True Green Eggs

[nicalandia]

Just got myself an Easter Egger that lays green eggs, not my first but it's been like 20 years since I had one, years ago I purchased a few green eggs from my local market sadly they were not fertile so I experimented with them, I used sand paper and revealed the blue under color, I cracked the egg and after removing the egg sack to reveal the egg shell, no surprise here as it was blue.

In the past I've seen a few pinkish brown eggs that where also pinkish on the inside(unlike store bought brown eggs that are white on the inside), I have always wondered if such genetics would allow for a true green egg(outside and inside) well my EE hen is laying that type of eggs, I was telling my wife, look at this green egg and see how it turns blue(with a 100 grit sand paper), well it never turned blue, I cracked the egg and it was green also..

To my friends here that hatch Olive Eggers, are yours Olive inside too?

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Just got myself an Easter Egger that lays green eggs, not my first but it's been like 20 years since I had one, years ago I purchased a few green eggs from my local market sadly they were not fertile so I experimented with them, I used sand paper and revealed the blue under color, I cracked the egg and after removing the egg sack to reveal the egg shell, no surprise here as it was blue.

In the past I've seen a few pinkish brown eggs that where also pinkish on the inside(unlike store bought brown eggs that are white on the inside), I have always wondered if such genetics would allow for a true green egg(outside and inside) well my EE hen is laying that type of eggs, I was telling my wife, look at this green egg and see how it turns blue(with a 100 grit sand paper), well it never turned blue, I cracked the egg and it was green also..

To my friends here that hatch Olive Eggers, are yours Olive inside too?

They should be blue on the inside, I believe. Olive is a mix of the dark chocolate brown egg genes with the blue...

eta, so your green eggs were a lighter brown mixed with the blue.

 

[nicalandia]

so your green eggs were a lighter brown mixed with the blue.

What I am seeing is that the brown pigment is permeating thru the egg shell and blending with the blue, it's just not brown painted ontop like most eggs I've seen. Perhaps all of the brown eggs do this to a point and then the brown pigment stops permeating and continues ontop of the egg shell.

 

[nicalandia]

Wow, is really hard to get replies to my threads here.

 

[Amer]

You aren’t crazy. Unfortunately I don’t really have any example right now, but I’ll check soon. I have high hopes for the Ameraucana Dominique bantam cross, not so much for the Ameraucana Welsummer cross.
I’ve observed that the dark dark layers have white insides while cream layers spread the pigment throughout, so I wouldn’t be surprised if a cross was the same way.
Egg color is definitely polygenic and I think one of the factors that affect outward appearance would be whether or not the pigment is only applied on top.
— you probably already knew that though.
I’d be interested in seeing replies as well.

 

[Cryss]

@AMERAUCANAS4REAL are you saying the cream layers would lay such an egg, green inside as well as outside?
I think it's a slow thread because no one has seen this before maybe.

 

[Amer]

@AMERAUCANAS4REAL are you saying the cream layers would lay such an egg, green inside as well as outside?
I think it's a slow thread because no one has seen this before maybe.

Yep.
Also it was started late at night for most of us.

 

[nicalandia]

@AMERAUCANAS4REAL are you saying the cream layers would lay such an egg, green inside as well as outside?
I think it's a slow thread because no one has seen this before maybe.

I believe that, at least on breeds that have an established egg color, not a white + brown = cream like one can make by mating a white egg shell breed with a brown egg shell breed

 

[nicalandia]

Also it was started late at night for most of us.

Really, where are you located? In Europe? I am in Nicaragua but I was raised in the USA that is why I like to help around here.

 

[Amer]

My Ameraucanas are molting or broody currently so there’s nothing to compare in the blue spectrum... but...
Here are my eggs.
You can clearly see a difference between green and brown, and white/light tint (Ancona pullets) even if the green is edging on brown.

My two green egg layers.
I’m don’t know if they’ve yet molted or not.
You can see that the layer of larger eggs (half Welsummer) also has darker eggs.

So I cracked them open. White. Well duh, the membranes are still on.
Then I peeled off the membranes. The eggs were white inside! I swear they had been blue inside before!
Or my eyes are just broken.