So sorry for you.
I bought eggs from Ebay - the ultimate Buyer Beware Site. They were suppose to be SKY blue like a Tiffany blue box, her picture was exactly what I wanted. The hens were blue, black splash -I really wanted lavender but the egg color was totally on the money so didn't care about the hens color. When I received them 8 blue and 4 green - it was suppose to be 10 sky blue - they were barely tinted blue, pale dusty blue, nothing like the picture. When I questioned her she said "Egg color lightens as the laying cycle comes to an end. The eggs are a very nice blue in the Spring, as pictured. As for the green tinted, that's my beautiful back Kitsch hen - it is an accepted color per the Ameraucana Breeders Club. I thought I only sent 2 of those, I try not to send any but a lot of my girls are broody so numbers are down. Sorry you are disappointed. I am sure once they hatch you won't be. It's a beautiful flock of birds that I've worked on for years." Then I
replied I would post pictures of the eggs I actually received, Second message was "Apologies again. No one else has had a problem, I ship several dozen a week. I have pulled my ads down and am not selling on eBay anymore. My eggs lighten up like that every year, so do my marans. It's very common. Hopefully you do hatch them, they are lovely birds and my hatch rates have been awesome this year they had lightened up, " I had Ameraucanas before and they never lighten up that much. So disappointed - I felt scammed. I guess I have to order chicks from John Blehm again, I just don't need 25.
