What is your favorite color of eggs?

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Easter Eggers can lay blue, green, and pink, but not olive or any other color unless there's a mix of some other genes there.

I've had a hatchery Easter-egger lay olive-colored eggs. Perhaps not as deep of an olive color as a purposefully-bred olive-egger, but certainly an olive green color nonetheless. Plenty of people have been disappointed by tan and brown eggs from Easter-eggers they'd hoped would lay blue or green. And, though fairly unlikely, white and dark brown technically could pop up under the right set of circumstances. Just like there aren't really any hard rules about what an Easter-egger can look like, there really are no hard rules for what color an Easter-egger can lay, beyond that obviously they can only lay a color that it's possible for a chicken to lay--so you won't get navy blue or bright yellow eggs from them, for example.

 

[Ascholten]

-so you won't get navy blue or bright yellow eggs from them, for example.

Yet... im sure someone is working right now on the perfect mutt to do just that

Aaron

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

I've had a hatchery Easter-egger lay olive-colored eggs. Perhaps not as deep of an olive color as a purposefully-bred olive-egger, but certainly an olive green color nonetheless. Plenty of people have been disappointed by tan and brown eggs from Easter-eggers they'd hoped would lay blue or green. And, though fairly unlikely, white and dark brown technically could pop up under the right set of circumstances. Just like there aren't really any hard rules about what an Easter-egger can look like, there really are no hard rules for what color an Easter-egger can lay, beyond that obviously they can only lay a color that it's possible for a chicken to lay--so you won't get navy blue or bright yellow eggs from them, for example.

True, I didn't think about that. And yes, they are basically mutts. Although there is a stopping point to where the mixed-in genetics can go, right? Because then they'd just be a barnyard mix, not even an Easter Egger.

That's just my thoughts, though. I'm still new to all this genetic stuff

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Although there is a stopping point to where the mixed-in genetics can go, right? Because then they'd just be a barnyard mix, not even an Easter Egger.

Yes, though that stopping point really depends on your definition of what an Easter-egger is. Definitions can be as narrow as ONLY birds related to Ameraucanas count as true Easter-eggers, or as broad as any bird with at least an ancestor at some point that had a blue egg gene, which would also include the Legbar-based mixes and mixes of other blue egg gene breeds. I fall into the latter category, personally. It's that potential to have inherited the blue egg gene while not conforming to the look of any specific breed that makes them an Easter-egger to my mind, nothing more. But it still gives you a line past which a bird becomes just a mix and no longer an Easter-egger.

 

[Potatofluffycheeksforever]

My favourite colour of egg is blue because I had a hen the layed the brightest blue eggs I’ve ever seen they were so beautiful. . .

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

Yes, though that stopping point really depends on your definition of what an Easter-egger is. Definitions can be as narrow as ONLY birds related to Ameraucanas count as true Easter-eggers, or as broad as any bird with at least an ancestor at some point that had a blue egg gene, which would also include the Legbar-based mixes and mixes of other blue egg gene breeds. I fall into the latter category, personally. It's that potential to have inherited the blue egg gene while not conforming to the look of any specific breed that makes them an Easter-egger to my mind, nothing more. But it still gives you a line past which a bird becomes just a mix and no longer an Easter-egger.

Your point makes more sense than mine! Thanks for sharing it. I, personally, think they can only be "true" Easter Eggers (I put "true" in quotes because EEs can have some genes mixed in) if they have muffs and/or a beard. Again, that's just my perspective because anyone can make up their own Easter Egger "standard of perfection" as long as it makes sense.

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

My favourite colour of egg is blue because I had a hen the layed the brightest blue eggs I’ve ever seen they were so beautiful. . .

Which breed was she? Or was she a mix?

 

[sjango]

@SwampPrincessChick They have some of the most beautiful eggs of any breed I've kept.

 

[sjango]

These are the rumpless ones, correct?

You're probably thinking of Colloncas, a landrace from South America (ancestral to Araucana) that are also a Rapanui type. The Colloncas are typically rumpless. Raraku and Colloncas share some history and are both considered Rapanui class landraces.

 

[Potatofluffycheeksforever]

Which breed was she? Or was she a mix?

She was a mix, but I do know that she had some Easter egger in her. She grey with a bit of rust colour lacing some of her feathers.