The EE braggers thread!!!

[maryellen21]

Thank you!!! I thought my eyes were deceiving me... Now to figure out who is laying the different green ones.. I have an idea on the blue one but now no clue on the green- one hen cant lay different green shades correct?

 

[tmrutter3]

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My last EE (of the 3) finally started laying on the 4th, at 36 weeks!! Here is the new layer, Dolores: Here is her egg: And here are all 3 of my EE eggs, Olive Greenish (Dolores), Light green - but looks brown in this pic (Buttercup), and pale blue (Cleo) Happy happy EE owner!e [/quote Beautiful eggs!

 

[bruceha2000]

Thank you!!! I thought my eyes were deceiving me... Now to figure out who is laying the different green ones.. I have an idea on the blue one but now no clue on the green- one hen cant lay different green shades correct?

They kinda can. I had blue layer that was taken by a predator last May and I have a green layer. Sometimes the blue and green were hard to tell apart unless you looked at them together. Other times the blue and green were quite obvious. I think maybe the lighter ones came at the end of a "run" and the darker ones at the beginning of the next. Could be their "ink cartridges" run out and they have to refill them before they lay again.

 

[HerbGir1972]

I wish I could get our pic loaded our blue egg layer layer the most amazing bright egg the other day

 

[draye]

These are the only 4 I kept from a hatch of ten. Most of the rest were blue or of bluish color. I've got lots of blue in the EE's in my flock so I decided to sell off those.

I kept 1 black 1 blue ( it was so dark I thought it was black) and 2 gold chipmunkish color ones. Hoping I chose we'll and picked 4 pullets.

One more shot

 

[jerryse]

I kept 1 black 1 blue ( it was so dark I thought it was black) and 2 gold chipmunkish color ones. Hoping I chose we'll and picked 4 pullets.

Usually the dark blue almost black one turn out to be cockerels .

 

[draye]

 I kept 1 black 1 blue ( it was so dark I thought it was black) and 2 gold chipmunkish color ones. Hoping I chose we'll and picked 4 pullets.

 
Usually the dark blue almost black one turn out to be cockerels .

Thanks for the heads up on that. I've never heard that. I'll definitely will watch it.

 

[KittieChick]

I have an EE rooster, and EE hen. My EE hen is laying blue eggs. I cracked one open for breakfast and it's blue all the way through! I thought only the purebreds layed eggs that are blue from start to finish. Is this possible from a mutt?

Does this mean my rooster is blue dominant, as well as my hen? If that's the case, if I'm thinking correctly, their babies will all be blue dominant.

Regardless, I'm very happy.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

I have an EE rooster, and EE hen. My EE hen is laying blue eggs. I cracked one open for breakfast and it's blue all the way through! I thought only the purebreds layed eggs that are blue from start to finish. Is this possible from a mutt?

Does this mean my rooster is blue dominant, as well as my hen? If that's the case, if I'm thinking correctly, their babies will all be blue dominant.

Regardless, I'm very happy.

Nope - it isn't about pure/not-pure with blue eggs. Blue/green eggs are colored inside and out regardless of breeding. The pigment in them is distributed in the shell itself vs. being "spray painted" on the outside as with brown eggs.

 

[KittieChick]

I must have a MACHINE of a petite hen. My EE gave me a SECOND egg today! In the middle of winter? Love this hen.