Which do you prefer? Egg color or bird colors.

[Nimueh Alene]

I have discovered that I would rather hatch out a surprise of different colored chicks than have a basket of different colored eggs... Anyone else want to chime in.
I figured that those beautiful eggs even though very pretty they are very temporary as compared to those beautiful birds.

 

[TattooedChicks]

Some egg color variety is nice, to help ID new layers and what not, but I love taking pictures of pretty birds.

 

[Folly's place]

Having both is best! Colorful birds, and interesting egg colors in the boxes.
Mary

 

[Nimueh Alene]

This is what my Serama Silkie mix hen hatched for me last Sunday.

 

[AlleysChicks]

I honestly like both. I love the colorful eggs in my basket but my birds are colorful as well.

 

[Nimueh Alene]

Some egg color variety is nice, to help ID new layers and what not, but I love taking pictures of pretty birds.
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Are those Seramas?

 

[TattooedChicks]

Are those Seramas?

Not quite, the buff cockerel their bigger cousin, the Japanese. The first is a Bantam EE, the last is a sebright.

 

[lazy gardener]

You can have both. My EE roo produces a wonderful variety of chicks, and his pullets produce: blue, green, aqua, cream, olive, and brown eggs. My birds include red, black, partridge colors with and without muffs and beards. Pea, rose, walnut, and straight combs.

 

[Bridger Davis]

Cool idea for a thread! If I'm allowed to chime in with something duck related.... I am getting a couple of Cayuga ducks that are not only iridescent but they also lay black eggs. And my magpies have a chance of laying blue eggs sometimes too. So I don't know, I guess I would rather prefer cool eggs to attract customers and tell the difference between who laid them, but I do enjoy pretty birds too...

 

[Doc McCluckins]

I am all about the birds. I keep bantams so eggs aren't really a focus for me anyway. I am all about some pretty chickens though! Friendly is a plus too I hatch all the eggs I get so it matters not to me what color they are as long as they hatch lol.