Pretty speckled eggs

[cottontail farm]

These eggs weve been getting are so pretty. In years of having chickens we've never had white speckles like this. The hen is the yellow one. She came from a feed store and I didn't care what type the chicks were (was trying to get my numbers back up after a fox attack) but remember she wasn't a standard breed but some kind of hybrid for egg production.
They're almost too pretty to eat.

Please excuse the run, it's mud season here.

 

[featheredplanets]

I would blow some to keep as decoration!

She looks to be a Buff Orpington. I know they lay lightly coloured eggs. The spots almost look like squashed calcium deposits.

ETA: Grammar!

 

[aart]

Agrees they look like calcium deposits.
Are they raised and rough-ish?

 

[cottontail farm]

Agrees they look like calcium deposits.
Are they raised and rough-ish?

That's the thing, I've seen those before and they're not rough deposits. They're very flat and smooth. That's why it's suprising to me. I hope she keeps laying these.

 

[cottontail farm]

I would blow some to keep as decoration!

She looks to be a Buff Orpington. I know they lay lightly coloured eggs. The spots almost look like squashed calcium deposits.

ETA: Grammar!

Definitely going to keep a couple for display! She's not the body type for an Orpington though, she's almost as slim as my leghorn chicken. I have a lavender Orpington and that little hen is like a fat, feathered beach ball.

 

[sourland]

She is most likely a hatchery quality buff orpington. That is a neat egg. Hope that she keeps on laying eggs like that.