Purple eggs??

[oparea]

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In for pics, sounds crazy.

 

[speckledhen]

I have had several hens who laid pinkish eggs with lavender speckles, but pink eggs are really brown eggs. Cross a blue egg laying breed with a brown egg laying breed and you get a green egglayer.

 

[Jeff9118]

Ok so I spoke to him today and he is going to save me some eggs for pics but may take a few days and he lives 30 mins away in nowhere land so it may be a week or so before I have them. But I will take and post pics as soon as I can. Again these are not just purple and somtimes blue speckles but are crusty calcium deposits that are raised on the shell.

 

[Jubaby]

I have a chicken that lays a brown egg with a purplish tint to it. It's definitely a different shade than any of the other brown eggs.

I haven't been able to narrow down which chicken lays it though.

 

[Jeff9118]

I will also have him hang on to her as I did not know she was that unique or that she really had any value as a mix. She is in a project pen that has nothing to do with egg color.

 

[enola]

If this color is caused by calcium deposits, then in my opinion it is not technically a purple egg.

Someone on here will please let me know if I am not right.

 

[ajablu]

I have two Brahma hens that lay a brown egg that is different than the others. It is a shade that has a cool purple or plum cast to it making it different in color than my other brown eggs.
I have tried to take pictures of them but they never come out good. I wondered if breeding them to a blue egg layer would produce something more purple, but as speckledhen said they are still brown eggs in spite of the cast they have so would just produce green egg layers. I guess I might try it anyway. I have a young Ameraucana who I think is a cockerel so I could use him.

 

[Guitartists]

http://freestepfarm.com/sale.htm

Check out that purplish egg

I think that if you were to breed a hen that lays a powdery coated egg to a reddish-brown egg layer breed that you would get a purplish looking egg

 

[Jeff9118]

Again I never said the eggs were purple, all I said is that there is purple calcium deposits giving a purple spotted appearence and asked if it was possible to get a fully purple egg. Everyone read from the begining please as I am not claiming to have or have seen a purple egg.

 

[danielnv]

It would seem that a fully purple or lavender egg is possible since you have seen purple deposits and another has seen a purplish brown.

The pic in the Url above appears purple but of course it is hard to tell with lighting and all. Perhaps if several breeders work on this...

I was wondering where pink eggs come from- someone on here says they are brown eggs (I assume then the pink is caused by a mineral or something and is the natural base color of a "brown" egg when no brown pigment is present?