Spotted egg chicken breed

[PortugalBreeder]

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Do you have maran eggs for sale?

In the spring.

Right now I'm using them for Olive Eggers, but in general, yes.

What you mean, you are using your chickens for Olive?

 

[Illia]

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I'm crossing them with my Araucanas to create "Olive Eggers," a crossbreed that will lay a rich, dark olive green colored egg.

 

[PortugalBreeder]

Oh, OK, that's cool, hope it works, but I'm afraid it may not, because as the pigments are different, also the mechanisms to get them are, this means that having a breed which lays dark terracota eggs (high production of Protoporphyrin, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoporphyrin), crossed with one that produces green eggs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biliverdin) doesn't make the green pigment mechanism produce more pigment because they are from "different parts of the chicken body" so one would not affect the other, anyway I think you will get a green+brown mix color, since the chickens you will breed will produce both of the pigments.
Hope my bad English is readable and understandable enough for being understood (I'm from a country where we don't speak English, sorry).

But, anyway that's a very cool project that I would for sure try to! Good luck, then show us the results!

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

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They look like an artist took a paintbrush to them- simply amazing.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

When I bought my Welsummers the lady said that they should lay a speckled egg sometimes.

 

[bacres]

Cornish???

 

[bacres]

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Can you breed and raise these or are they just simply wild?

 

[Wendy'sChicksRock]

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Those eggs are AWESOME ....

 

[PortugalBreeder]

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Can you breed and raise these or are they just simply wild?

They are a species very adapted to their habitat, just look at those huge feet, adapted to spread the bird's weight for more aquatic plants so that they stay float (they are bog/wetland birds).

This is just one species of jacana, there are several more.
Being this adapted means that if you want to raise them you have to options, create very similar habitat, which may cost a little fortune, or be very careful and professional if you have them in a domestic environment, and then of course after some generations you can start to clean some of their more problematic traits.

Anyway, you will also need to worry about your country laws.

Check this out, I think this site sells them:
http://www.softbillsforsale.com/Jacanas.asp

 

[Wynette]

I LOVE speckly eggs, and was saying, just the other day in the Marans thread, that I would love to beed a line of VERY speckly egg layers! I don't have any that lay "very" speckled, but here are a few of the favorites I've had in the past: