What color are your Welsummer eggs?

[math ace]

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The 2 really dark eggs in the center are what my marans eggs look like. Are those two eggs from your marans or your welsummers ? ?

 

[jf1234]

I get one lovely light terracota egg and one pure white egg from my two (22 week) welsummers!
Go figure?? Why I have no idea!

Jayne

 

[math ace]

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Oh that is terrible on the white egg. Where did you get the welsummers from ? ?

 

[Happy Chooks]

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The 2 really dark eggs in the center are what my marans eggs look like. Are those two eggs from your marans or your welsummers ? ?

Those are my welsummer eggs. My Marans eggs are darker than those. They do vary in color though, some days the wellie eggs are not that dark. In the heat, they really lighten up as do the Marans eggs.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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I THINK I got my first Welsummer egg today and it looked like yours rdport . . .. . .

I have a marans too. I was expecting the welsummers to be closer to the color of my marans. Instead, their egg was closer to the color of my wyandotte.

MY QUESTION - - - WILL THEY GET DARKER or is this all I am going to get out of them ? ? ? ?


(I will post pictures in a few days. . . . I have two welsummers - - - so I want to wait for the other to start laying. HOPEFULLY it will be any day )

They will get darker. My first few eggs from my wellies were not colored great at all. It took about a week to get some nice color in the eggs.

 

[jf1234]

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Oh that is terrible on the white egg. Where did you get the welsummers from ? ?

I'm over in the uk, got them from a local breeder, I'll have to let him know for future reference. but on the positive side, she is a lovely chuck, what every the colour of her egg. I just hope she starts to lay a few more, she's very hit and miss.

Will her egg colour change? She is a good looking welsummer, but she does have silver legs, red ears and is quite biege on her tummy, a bit lighter than the other welsummer.

Jayne

 

[math ace]

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They will get darker. My first few eggs from my wellies were not colored great at all. It took about a week to get some nice color in the eggs.

THANK you - - - I don't think I have collect another welsummers egg since posting. I am de-worming everyone and perhaps I stressed her . . ..

The poor girls are spending day 3 in their coop / run. They haven't been ab;e to do the daily free ranging that occured before I started de-worming them. TODAY is the LAST DAY for de-worming. Tomorrow, I will let them out of de-worming JAIL and let them free range. . . . MAYBE, I'll see an egg then . . .

ONLY 1 hen out of 9 laid yesterday. They were not happy girls at all !

 

[rainierlass]

The dark ones in this pic are from my Wellies...they are hatchery birds (Welp)....am not sure about the lighter speckled ones..........could be from them too - - their eggs are never the same but almost always terra cotta colored.........

 

[Uzuri]

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My Wellies started light and moved to speckled, then dark so it's *possible* that you could see a change. Sounds like her paint can may be broken, though! You know a brown egg is just a white egg with added pigments -- the shells of both are white to start.

 

[damselfish]

I get some that are kind of medium-dark (lighter than the darkest ones on this thread), some with small spray-paint speckles and some that have beautiful big speckles. And this is all from one girl. She's about 1.5 years old and is one of my most faithful layers. Nice big eggs too. Neurotic, unfortunately, but you can't have everything....

She is from Estes Hatchery.