Such an egg-citing time!I'm at three, #4 is zipping. Others are popping out too.
I'm always learning something new. I though if I bred my EE hens to my high production rooster (brown shells) I would get blue eggs. NOT! It's a green egg. A very pretty bright green egg. I need to figure out how to make more blue eggs.
My understanding is that the brown and blue are different processes, that brown is a "covering" over the shell. The inside of brown eggs is white, and the inside of blue eggs is blue. The green egg should have a bluer inside, if you scrub the outside, the green comes off and its bluer underneath. If you want higher quantity of eggs, breed high production white egg layer with Ameraucana, and the result should be blue or light blue eggs. That's the theory, anyway. I'm trying to confirm it by personal experience. I have an Amer rooster, one Amer hen (the pretty blue egg), one Marans (hoping for olive), leghorns, several production brown layers, and some green and blue laying EEs - and 27 chicks from the bunch. The plan is to keep them til they lay to find out - but that will be Sept/Oct.
I love blue eggs!
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