Reject Hatching Eggs - aka "The Undesirable Egg Experiment"

[Self sufficient chickens]

These are multi generation Olive Eggers. My friend has been working on her flock of Olive Eggers for years and while she does get the occasional olive egg that is a brownish olive she seems to consistently get shades of green from her flock. It requires breeding back to Marans lines from the desired olive egg hens and then eventually you can have a rooster that hatched from an olive egg over olive hens that produce chicks that predominantly lay olive eggs. I don't know all of her specifics, I just know she's been doing it a long time. We're talking 3rd-4th-5th generations before you have a flock with more consistent results but that's part of the fun with raising Olive Eggers! Surprise egg colors! I'm still hoping for the elusive Avocado green egg one day!

Cool

 

[Self sufficient chickens]

On a slightly different topic... Alchemist Farm sells cocoa eggers. They lay a chocolate brown egg -- without the marans red. I wish they had hatching eggs!

https://www.alchemistfarm.com/product/cocoa-egger-chick/

 

[aart]

On a slightly different topic... Alchemist Farm sells cocoa eggers. They lay a chocolate brown egg -- without the marans red. I wish they had hatching eggs!

https://www.alchemistfarm.com/product/cocoa-egger-chick/

OhBoy, is this the newest designer bird!?
Pics of eggs on that site looks like OE with weak blue shell color in lineage,
I have a bunch of those here.

 

[aart]

Any more popped out yet @CluckNDoodle ?

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Any more popped out yet @CluckNDoodle ?

Yes! I walked away and finished some chores and missed all the action! 2 more hatched for a total of 5 hatched and 5 still pipped!

Both oblong eggs hatched without issues and 1 porous egg so far. The other porous egg and sticky are still taking their time. Looking back there were 7 undesirable eggs set because Crackles was both the cracked egg & the second egg with calcium build up. First calcium build up (lumpy) was infertile. So 5 out of 7 once these last two hatch from the misfits gang!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Chick #6 just hatched! It was the other porous egg!

 

[SBFChickenGirl]

YAY!!!!

 

[aart]

Chick #6 just hatched! It was the other porous egg!

So the only 'undesirables' that hatched were the 2 rockets and the 2 porous?

 

[CluckNDoodle]

So the only 'undesirables' that hatched were the 2 rockets and the 2 porous?

Yes, so far. Sticky (the egg white leakage or glue substance) is zipping now. The calcium build up egg was infertile and the cracked egg quit.

 

[MGG]

Yes, so far. Sticky (the egg white leakage or glue substance) is zipping now. The calcium build up egg was infertile and the cracked egg quit.

Is Sticky out yet? Any more pics?