Observations on Egg Blooms

[AmaranthineAcres]

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

 

[aart]

That's probably lack of brown coating on the bluish part.
Olive eggs are brown coating on a blue shell.

 

[AmaranthineAcres]

That's probably lack of brown coating on the bluish part.
Olive eggs are brown coating on a blue shell.

There were other photos of the egg showing that it was a heavy gray bloom over the olive. I've seen other solid grays like this that are olive when wet. So neat.

 

[JurassicBawk]

My Olive Egger lays 'gray' eggs that turn olive if you wash them. I don't have a pic of a washed one on my phone, but found these pics comparing it to my pink tint bantam and two of my EE eggs. You can see it is the lightest, but I'll have to get a pic after washing one to show that it's dark olive, sometimes with a few brown spots. You can usually see lines/scratches in the bloom where they move them around in the nest box since it's so thick I assume it takes a little longer to dry.

 

[TheAmundsons]

This is such an interesting thread! I love it!

 

[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]

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.

 

[AmaranthineAcres]

How to breed a grey egg... Find a hen that lays a purple-y pink egg...View attachment 1731822
breed her with a rooster with dark green egg gene...View attachment 1731823
and there you go.
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I'm LOVING these replies! So fascinating. Interesting to note that white speckles can be made by bloom or calcium deposits. What hen made your pink egg?

 

[gimmie birdies]

She was a splash, and I am sorry, I don't know the breed, a lady gave her to me, and she didn't know either.

 

[gimmie birdies]

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