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Hammy79
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- Jan 17, 2017
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Are you calling that white?
Looks like light brown to me.
The cuckoos aren't known to lay as dark as the black coppers... but that's awfully big looking for it to be a pullet egg unless it is a multi yolker or your bluebell egg is smaller than I think. I'm not familiar with bluebells at all.
Probably just a spray booth error. Sometimes you can tell on the older hens if you know the shape is always the same but it's just a weird shade. It also helps sometimes if you know who lays where, to figure that kind of stuff out.
But if you compare it to say the white on the page where I am currently typing... that's definitely brown.
Many new layer won't have there spray booth completely worked out yet. That's why we wait for consistent laying before deciding if the color meets standard well enough to stay in the flock or not when breeding to that standard.
Your flock is pretty as are your eggs.
Thanks for your reply , the blue bell egg isn't huge so it maybe from one of the Maran eggs. Also that photo make the egg look much darker than it is to the naked eye . Any way thanks for the response and the compliments . I take pride in my flock so it is nice to here other people complimenting them .