Show off "mixed breed" egg colors

[ChestnutRidge]

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Can you please explain the extra coating? Is it particular to a certain breed, something you bred for specifically (if so, would you share how?), or a genetic jack-pot? I'm familiar with the concept of brown as an extra coating, but from whence purple?

(Edited to add: I see the "light layers with the extra bloom" explanation above (a bit slow on the uptake), and I know that the bloom is a protective membrane or dried mucous. Do some breeds have a thicker, and therefore more assertively colored, bloom?)

Thanks for sharing, Illia. Your posts are always direct and informative.

 

[Bravo]

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Illia I am drooling looking at your pics!!

Amazing eggs!! I'm jealous lol!

 

[rockinpaints]

Wow! Nice eggs!

 

[crash0330]

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Can you please explain the extra coating? Is it particular to a certain breed, something you bred for specifically (if so, would you share how?), or a genetic jack-pot? I'm familiar with the concept of brown as an extra coating, but from whence purple?

(Edited to add: I see the "light layers with the extra bloom" explanation above (a bit slow on the uptake), and I know that the bloom is a protective membrane or dried mucous. Do some breeds have a thicker, and therefore more assertively colored, bloom?)


Thanks for sharing, Illia. Your posts are always direct and informative.

I had 5 hens.that laid a similar colored egg with the extra coating. Mine where silkie and production red crosses

 

[Delmar]

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Well of coarse! This is a "show off" your eggs thread. Everybody knows that half the fun of showing off, is making people jealous