Pink eggs???

[Collyns]

I'm on a similar quest...just wondered which chickens you have that lay olive colored eggs?

 

[BelleFarm]

I'm on a similar quest...just wondered which chickens you have that lay olive colored eggs?

If you breed an blue egg layer to a Black Copper Maran, you'll get an olive egger

 

[Phoenixxx]

I'm no expert on chicken genetics but from what I've seen here (byc) egg colours are kind of similar to mixing paint. Like, a blue egg layer plus a brown layer = green; a dark brown egg layer mixed with a green egg layer = olive. Now, if there was a red egg layer and you mixed it with white, logically speaking you'd get a proper pink. But that doesn't explain pink eggs in EEs except that maybe the brown layer genes are taking dominance and the blue genes are just cooling the brown to a pink hue? I got a pink egg today (not a brown or beige egg with blush, but a white egg with a very definite pink tint) and I'm trying to figure out who made it. I think my chantecler ameracauna x did it, but that doesn't make sense since brown + green = greener green. Her half-sister, australorp ameracauna x, lays mint green. And my white phoenixes are supposed to lay an ice blue. I have noticed twice now (in this thread and another on pink eggs) chanteclers mentioned.... I'm now curious as to what chanteclers were made from because, if their crosses are the pink layers, that might shed some light! Gonna go google right now

 

[Phoenixxx]

Wiki says chanteclers were made from white leghorns (pink skin, white eggs) among several other breeds, including a white wyandotte (pale pinkish eggs). So, I guess it is possible that those two poked up in my girl - and the other chantecler crosses mentioned that lay pink - to make the pink egg. Still not 100% sure with mine, though. I'm home tomorrow so will be keeping watch will also try to get a photo with accurate colour representation.

 

[Phoenixxx]

Well, got another one today but it came from one of the white phoenixes! And looking at it in daylight, it's definitely a white egg with very light pink tint and fine white speckles.

 

[BelleFarm]

You're lucky to have gotten a pink egg!

 

[handyman42]

Some Buff Orpingtons lay a pink egg. I think it's actually considered a light brown but a couple of mine lay straight up pink eggs.

 

[please stop]

please stop falsely posting as Collyns. This is not your name and each time you post as a Collyns uploading your photograph it is a form of cyberbullying because you know you are not a Collyns. Please stop behaving in hurtful and disingenuous ways and please stop falsely posting identities on the internet with your photograph with the name Collyns. It's wrong and so hurtful and you know this.

 

[enola]

Egg color is determined by genes - blue, brown or white. Pink eggs are technically just (light) brown genes in action.

If you bred chickens that lay "pink" eggs for enough generations, you could probably come up with hens that consistently lay pink eggs. But you would not have created a new breed. Or changed the genes, they would still be light brwn eggs.

I used to have wyandottes that laid "pink" eggs. They were really pretty in a basket with eggs from marans, araucana, EE, leghorn and barred rock hens.

 

[Deepfriedbeauty]

Pink is truly in the eye of the beholder. You can ask for pink eggs and have thousands of people bring you simple light brown eggs, or brown eggs with a bloom on them, which does indeed make them pink, then you can even have people bring you purple eggs! (dark brown with bloom)


In my experience, Jersey Giants lay a very consistent "pink" (light brown w/bloom) egg. Every pullet or hen of mine lays the same nice pink, all through their lives. Their parents even laid a nice uniform pink, and the egg size is quite large! Brahmas, Wyandottes, and several other breeds like Shamos and the sort lay light brown eggs, but they usually aren't as "pink" - If they are, it isn't as consistent.


In this carton, the egg second from left on the bottom is a "pink" from a Jersey Giant. The plum-purple on the right is from a Marans, but such trait is unpredictable, and can happen with any random hen. Often it occurs frequently with a particular hen though. I myself only get it from a select few girls, and only get it about once a week.

What laid the 3rd from the right?