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Yep. When a really dark egg layer gets a thick coating of blume on her egg, it makes the egg turn a beautiful lavender or plum purple coloring. Trouble is, this doesn't happen too often and breeding for it is even harder.
However, I do have some Araucanas who lay a constant layer of blume on their eggs, and when crossing them with the Marans, it will produce some constant blume-layers, with a small percent chance of some single combed offspring. (thus, they'll lay dark brown eggs with a blume; lavender/purple eggs)
Even the Olive Egger eggs with a blume will have a very different coloring.
I have an EE hen that with her blume her eggs look very pink, so I've got her in with the Ameraucanas to try to get chicks that will have that pink blume on blue/green eggs to try to get some purple eggers. She also consistantly has calcium deposits on her eggs, so they have white speckles too!
Apparently some of the ones I just sold have lavender eggs, ask CR...and I went in the nest boxes a few days ago, there were two, very rosy lavender eggs.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm I thought he was kidding when he said the birds I sold him laid lavender eggs.
I have some laying very pink eggs too.
And the best of all is the light green , GREEN (not avacado) with brown spots all over it.
It is a blue-green instead of yellow green like most OEs, and spotted !
I love it !
The bad part is no laying from the Ams yet, they seem to be very slow growing like the heritage breeds and it is winter..but they talk.
They are the most personalble birds, talking to me and of course I talk back...they are wonderful birds.
