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An olive egg is a blue shell with a brown coating....the shell will stay pretty much the same color, but the brown coating can vary.
Do OE'S egg color change drastically? The bottom row starting at the green egg and moving right are from my only OE (a legbar / rhodebar cross ) . We know the blue on the far right is hers because she was in the nest box this morning and we waited for her to finish when we checked. I have two legbars, and I've gotten three blue eggs the last two days.
Thanks!
Very pretty eggs!Latest OE pullet, her first egg(a 40g DY!) was laid within an hour or so of when her matriarch had to be put down a few weeks ago. Serendipity, Fate, Coincidence.....whatever you want to call it.
I finally got some pics of her today. So sire is Welsummer, mama was a blue laying EE.
Didn't think she would lay green....yellowish legs, no beard, crinkled single comb...
......but sure enough, look at that.
Now these are not the Deep Dark Olive most of us desire, Woody's sister lays a mediocre wellie egg so......
Top 3 are from hens of last years hatching, same cock x hen.
Bottom egg is from LLP just this morning, big for a pullet egg - probably a double yolker, she had to really push to get it out.(ETA:just weighed that sucker 68g!!)
LLP
LLP
LLP comb pics
LLP's Sire - Woody the Welsummer
LLP's 'mama', Blue Egg Laying Lucille
Lucilles blue eggs.
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Do OE'S egg color change drastically? The bottom row starting at the green egg and moving right are from my only OE (a legbar / rhodebar cross ) . We know the blue on the far right is hers because she was in the nest box this morning and we waited for her to finish when we checked. I have two legbars, and I've gotten three blue eggs the last two days.
Thanks!
It is interesting that when you get so much brown over coating the shell it just starts to look brown more than green. That and the more productive the layer if the blue fades under it doesn't help.