The EE braggers thread!!!

[Wishing4Wings]

Well, I don't know if anyone is interested since this involves a BO and RIR, but:
-My Buff Orpington used to lay an occasional pink egg when she first started laying. It was sort of a putty color. Her eggs are more of a light brown now.
-Also, my RIR layed an egg that was lavender with white speckles. Sorry, I don't remember if the inside of either egg was white but they probably were.

Rhodies lavender egg is on the left and Buffy's pinkish egg is on the right. The back of the carton shows their normal light brown colors. Click on the photo to make it bigger.

Now if my 2 EE would start laying I really would have a nice variety!

Thanks for posting! I think I can see how the white outer coating Illia mentioned affects the color, especially on the RIR egg. I didn't even know there was a white coating!

Hope your EEs start laying soon. Post some more pics. There's a new thread to focus on EE eggs. EE's EGGs - who, where, when, what (let's track who laid what and who hatched from what)

 

[Illia]

I love your Polish-EEs! Very cute and distinguished at the same time.

I'm a bit confused about the egg shell colors. I had thought, as you said, that shells were either white or blue, and if a brownish coat went on as an outer layer, the eggs look brown or green respectively, but the inside of the shell would show the base shell color (white or blue). So when you say pink eggs are brown eggs with a white coating, did they start as white shells, get a brown coat, and then a white coat? How common is the white coat? (This is new concept for me.) Also, do you think it's possible that the brown (pinkish) coat could somehow mix more deeply through the shell so that it looks pinkish on the inside as reported?

I'm not trying to start a feud or anything

, just very curious. Looking at your avatar, you obviously have a huge amount of experience with egg colors. Is there a good reference about this topic that you can recommend?

Thanks for the info!

I forgot about blue.

Yes, blue eggs have blue inner shells. Whoops.

Pink eggs are brown eggs (white inside, brown outside) with either just a lighter color than the normal brown or a bloom over them. (blume? bloom?) A white coating that can cover the entire egg, half the egg, or even speckle it. The white coating is actually very common with new pullets of any brown layer. I've never seen nor heard of a true case of pink insides. Pink eggs have the same white interior that brown, purple, dark brown, speckled, and terra cotta eggs have.

 

[qldchook]

Oh Alice, you are considered so strange by your Australian family! Your cheeks puff up so you look like a cobra, you are so possesive of the rooster you battle hens 5 times (Plynouth rock) your size! You were bought in desperation sight unseen (small bantam hen needed) because your hubby is 12 yrs old & had outlived even his granddaughters. My dad picked you up & thought you were so pretty, I am sorry, I thought you were very ugly. Oliver (rooster) adores you, and you are so IN OUR FACE and everyone elses that now if my sisters make fun, I am the first to say" Don't be nasty, I love Alice". This was my welcome to EES- a breeed I did not know existed.

 

[ronott1]

For the pink egg layer group:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/303042/pink-egg-layers

 

[Shell1981]

Do you happen to have photos of your chickens as chicks - maybe 2 weeks old? I have two chicks and one looks to have the same feathering and color. I'm wondering if he/she will look like your chickens when gown up a bit? Here's a pic of them a little more than a week old...

 

[Shell1981]

Sorry...I'm new at this. My post above was meant for 2StrayRoos. Thanks!

 

[Shell1981]

So...I think I've got two EE's from the research I've done online. They were sold to me as Araucanas, but seeing as how rare those birds are, I doubt it. Also, did anyone have chicks that looked like these and have photos of what your chickens look like grown up? I'm soooo curious to know how they'll look after they get their "big kid" feathers.

 

[cheeka]

Do you happen to have photos of your chickens as chicks - maybe 2 weeks old? I have two chicks and one looks to have the same feathering and color. I'm wondering if he/she will look like your chickens when gown up a bit? Here's a pic of them a little more than a week old...

so cute! I have one, like the one in the back. turned out to be a roo, but he's awesome, here he is



here he is only 2 days old, I have to find my other memory card, it has all the baby pics...

this is him now



he's very interesting personality wise, he's 13 weeks tomorrow, so far so good, he likes me,
I'm the treat dispenser

 

[ronott1]

So...I think I've got two EE's from the research I've done online. They were sold to me as Araucanas, but seeing as how rare those birds are, I doubt it. Also, did anyone have chicks that looked like these and have photos of what your chickens look like grown up? I'm soooo curious to know how they'll look after they get their "big kid" feathers.

Yes, Beautiful EEs

The yellow legs and feet are a give away.

Ron

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Yes, Beautiful EEs

The yellow legs and feet are a give away.

Ron

And the puffy cheeks

(Thanks for the pink egg link, Ron!

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