Tinted egg verses Easter egger

[Jabebee13]

Thanks very much. Good night and sweet dreams everyone.

 

[OmnipotentOrpington]

Yes, different colored eggs are wonderful. Different looking chickens are also wonderful! I have a little of both! Remember that a brown colored egg is just coated with what is called a "bloom". Crack it open and the inside of the shell is white. A blue or green egg is not a bloom, the color goes all the way through the eggshell to the inside. Tell this to your friends, show them and they will think you are the smartest person on the planet!

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hmm, so do white eggs not have a bloom? I thought that was what protected the eggs from the elements.

 

[NatJ]

The breed of Russian Orloff verses the egg of a EE... Is tinted egg somehow better? I currently don't have EE.

I'm not sure about "better," but the Orloffs will lay brown eggs, while the Easter Egger will usually lay blue or green eggs. A good thing about different colors is that you can tell which kind of hen laid which egg. So you can choose to hatch chicks that have a particular kind of mother, without having to divide the hens into different pens and without standing there to watch them lay each egg.

Remember that a brown colored egg is just coated with what is called a "bloom". Crack it open and the inside of the shell is white. A blue or green egg is not a bloom, the color goes all the way through the eggshell to the inside.

Not quite right.

An eggshell is white or blue on the inside.
On the outside, it can still be white or blue.

Or the outside can have a layer of brown on top, making it look either brown or green.
(The brown layer does not wash off, but can be scratched off with sandpaper if you want.)

On top of all that is the bloom. The bloom can sometimes make the egg look a different color: pink (brown egg), gray (blue or green egg), sometimes other colors. If you wash the egg with water, the bloom comes off, leaving an egg that is still brown or white or green or blue. Eggs sold in grocery stores in the USA have the bloom washed off, eggs in some other countries do not.

hmm, so do white eggs not have a bloom? I thought that was what protected the eggs from the elements.

You are right, bloom is on any color of egg, and helps protect the egg.

 

[Jabebee13]

Okay. Quote "without standing there to watch them lay each egg.".... I am good at knowing or finding out which hen laid what egg. I have marked eggs before , based on who is mommy bird. I try to keep only one rooster for ten hens. And I had 25 chickens once and two roosters. One was a bantam rooster.

 

[NatJ]

Okay. Quote "without standing there to watch them lay each egg.".... I am good at knowing or finding out which hen laid what egg. I have marked eggs before , based on who is mommy bird. I try to keep only one rooster for ten hens. And I had 25 chickens once and two roosters. One was a bantam rooster.

I was being a little silly about standing there to watch them; I do know that it's often possible to learn which hen lays which egg even when they are all "brown." But having different colors does make it more obvious.

Other than that, the only benefit I see to having different colors is that they're fun to see when collecting them and when cooking them

 

[Jabebee13]

Yes. Exactly. I currently have SLW hens... 1-4 based on wattles three might be males. They are reddish pink but not a dark red. Tan eggs. Or light brown. When they cluck I run and find what hen did it. And brown egg makers... RiR and BO. Buff not Blue orplingtons. I want to order EE and RO.

 

[Jabebee13]

I learned about bloom. So is a white egg clear bloom? I didn't know you can scrub off the brown. I wouldn't recommend it. If breeding purposes.

 

[NatJ]

I learned about bloom. So is a white egg clear bloom? I didn't know you can scrub off the brown. I wouldn't recommend it. If breeding purposes.

I don't know if the bloom on a white egg is clear or if it's white, but it's one of those.

Scrubbing off the brown: it can be fun to scrub some off with sandpaper once, just to see that it does come off, but I don't know of any other good reason to do it.

 

[Jabebee13]

I'm just saying I'll have a fun time differentiating between which momma made what brown egg. I agree. It's all part of the job of chicken farming. If I got Russian orloff they'd be making brown eggs. Good to know. Maybe I'll get EE first to see their blue and green eggs. They taste just like white eggs.

 

[garlandchickens]

Were you asking if they taste different or candle different?
All eggs taste the same, no matter the color. The only reason an egg would taste different is the feed the layers are given. It's kinda like human hair, all hair is hair no matter the color.
As for candling, the color shouldn't matter. I don't think EEs are broody easily, they haven't in my experience. I don't know anything about the other breed you mentioned. Hope this helps a little.