The EE braggers thread!!!

[Reinbeau]

From what I've read, there are only two colors of eggs, white and blue. Brown eggs are a brown overlay over a white egg. Green eggs are a brown overlay over a blue egg. The inside of my EEs eggs are blue, the insides of my brown eggs are white.

 

[Ariel301]

Ariel301 - your buffs look a lot like my Roy and your silver falcon looks a lot like the ones that come from the hatchery in our area Rustysgirl has some just like her - I love the look - perhaps we should "officially name that EE color the "Silver Falcon" ; where are you from?

I'm in northern Arizona. I got all my EEs secondhand from a lady who has raised them for several generations but decided to give them up since her kids lost interest and she was having some serious coyote attacks. I don't know where she got them from originally. She sold this group to me as "Araucana/bantam cross". She did not seem to know that there were multiple kinds of bantam, when I asked her what kind of bantam, she just looked at me funny and said it was a 'banty rooster'.

"Silver Falcon"...I like it.

I hope she has more chicks in her color, it's funny that the two I have out of her look nothing like her and not much like the rooster either!​

 

[becky3086]

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I agree. The insides of my EE eggs (the green or blue ones) are blue as well.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

maybe mine are the crazy ones then, the insides of all of our green eggs are white.

 

[Reinbeau]

Look carefully, Katy, put them against something white - I think you'll see it's actually a light blue tint.

 

[Kansaseq]

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Thanks, Katy, he was a beautiful boy. He was actually a Buff Orpington, though, and he sired some beautiful EE/Bo babies. I gave him away when he became aggressive. I was VERY honest as to why he was up for grabs, and his new owner was ok with it.

 

[feathersnuggles]

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When you crack open one of the green EE eggs, grab the membrane and peel it away, while the inside of the egg shell is still wet. That's how I discovered the really pretty blue shell inside! I saw the blue tint through the white membrane, and peeled it away.

 

[feathersnuggles]

Thanks Katy. This spring, if I still long to see that robin's-egg-blue color on the OUTSIDE shell, I'll check into adding one or two purebred Ameraucanas.

 

[feathersnuggles]

Another post... So, someone earlier said they had EE in LF, bantam, etc. What's LF?

 

[Shiningfeather]

LF means large fowl