What is your favorite color of eggs?

[Ascholten]

I have one that lays pink eggs. Pretty consistantly, BUT oddly, if something really upsets her, like a hawk dive or something, or a possum scaring them all out of the coop in the middle of the night. The eggs will actually turn about white for a day or so. Their texture is really coarse too on the shell. it's really strange. I could see going back to just brown, but white, that's kind of wierd.

she's kind of in a unfriendly mood when she lays those too, im thinking poor girl had her butt sandpapered by that rough shell. I'd be butthurt too !

Aaron

 

[SandyRiverChick]

I'm amused by your signature listing not only your flock but your kid in college and a "mountain man."

I can be amusing, thanks. I've definitely been called worse so I'll take it, And likewise I like this: Not afraid to suck at something new! Let's do this.

 

[PicoFarm]

I can be amusing, thanks. I've definitely been called worse so I'll take it, And likewise I like this: Not afraid to suck at something new! Let's do this.

Your set-up sounds like fun ---> Amusing.

Thanks for your comment on mine. I experiment with different ideas. Sometimes they even work out. For example, I did some habitat management and invasive species control along a shared fence line. It worked well in that after 3 years, I finally saw some deer. Unfortunately, they also got after my fruit trees and garden.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I adopted a pink-y purple egg layer one time...

I bred her to a green egg gene rooster, it is how I got gray egg layer...
Below are the parents, I am guessing a maran was involved with the the splash hen "Sally", The dad was a frizzle rooster "Silver" whom I was not crazy about, I replaced him as our rooster.

After I saw his baby. I regretted my decision. but it was too late.

This is her egg.

I still have her daughter in this breed line. I want to breed her with a blue rooster. She lays a dark gray egg.

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

I had a few Americauna's at one time, both were psychotic. I mean genuinely. Id be there with the other 4 all around me eating, getting rubbed, snack time and the one would be about 5 feet away screaming at me like I was attacking her. She'd not go in the coop with the others and Id have to go get her at night, when I did grab her she'd scream at the top of her lungs with the most horrifying pity enducing death cry you ever heard, like I was a hawk tearing her lungs out right on the spot.

id be feeding one of the other birds and she'd just out of nowhere go into panic and spook the rest of them, all because I reached into a feed bag, and she's standing 10 feet away. I ended up getting rid of her, she never would lay eggs and I couldn't take the crap anymore from her, all she did is upset and make the others jittery all day.

I got another Americauna, from the same person, and this bird was retarded, it took me about a week to figure out what was with her but I finally did, animals can suffer retardation, which in the wild, usually takes them out, but this one survived, and was just.... stupid. This leads me to believe either Scotty got a real bad line of birds, or they are stupid / psychotic by nature. I was hoping for blue eggs, never did get a one.

Now I got 5 birds again which technically is my limit if I follow the rules of the city, YSR, and in a chicken tractor, is plenty.

aaron

Our Easter Eggers are sweet. I think you always have those strains of chickens who are...different, to say the least.

the eggs with this post are not natural color right? If by some miricale i want to know what kind of Hen lated the purple egg

No, the egg picture in the post is not natural colors.

My Maran egg was triple yolked.
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Wow! That's something I've never seen before! That poor hen, though.

I'm interested to know what breed you are thinking of when you list "Maroon" as an egg color ??
Here is my existing flocks hard day of work, in front of the Quality Inspecter....

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Cuckoo Marans (and I'm pretty sure other Marans) lay maroon eggs. It's a mix of red-brown.

I adopted a pink-y purple egg layer one time...

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I bred her to a green egg gene rooster, it is how I got gray egg layer...
Below are the parents, I am guessing a maran was involved with the the splash hen "Sally", The dad was a frizzle rooster "Silver" whom I was not crazy about, I replaced him as our rooster.
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After I saw his baby. I regretted my decision. but it was too late.
View attachment 3310422This is her egg.View attachment 3310427
I still have her daughter in this breed line. I want to breed her with a blue rooster. She lays a dark gray egg.

Thanks for sharing how to get a gray egg! I was wondering which genes you would need.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I'd love to have grey eggs! I'm officially jealous

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

I only have some light blue layers, light tan/pink and browns so far but I love Maroon eggs, I bought a black copper maran for the darker eggs but she isn’t laying. I also have a prairie Bluebell which I heard is supposed to have Robin blue eggs but she is still too young, can’t wait to see what colors I’ll end up with!

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

I adopted a pink-y purple egg layer one time...

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I bred her to a green egg gene rooster, it is how I got gray egg layer...
Below are the parents, I am guessing a maran was involved with the the splash hen "Sally", The dad was a frizzle rooster "Silver" whom I was not crazy about, I replaced him as our rooster.
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After I saw his baby. I regretted my decision. but it was too late.
View attachment 3310422This is her egg.View attachment 3310427
I still have her daughter in this breed line. I want to breed her with a blue rooster. She lays a dark gray egg.

That’s gorgeous!

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

I'm interested to know what breed you are thinking of when you list "Maroon" as an egg color ??
Here is my existing flocks hard day of work, in front of the Quality Inspecter....

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Love that dark speckled egg and that cat so pretty, much be a pain to groom though

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

I only have some light blue layers, light tan/pink and browns so far but I love Maroon eggs, I bought a black copper maran for the darker eggs but she isn’t laying. I also have a prairie Bluebell which I heard is supposed to have Robin blue eggs but she is still too young, can’t wait to see what colors I’ll end up with!View attachment 3310538View attachment 3310539View attachment 3310540

I forgot that Prairie Bluebells were a breed! Are their eggs really almost robin egg-colored?