Observations on Egg Blooms

[AmaranthineAcres]

From the same colored egg enthusiast Facebook group, an example of how blooms can color an olive egg!

 

[gimmie birdies]

How to breed a grey egg... Find a hen that lays a purple-y pink egg...

breed her with a rooster with dark green egg gene...

and there you go.

 

[gimmie birdies]

she has green legs, but lays a purple egg. love her dark-dark eyes.

 

[aart]

And skygirlfarm seems to be having some success breeding for heavy blooms. Just look at these purple eggs!

That's freaky!

 

[MissLavender]

Believe it or not, this egg is OLIVE GREEN under this bloom!

 

[MissLavender]

These have much less of that purple, but here's the shells from some of her eggs next to a Dixie Rainbow eggshell:

 

[AmaranthineAcres]

Another fascinating video of a bloom drying on an olive egg. This one drying sort of blue-gray. Wow! You guys I have a new obsession.

 

[gimmie birdies]

gray egg to the left has been washed, the green egg middle is for perspective, and the right egg has the bloom.
below is a dark brown spotty egg un-washed and washed (same egg) you can wash off the dark from BCM eggs as well, but no one says that color is the bloom. yes they judge BCM darkness with the bloom.

below is a hatched gray egg, you can see the bloom has been worn off from hand turning...

the pic below you can see the shine..
no bloom....

and one last pic below of my gray egg with bloom....but still you can see it is gray- the bloom is the white flecks.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Today's gray.

 

[MissLavender]

I also have one Dixie Rainbow whose blooms are chalky white on top of a light brown egg.