The EE braggers thread!!!

[melishkia]

so from my understanding, it has to be a chocolate brown egg layer crossed with blue.... basically my brahma rooster (pretty sure they just lay tan/brown eggs) with an americauna (blue) won't give me olive eggers, right?

 

[Selsley]

so from my understanding, it has to be a chocolate brown egg layer crossed with blue.... basically my brahma rooster (pretty sure they just lay tan/brown eggs) with an americauna (blue) won't give me olive eggers, right?

yes youre right

the blue pigment comes from bile in the liver and is added in the early stages of the shell manufacture hence why a blue egg is blue on the inside of the shell and a tan/brown egg is white inside,
the brown comes from hemoglobin in the blood and is added in the last stages of egg manufacture, its basically a colouring,
depending on your breed and darkness of the brown, that will be mixed to blue and tint the egg.

araucana and the 2 recognised crosses, the legbar and ameraucana, all lay blue eggs, (i heard legbar eggs are bluer than araucanas)
any bird crossed again will give varying degrees of green, which is a bit of a giveaway when people try to sell them by saying they lay blue/green eggs, we have 2 araucana hens, one looks like an araucana, as seen in many french adverts, and the other looks crossed,
she has no large feathers on her neck and she has a floppy comb, her eggs have a slight green tinge to it, the araucana although pale, is all blue.

we are expecting a pale/hint of green egg from our "orpaucana" EE if its a hen. since thier eggs are very pale. im not sure but it looks like it may have a pea comb,

 

[junebuggena]

so from my understanding, it has to be a chocolate brown egg layer crossed with blue.... basically my brahma rooster (pretty sure they just lay tan/brown eggs) with an americauna (blue) won't give me olive eggers, right?

It might. Genes for the brown coating are complicated. There are 9 different genes that are responsible for the coating. And birds can have several of them. That's why there are so many shades of brown. They also inherit independently from the shell color genes.
I crossed a pure-for-blue shell rooster with Barred Rocks. One pullet laid pale blue (didn't have any genes for coating), and one laid a light olive color.
You just never know for sure until you try. Even using a dark brown layer won't guarantee olive green.

 

[Dmontgomery]

We got our 2nd green egg yesterday. It is smaller and just a little shade different in color. Would that be a different layer or the 2nd egg from a beginning layer?

 

[Selsley]

We got our 2nd green egg yesterday. It is smaller and just a little shade different in color. Would that be a different layer or the 2nd egg from a beginning layer?

our 4 hens lay 4 different shades of tan, and were consistent in colour, although some of our 1st eggs were shell less and at the extreme, not even in a membrane

 

[Dmontgomery]

Wow! So it's possible I may be able to figure out who layed which egg by the coloring? That would be great.

 

[duluthralphie]

Wow! So it's possible I may be able to figure out who layed which egg by the coloring? That would be great.

It is more than possible. You can use color, size and shape to tell which bird they come from, SOMETIMES. I can tell which one lays which egg on some of my birds. others I can just lump into breed.

Good luck on figuring out who did it!

 

[Dmontgomery]

It is more than possible. You can use color, size and shape to tell which bird they come from, SOMETIMES.  I can tell which one lays which egg on some of my birds. others I can just lump into breed.

Good luck on figuring out who did it!

I sit on the back porch 90% of the day so I see who goes in and out plus who's singing the "I layed an egg" song. The coop is only about 25 yards away.

 

[Selsley]

Wow! So it's possible I may be able to figure out who layed which egg by the coloring? That would be great.

yep, take some time in the garden watching the comings and goings

our pure araucana lays a blue egg shaped egg.
the less pure a green tinted almost round egg
our white lays a smaller really pale egg same as our orpington which produces our largest egg
then our darkest hen lays the darkest egg
and the rhode island a colour in between

we're lucky to only have a few layers right now of different breeds
so knowing who laid what is easy. but that will change when our 6 chicks grow up. if theyre hens of course

 

[Dmontgomery]

We bought 4 EE's, 4 BR's, 5 RIR's, and 19 RSL's this spring. Only the EE's look different enough that I can tell who's who. I don't know enough about them to know why one is silver, one is white, one tan, and one brown, but I know they don't look alike. We know the first big egg was Stella. The 2nd egg might have been her or Snow White. We weren't sure.
They are all about 5 months old (hatched 3/26). The RIR's started laying last week. The EE's this past weekend.

Stella's 1st egg is on the left. 2nd egg is from somebody, her or Snow White. The others are RIR's and an OEGB from the weekend.
3 eggs Sunday, 4 yesterday. 33 layers coming of age by the end of Sept. hopefully.