My turken hen lays a jumbo egg that looks pink next to brown or white eggs. The chicken charts say she's supposed to lay medium brown eggs. Don't tell her!
Some one here previously mentioned that their Maran laid the pink egg with chalky coating. This could be the case with mine too there is one more Maran in the group. But I was pretty sure I saw the NHR sitting there trying to lay.
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I just got on to see what kind of chicken lays pink eggs. I have 6 breeds right now and I isolated some young ones to figure out which ones are roos. Everytime an egg is laid we use process of elimination to see who done it! (we had issues with feather plucking this year so tail feathers are not available signs of identification)
I always figured they were EE's but we got a pink egg out of the small group today. Our isolated group has NO Ameraucana in it! There are New Hampshire Reds, Buff Chantecler, and Cuckoo Marans. And one of them lays pink, we have pink eggs from some of the other girls too. Unfortunately they seem to be brown eggs with a chalky pink coating on top. But they are pretty none the less!
Take a look!
The dark one on the left is from a cuckoo, green = EE, Light tan is usually dominique, and light brown usually New Hampshire Red. Pink in the front? I thought I saw a New Hampshire Red sitting in that corner for a while today! She's the one I pulled out anyway. We'll see in the next few days I suppose.
I'm thinking you might have to take some time to build a flock of pink egg layers. (If it even works that way.) I have some EE's that have pinkish eggs. And a Marans with that chalky coating. When wet it looks darker. I wonder if you can hatch pink ones and get a roo and start a flock. I know they work on dark eggs like that. fun project. I personally like the speckled ones.
Ok, so I think it was a cuckoo maran laying the pink eggs (by process of elimination). I also had a pink egg hatch in the incubator today! It came out black. The daddy is a dominique, so I guess it would be a cuckoo dominique. Which really isn't too much of a stretch...
It was my first time using an incubator so I just used eggs from the girls, they are almost all crosses. I just had to try it out to see if I could do it, and we needed a few more birds in the freezer.