Observations on Egg Blooms

[aart]

Believe it or not, this egg is OLIVE GREEN under this bloom!
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So you can wash the bloom off and it will be olive green?
What cross is the OE?

 

[MissLavender]

So you can wash the bloom off and it will be olive green?
What cross is the OE?

Yes, the bloom washes off easily with a sponge. She's out of a blue Ameraucana hen, rooster was a BC Marans out of champion laying stock.

 

[Suzi18]

I have to admit that I'm mildly obsessed with egg color. I want all colors!

 

[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]

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

 

[aart]

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

So were these eggs washed?

I had some lt brahma that had a purplish speckled bloom, the intensity of the purple varied from day to day...just as other tinted blooms I see.
Pigment in coating can vary also.

 

[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.

 

[MissLavender]

So were these eggs washed?

I had some lt brahma that had a purplish speckled bloom, the intensity of the purple varied from day to day...just as other tinted blooms I see.
Pigment in coating can vary also.

I think they were, but not 100% sure. Her blooms definitely vary from day to day. Sometimes her eggs are almost purplish with a slight green undertone, sometimes they're olive green with purple speckles, and sometimes they're olive green with a slight purple hue.

 

[MissLavender]

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

 

[No More Empty Nest]

This is really interesting!