Pink Egg Project Interest?

[Brahma Chicken5000]

The circled egg is a very pale pink,you’d need to breed the hen that laid this egg to a rooster from a pinker egg to possibly get daughters that would lay pink eggs

 

[Amer]

The circled egg is a very pale pink,you’d need to breed the hen that laid this egg to a rooster from a pinker egg to possibly get daughters that would lay pink eggs View attachment 1261132

my Australorp lays much darker eggs, and so do Marans. ? My Aussie lays darker eggs than the said "Marans"

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

my Australorp lays much darker eggs, and so do Marans. ? My Aussie lays darker eggs than the said "Marans"

I just noticed how pale the Black Copper Marans eggs are.

 

[ZurcherFarms]

The circled egg is a very pale pink,you’d need to breed the hen that laid this egg to a rooster from a pinker egg to possibly get daughters that would lay pink eggs View attachment 1261132

Do you think you could use a Faverolle rooster over pink Easter eggers for the first generation, then a son from that match from then on? Assuming his sisters laid pink... Like their mother...

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Do you think you could use a Faverolle rooster over pink Easter eggers for the first generation, then a son from that match from then on? Assuming his sisters laid pink... Like their mother...

I’m no genetics guru like Moonshiner. I really have no idea if it will work. Sorry.

 

[Trish1974]

Is that color consistent across the whole breed? That picture looks like a bloom.

I guess starting with a Faverolle would be a good start. However, I don't think we can discount those brighter pink laying Easter eggers either. Buff Orpingtons and light Sussex would be good additions too.

My buff orpington laid a pink egg, frequently with white spots, very similar to the one shown for SF in BrahmaChicken's chart. She was from Townline Hatchery.

 

[ZurcherFarms]

I just noticed how pale the Black Copper Marans eggs are.

Me too. That person must have bought a hatchery marans. I made that mistake once. They're all culls and useless to me. They're all with my regular eating egg layers now.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

My buff orpington laid a pink egg, frequently with white spots, very similar to the one shown for SF in BrahmaChicken's chart. She was from Townline Hatchery.
View attachment 1261136

That is really pink.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Me too. That person must have bought a hatchery marans. I made that mistake once. They're all culls and useless to me. They're all with my regular eating egg layers now.

The egg laid by a buff in the first picture of eggs posted by Moonshiner kind of looks like an Olive Egger egg

 

[AllenK RGV]

@ZurcherFarms I know you had mentioned doing this as a "Project" These are my eggs from today from my Black Sumatra obtained via MPC, but shipped from Polk, Ohio so Meyer's Nursery. They are all off white with a pale pink tinge that could be selected for a better color expression. They lay small 45-50 gram eggs and breed description states "off white", also there is a strain that lays blue from some university here in the US.

Hope I am not too off topic but if you still want to build a pink/salmon egg layer they might be worth a look over.

edit--Wanted to take the photo over a range of lighting conditions to provide you as much detail as possible on the coloration. Photo captured on a Canon 20D body with a 24-105L lens so you can trust the color rendition.