Speckled Eggs...

[Winter Creek Coop]

Is there anything better? What breeds throw speckled eggs? Welsummers? I honestly don’t know which if my hens lays the darker speckled ones but I suspect its the green egger that doesn’t lay green. Anyway I love speckled eggs. Y'all post some up in reply if you’d like.

 

[tripletfeb]

I had a silver laced wyandotte that laid me speckled eggs every day. I never took pictures of them like I should have, and of course, no longer have the hen! But she was very consistant in her pretty eggs.
Looked just like your speckled beauty!

 

[Winter Creek Coop]

Well I do have some wyandottes . Wyandotte hens are some of the prettiest girls at the dance.

 

[nuthatched]

Cacklehatchery has a mixed bred that lays speckled eggs. I think it's random not certain to one breed, it depends on the chicken.
I also have one chicken that lays speckled eggs.

 

[Aunt Angus]

My Welsummer does lay speckled eggs (these are both hers).

My Barred Rock lays eggs with almost purple speckles. I don't have pics of those, though. She's molting...

 

[rosemarythyme]

Welsummers can lay them, Olive Eggers with Welsummer parentage as well.

No photos of my Welsummer's (still on winter break) but here's my OE's (Welsummer & Cream Legbar). The far right on 1st row has some tiny speckling all over, middle of 2nd row shows more obvious spots. She's now laying eggs with larger, more noticeable spots instead of many tiny spots.

 

[Winter Creek Coop]

My Welsummer does lay speckled eggs (these are both hers).
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My Barred Rock lays eggs with almost purple speckles. I don't have pics of those, though. She's molting...

Great speckles! We are incubating some speckled eggs now hoping they will pass it along. If we get a cock then I can breed him as the male stock to another speckled egger. I’d love to lock down a line of speckled eggers.

 

[Aunt Angus]

Great speckles! We are incubating some speckled eggs now hoping they will pass it along. If we get a cock then I can breed him as the male stock to another speckled egger. I’d love to lock down a line of speckled eggers.

I love the look of speckled eggs - even more than the colored/tinted eggs. Quail, too, lay gorgeous speckled eggs.

 

[Aunt Angus]

Welsummers can lay them, Olive Eggers with Welsummer parentage as well.

No photos of my Welsummer's (still on winter break) but here's my OE's (Welsummer & Cream Legbar). The far right on 1st row has some tiny speckling all over, middle of 2nd row shows more obvious spots. She's now laying eggs with larger, more noticeable spots instead of many tiny spots.

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Now tinted AND speckled eggs! Those are very pretty!!!

 

[Perris]

the dark brown ones here were laid by two Welsummers; if you zoom in you can see the speckles. Their eggs are sometimes speckled, sometimes not, even from the same hen, so I think there must be more than just genetics going on to produce it.