Quechua Thread

[Penny Hen]

One of the things that has been noticed by some who are breeding the ones with multicolored eggs is that some of them are laying pink eggs. Not white with a light brown coating that is making them peachy but pink shelled. It has been the common thought that the pink eggs in Easter Eggers was caused by a light coating of brown pigment. But several of the breeders here have pink shell on the inside. I have an Olive Egger girl that lays a pink egg with a brown coating. If you peel the inside skin off of the shell after you break it open you can see the pink shell. If you remove the brown coating with vinegar on the outside you can see the pink shell. The shell itself is pink. I believe this to be another gene just like the blue shell gene. I think it may have come with the South American birds that were crossed with other North American breeds. Don't have enough data to guess whether it is dominant or recessive to either the white or blue gene. But the egg shell itself is pink. The odds are that whatever gene causes it is either occupies the same position as the white and blue gene or is very close to it in proximity.

I have been meaning to take the shell to the paint store and get them to scan it for its hexidecimal color (a four digit number that describes how much red, yellow, blue and black are in it). I love the color and want some paint made up to match it and the blue inside of my olive eggs as well as the olive color outside. The beauty of doing this is you have a precise description of the color. Any printer can reproduce the color exactly from the four digit code.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

I like your idea! Never been a way to prove the pink was not a trick of the eyes. Do tell how it goes!

I think quecha were the ones to lay the tea colored. I had two ee girls laid a tea/ yellowish egg. Lost them both to impacted crop/straw eating. Idk why, but 2 years in for one and almost 4 years old on the other. Both girls were winter layers, lap cat affectionate, and were keeping up with the yearlings with laying.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

I brought both to vets too, they were not your eat out of your hand hens they were "hey you pick me up i wanna be petted" kind of friendly. Were more human oriented than the other chicks from the start. The pink layer i had was a wheaten color.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

One of the things that has been noticed by some who are breeding the ones with multicolored eggs is that some of them are laying pink eggs. Not white with a light brown coating that is making them peachy but pink shelled. It has been the common thought that the pink eggs in Easter Eggers was caused by a light coating of brown pigment. But several of the breeders here have pink shell on the inside. I have an Olive Egger girl that lays a pink egg with a brown coating. If you peel the inside skin off of the shell after you break it open you can see the pink shell. If you remove the brown coating with vinegar on the outside you can see the pink shell. The shell itself is pink. I believe this to be another gene just like the blue shell gene. I think it may have come with the South American birds that were crossed with other North American breeds. Don't have enough data to guess whether it is dominant or recessive to either the white or blue gene. But the egg shell itself is pink. The odds are that whatever gene causes it is either occupies the same position as the white and blue gene or is very close to it in proximity.

I have been meaning to take the shell to the paint store and get them to scan it for its hexidecimal color (a four digit number that describes how much red, yellow, blue and black are in it). I love the color and want some paint made up to match it and the blue inside of my olive eggs as well as the olive color outside. The beauty of doing this is you have a precise description of the color. Any printer can reproduce the color exactly from the four digit code.

I think you're right. Many of my penedesenca eggs are brown on the inside.
I discovered that some of the birds that lay a plum egg comes from a brown egg that gets a thin layer of calcium applied after the pigment. Most likely those that have the pigment application sites farther upstream in the shell gland.

I like your idea! Never been a way to prove the pink was not a trick of the eyes. Do tell how it goes!


I think quecha were the ones to lay the tea colored. I had two ee girls laid a tea/ yellowish egg. Lost them both to impacted crop/straw eating. Idk why, but 2 years in for one and almost 4 years old on the other. Both girls were winter layers, lap cat affectionate, and were keeping up with the yearlings with laying.

I'd love me some yellow egg layers.

 

[Yashar]

Penny Henny, where does the quetro fit into that family, if at all?

It seems that Quetro are not Quechuas, but both are part of the Rapanui family.

I took this from another site:

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[simonerol]

This chick came from grannychicks she said huastec, but it does not look like one, she's all grown up now and layed her first kind of khaki brown egg. she is the size of a big pigeon or bantam. trying to identify what it is. Thanks.

 

[Grannychick55]

This chick came from grannychicks she said huastec, but it does not look like one, she's all grown up now and layed her first kind of khaki brown egg. she is the size of a big pigeon or bantam. trying to identify what it is. Thanks.

yes it does look like a Huastic it hatched from Yashars stock they are different looking birds but they have not been out since Yashar sent them I will send a pic of the birds in that flock. They have been in a closed flock. I will email Yashar and see what he thinks.

 

[Grannychick55]

yes it does look like a Huastic it hatched from Yashars stock they are different looking birds but they have not been out since Yashar sent them I will send a pic of the birds in that flock. They have been in a closed flock. I will email Yashar and see what he thinks.

I emailed Yashar and ask him to look and see what he thought I have several hens in the flock that look like that one if Yashar says it. Is something else I will return your money I know it came from the birds he sent they have been in a seperate pen since they arrived and still are

 

[Yashar]

yes it does look like a Huastic it hatched from Yashars stock they are different looking birds but they have not been out since Yashar sent them I will send a pic of the birds in that flock. They have been in a closed flock. I will email Yashar and see what he thinks.

This hen is the grand-daughter of an our-crossed Huastec hen with a Koro Sea rooster. Her mother is a tiny little thing... super cute. I'll see if i can find her picture.

 

[Yashar]

Here she is.