What size are the Spitz eggs?
Compared to store bought, they are medium to large with white shells. I've seen duck egg candling pics, these are similar. You can actually see the embryo if you hold the egg in front of a sunny window!
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What size are the Spitz eggs?
All I can say is that most of my Easter Eggers that hatch out in a solid color have bluer eggs than those that hatch with wild pattern. Tiny, almost cushion pea combs accompany the intense blue. More comb = greater tendency to greens or single-blues.
Pick them based on combs. Small pea combs are tied with blue.
Yes, Ravyn's eggs were harder to see through than the "local farm" EEs. Those Spitzhauben eggs spoiled me, they were like tissue paper!
Look at pics of quality lines and how the combs look. I do sound like a broken record by now.
That's also how you can spot color enhanced blue egg shells.
Compared to store bought, they are medium to large with white shells. I've seen duck egg candling pics, these are similar. You can actually see the embryo if you hold the egg in front of a sunny window!
Very interesting! So, I'm doing a small project -really, just for fun- to try and get a blue laying sultan x EE. My 1st generation pullet (7 weeks right now) hatched a solid yellow color and has a teeny pea comb. So that might mean she has a decent chance of laying blue eggs?
-Banti
Great points on the pea combs... but just to add... he is looking at using Legbars as well... single combs on those...
Based on 19 years of raising Easter Eggers, that's what I've found. Shank color, muff size, all other factors are secondary to the comb. I work with birds of varied ancestry and bring in outside eggs regularly so it's not just my flock.
Yeah...Legbars are an unknown to me. Maybe earlobes?
WV can you tell me what I'm looking at?