New Chicks Have Arrived!! Yellow is the extra?

[SJsChickies]

So happy for you! I hope you have something special planned for that first egg. I made a delicious breakfast sandwich with my first one.

It was a gorgeous double yoker and I fried it and put it on avocado toast for dinner tonight

 

[SJsChickies]

This is a line up of my 6 layers. Can’t wait to have all 10 to show!

 

[WingItRanch]

This is a line up of my 6 layers. Can’t wait to have all 10 to show!

Beautiful! I still love going to collect eggs.

 

[SJsChickies]

Beautiful! I still love going to collect eggs.

Me too! And I love seeing other peoples’ eggs. I have your basket of OE eggs pic saved lol. I hope one of my 2 has a speckled egg

 

[SJsChickies]

The inside and outside of this EEs egg are both green. I thought I read something about the inside only being white or blue? Does this mean something?

 

[NatJ]

The inside and outside of this EEs egg are both green. I thought I read something about the inside only being white or blue? Does this mean something?

Every "blue" egg I have ever seen, looked to me like it was really a greenish-blue. That may say more about how I describe colors than it says about the actual color of the eggs

The usual understanding is that the eggshell is either blue or white through most of its thickness, and then it can have brown on the outside making the final color look green (brown over blue) or brown (brown over white). But there is the question what shade of "blue" is actually involved. And there's the question of whether some hens do it differently, because people don't actually know everything about how chicken bodies and genes work. It seems there is always a bit more to learn.

I don't know exactly what is going on with your egg, whether the inside is the same color as other EE's eggs or whether it's different.

 

[SJsChickies]

Every "blue" egg I have ever seen, looked to me like it was really a greenish-blue. That may say more about how I describe colors than it says about the actual color of the eggs

The usual understanding is that the eggshell is either blue or white through most of its thickness, and then it can have brown on the outside making the final color look green (brown over blue) or brown (brown over white). But there is the question what shade of "blue" is actually involved. And there's the question of whether some hens do it differently, because people don't actually know everything about how chicken bodies and genes work. It seems there is always a bit more to learn.

I don't know exactly what is going on with your egg, whether the inside is the same color as other EE's eggs or whether it's different.

This is all so interesting to me! My CCL’s eggs are white on the inside and so are my brown eggs. I thought it was so cool to see the same color inside on this one. It’s gorgeous. Maybe I need to get a chicken genetics book just for fun.

 

[Not-so Slick Chicken]

The inside and outside of this EEs egg are both green. I thought I read something about the inside only being white or blue? Does this mean something?

I've found that if I remove the inner membrane from a freshly cracked egg, I can get a better look at what the inner shell color is compared to the exterior color.
That membrane can make the colors look a little different

 

[SJsChickies]

I've found that if I remove the inner membrane from a freshly cracked egg, I can get a better look at what the inner shell color is compared to the exterior color.
That membrane can make the colors look a little different

I will do that next time!