Pink eggs???

[BirdCrazyLady]

My question is... is it possible to gather all the random pink eggs and breed the chicks that hatch from them to create a pink laying breed? This is some genetic trait right? Theoretically they should all carry A pink gene, with careful breeding you should after a few generations narrow it down. I really think I want to try this! Do y'all think it's possible?

 

[Cattitude]

Not sure about breeding for pink eggs... The genetic experts shall have to weigh in with their opinion!

I had an EE that laid a very nice apricot colored egg. Her egg is front right in this pic:

 

[BirdCrazyLady]

beautiful egg! yes, genetic experts I need your advice. Maybe its not a "pink" gene per say. May people have been talking about "bloom" so maybe its not the color gene thats as important as the "bloom coating"gene. Some posts say that those beautiful purple eggs, are Marans eggs with bloom. I wonder if you can breed for that....... humm

 

[BirdCrazyLady]

These are my blue an pink eggs. The blue and the pink eggs are from my two EE and the little ones are from a hen my father-in-law gave me that is 2/3 some kind of game hen and 1/3 golden Sebright. He has odd breed mixtures over there! The pink ones are tinted and just lightly pink. (the huge one is a double yolker I got today, that hen likes to throw those)

 

[LT]

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I don't know anything about chicken genetics regarding egg color, but as an artist, I do know about color theory. The "apricot" egg would look brown next to a white egg, but the blue/green egg is making us perceive it differently. The array of colors in your carton is lovely, for sure, but I think in this case, it is the blue/green egg making the other one seem different.

 

[mstrrlm]

My understanding is Guinea eggs are pinkish I will find out this coming spring.

 

[Cattitude]

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I don't know anything about chicken genetics regarding egg color, but as an artist, I do know about color theory. The "apricot" egg would look brown next to a white egg, but the blue/green egg is making us perceive it differently. The array of colors in your carton is lovely, for sure, but I think in this case, it is the blue/green egg making the other one seem different.

Yes, I was thinking myself that the lighting and setting didn't do it justice. I don't have a recent egg to photograph, though! Perhaps when molt is over. I've had her in with the Ameraucana roo so that the blue-egg genes would be in any hatchlings. Love my blue and green eggs!

 

[Zonoma]

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[Reyvaughn]

One of my BAs lays a nice, pinkish egg. I have an EE giving me blue/green eggs with white speckles, too! I need to get pics!

 

[Tracydr]

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I think my Egyptian Fayoumis are supposed to lay pinkish eggs, although they haven't started to lay yet. I should know in a few weeks.