Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[greenmimama]

Those baby chicks are adorable, I can't wait to get mine in the mail.

What kind of Chickens lay blue or pink eggs?

 

[chicken grandma]

Just wanted to thank Momma K and her beautiful daughters for the beautiful Pekin female! Got her this afternoon and she is getting alone very well with our drake Peep.

Peep and Aflac... BFF's already!

Really nice to see your duck has a friend Caz! That was so nice of you and MommaK to do for him!

 

[swampducks]

Yes, look at my signature.

Hey to any mods, I can't edit the attendees thread first post any more. Can you help me with that?

Wait a minute....there's an up north chickenstock?

 

[1muttsfan]

Greenmi, there are several pure breeds that lay blue or blue-green eggs - among then araucana, ameraucana, and isabars. Then there are the mixed-breed birds generally called Easter Eggers (EE's) that lay eggs ranging from blue and green to pale brown ("pink"). EE's are often incorrectly called Ameraucanas or Araucanas by those selling chicks.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Idk, my egg from my one girl seemed to be pretty pink to me.......... but that is all pure luck, hatcheries sometimes give out ones that lay pink but i have researched a ton and no one really knows how it happens, i have only seen one case where someone knew the daddy of the pink egg layers, but he was culled before they found out due to behavior issues

But that egg was pink inside and out! was cute.

You get a green egg from crossing a brown egger with a blue, can either be khaki or mint green

 

[NovaAman]

I say... My Skeeters egg is NOT pale brown... It is PINK. Straight up PINK... Its so funny, cuz Skatter her sister, lays a ringed green... Why ringed? Its not solid green from top to bottom, it has rings of green from light to dark. I think she is just being creative. They are both black bantam cochins... great broodies... I hate when they are though.. I like my colored eggs.

 

[greenmimama]

So there is no breed that always lays a pink egg?

I saw on a thread that you can get an olive layer by crossing a green and a brown layer? sounds so pretty. I love the rainbow of eggs I have seen pictures of on here.

 

[NovaAman]

Well, you can get what is called a tinted egg layer... Those eggs are considered a pale tan... but they are pink to me...

 

[Brethren49619]

Coronation Sussex lays a pink egg, I believe all the time, reliably. Sky blue eggs are from the Araucana. Isbars (pronounced Ice Bar) lays a green egg. It's not like the green of the olive egger as I have seen them pictured. It really is amazing the colors these birds can lay.

 

[NovaAman]

Buffy layed a pinkish egg... Wasn't as pink looking as Skeeters is though. Theyre are considered cream or tinted... Anyway, Lankenvelders and Faverolles will give you a tinted egg. Silkies also can give tinted. Leila's eggs were more of a tanish pink, and Vanillas (formerly Snowbunny) lays a whiteish egg, both silkies.... I want to say that Lorelie and Beulah both lay an egg that is more pink tinted than cream.. They are both faverolles.

I love my faverolles by the way. They are very sweet birds. I have a LOT of fav crosses in the yard, and they are all just sweet and adorable. I get a wider range of colors from them though, since they are mix breed birds..

There used to be a breeds page here that showed every breed, its egg laying ability, and the egg color. Now if you click on the breeds tab, you have to put in the qualities you are interested in, and then it gives you a list of birds that fits those qualities. I personally do not like that. I liked it the old way better...