What causes it?

 

[drom]

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Well, they can all lay an egg like that from time to time, it's not a reason to relegate them to the lay pen.

 

[drom]

Ok here it is-it will be for sale in the U.S. :

http://www.jmtdistributors.com/r-com-50-digital-egg-incubator-quot-coming-soonqu50.html

If I were a Mad Hatcher, I would totally want it

 

[drom]

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Oooo. I've never gotten a purple one before. When mine have a coating, it is usually a powdery cream color and sometimes it will scratch off like powder on the surface and the dark egg coating is underneath. I think I've gotten a couple like yours where it looks normal when it is wet and dries with the light coating.

Pretty, pretty eggs.

 

[nivtup]

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Oooo. I've never gotten a purple one before. When mine have a coating, it is usually a powdery cream color and sometimes it will scratch off like powder on the surface and the dark egg coating is underneath. I think I've gotten a couple like yours where it looks normal when it is wet and dries with the light coating.

Pretty, pretty eggs.

We get them too!

Not quite so lavendery (new word) however they are quite similar. We ave never had one of them be fertile though, we have tried to hatch them.

 

[kathyinmo]

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It looks mauve colored. Is it mauve, or lavender? Whatever it is .... I like it!

Isn't it funny, that it is only like one in ten times that she lays that!

 

[pinkchick]

My splash hen lays an egg like that everyday, I can not wash it off, it dries back to the same chalky purplish color. Normally her egg is a nice purplish color but yesterdays egg takes the cake....here it is next to her sisters egg, you can see through the scratches on the egg that it is a nice color underneath.

 

[cottagegarden]

You are so set for Easter-you can scratch ittle designs on it (0:
That's the sort of fun egg my kids love to find.
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[Wynette]

Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one that has a hen that thinks she's funny now & then...the coating on these doens't wash off like the typical brown pigment will if you rub. I've not cracked any of them to check for fertility, as we usually just eat them or sell them for eating. I think I will check if it's fertile, though, out of curiosity!