Should I buy eggs or wait it out?

[gator75]

It is common for them to have a bit of green. They do have some brown egg layers in their parent stock.

The brown will fade fairly quickly and the egg will be more of a blue color--In a month or so.

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Second in 2 days!

 

[ronott1]

Second in 2 days!

That is a very nice color!

 

[BullChick]

My bantam Lavender Ameraucana has gone from green to brown.
I had an Am pair in the past. Never had an issue with the egg color.

 

[ronott1]

My bantam Lavender Ameraucana has gone from green to brown.
I had an Am pair in the past. Never had an issue with the egg color.

The brown should fade. The egg shell is still blue. What you are seeing is what happens at the beginning of a new laying cycle. The brown fades over the cycle--could be a year and a half. Then the hen molts and the brown is darker again.

You will get a nice green back...eventually...

 

[BullChick]

The blue/green eggs seem to follow their own rules. I read that the color can be enhanced by carotenoids (yellow and green veggies), but you really need to look at the inside of the shell to see if it's a brown coating that might be changing the outside color, or if it's the base shell color that's different. My EE lays a green egg that has no brown coating. That's the color of her shell all the way through. She laid one yesterday that was so pale, it was almost white and the NewHamp laid one without the usual bloom that makes her very round eggs look pinkish. Guess my girls are still a bit messed up. Hope that Denagard works! --When I get it.

I have heard that the Marans eggs will get darker, especially for new layers. People talk about them 'kicking into gear' color-wise.

In the movies, strange things are always hidden in the basement.... monsters, aliens, bodies... Never heard of chickens in the basement!

I miss BYC from my first year or two. So many people are gone. That post is only quoted because it’s on a page that shows post from “achickenwrangler#1” of course “ok “ too. I never stop thinking of them or that poor girl. AnimalLover. She had cancer I believe. She was a sweetheart. So young to be so sick.

 

[ronott1]

I miss BYC from my first year or two. So many people are gone. That post is only quoted because it’s on a page that shows post from “achickenwrangler#1” of course “ok “ too. I never stop thinking of them or that poor girl. AnimalLover. She had cancer I believe. She was a sweetheart. So young to be so sick.

The bit about EEs laying green eggs with no brown coating is incorrect though. There is only one gene mutation that makes a blue egg shell and is dominant. The brown gets mixed in with the bloom sometimes. You can get it off with a lot of scrubbing sometimes but sometimes the brown goes through the egg

There have been some poultry studies on the blue egg shell gene.

I have been on here for 7 years now and there are definitely a lot of members gone. Most of them just left though. Once they stop keeping chickens they leave the forum. A couple don't though. Drumstick Diva has never had chickens LOL

 

[Wishing4Wings]

I miss BYC from my first year or two. So many people are gone. That post is only quoted because it’s on a page that shows post from “achickenwrangler#1” of course “ok “ too. I never stop thinking of them or that poor girl. AnimalLover. She had cancer I believe. She was a sweetheart. So young to be so sick.

I feel the same way. I didn't know that about AnimalLover.

 

[BullChick]

I feel the same way. I didn't know that about AnimalLover.

I’ll look through later. I remember her being in high school, and I swear she said she didn’t think she would live to see graduation day. She often spoke of not ever getting to have children.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

MC, how in the world do you search for a member?? I could do it easily on the old server, but this new one is the pits for searching. What am doing wrong?

 

[BullChick]

I sometimes get lucky, and the search will like me enough to give me what I want.
I put the name in

, and click on “member.”