May 2020 Hatch-A-Long

[FortCluck]

It’s like a mint green and I’m obsessed! I want this color layer!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

@CindyinSD like this? This is in broad daylight with a maran egg...

I figured I’d help since I’m free

By the way you can see the internal pip

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So just tried this method with blue ameraucana eggs and was able to confirm that 4 of the 5 "quitters" are actually quitters, but one is alive with a HUGE saddle. Will add to the others and hope for the best. Thanks!

 

[Knighstar679]

So just checked my eggs in the hatching incubator I have one that sounds internally pipped, it had some tapping going on. I am pretty sure one of my shipped eggs through is DIS

 

[FortCluck]

So just checked my eggs in the hatching incubator I have one that sounds internally pipped, it had some tapping going on. I am pretty sure one of my shipped eggs through is DIS

Ducks or chickens

 

[Knighstar679]

Ducks or chickens

Black East Indie Ducks. My chicken eggs don’t start to arrive until tomorrow. I ordered some Lavender Americanna and Death Layers. Because I couldn’t find lavender Brahmas.

 

[FortCluck]

Black East Indie Ducks. My chicken eggs don’t start to arrive until tomorrow. I ordered some Lavender Americanna and Death Layers. Because I couldn’t find lavender Brahmas.

You kill me with your coloring... Gorgeous color picks, you have a good eye for lawn candy

 

[6oddsocks]

Hello all ! Hope everyone is safe and well . Were on day 12 and down to 3 out of 6 silkie/frizzle eggs now and 1/2 of the tesco eggs .honestly cant get a pic of the blue egg at all haha ! But I think I see feet in one pic !

 

[FortCluck]

My friend said my Death Comet is ugly. I had to explain to her that it’s only feathered halfway She thought it would stay like that. She buys her chickens at POL so she doesn’t deal with chicks.

 

[CindyinSD]

It’s like a mint green and I’m obsessed! I want this color layer!

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It depends on the rooster and the kind of the hen. There are breeds that breed true and consistently lay green or blue eggs. (The pure color you have in the pic.) For this, the male and female need to be the same kinds. Crested Cream Legbars are blue layers like that, and there is another breed too, that I can't remember. There's also at least one mint-green layer that breeds true but again, you need the same-breed rooster to produce babies that will lay mint.

So, from your pic, I would guess that your egg (being female) could produce a green layer if it is fertilized by the same-breed rooster. I don't think the pure greens and blues are dominant, but idk. I'm assuming from their relative rarity the trait is at least partly recessive.

There are also olive eggers that are (always? mostly?) hybrid hens from a hen that lays blue and a rooster breed that lays brown (or the other way round--can't remember). What happens with these is that the blue shell is overlaid with brown pigment, producing an olive egg of various values (more brown=darker olive).

Then of course there are Easter Eggers. I haven't had any yet, but I don't think their colors are usually as saturated as your sample.

 

[FortCluck]

It depends on the rooster and the kind of the hen. There are breeds that breed true and consistently lay green or blue eggs. (The pure color you have in the pic.) For this, the male and female need to be the same kinds. Crested Cream Legbars are blue layers like that, and there is another breed too, that I can't remember. There's also at least one mint-green layer that breeds true but again, you need the same-breed rooster to produce babies that will lay mint.

So, from your pic, I would guess that your egg (being female) could produce a green layer if it is fertilized by the same-breed rooster. I don't think the pure greens and blues are dominant, but idk. I'm assuming from their relative rarity the trait is at least partly recessive.

There are also olive eggers that are (always? mostly?) hybrid hens from a hen that lays blue and a rooster breed that lays brown (or the other way round--can't remember). What happens with these is that the blue shell is overlaid with brown pigment, producing an olive egg of various values (more brown=darker olive).

Then of course there are Easter Eggers. I haven't had any yet, but I don't think their colors are usually as saturated as your sample.

I’m not sure what laid it, it’s not my egg. I bought eggs from someone local and the gem was hidden in there.