White Speckled Egg - can I intentionally breed for it?

[mermaid_of_the_farm]

Hello! I want to breed for egg color and feel like I have enough variety of hens and roosters to get started. My hens just started laying so I have been closely admiring and examining everyone's eggs. I have collected a few times this blue-green egg with white specks which I think is very lovely.

My questions are: is this a new layer characteristic or can I expect to see it continuously? Can I selectively breed for this kind of white speckled egg?

Thank you!

 

[LoveMyPeepers]

Based on my own experience (not positively sure) I think that it would continue to appear in the same coloring, but it is probably a characteristic of the specific hen, rather than an entire breed.

 

[mermaid_of_the_farm]

Based on my own experience (not positively sure) I think that it would continue to appear in the same coloring, but it is probably a characteristic of the specific hen, rather than an entire breed.

I'm curious! If they continue to appear this way I may hatch them and see if any offspring lay white speckled eggs.

 

[PaigeWells]

Is the white speckling a heavy bloom? Does it wash off or rub off? If a hen lays a heavy speckled bloom that is a genetic “defect” so it could be inheritable. Basically she unevenly applies her bloom, resulting in spots.

 

[mermaid_of_the_farm]

Is the white speckling a heavy bloom? Does it wash off or rub off? If a hen lays a heavy speckled bloom that is a genetic “defect” so it could be inheritable. Basically she unevenly applies her bloom, resulting in spots.

It doesn't rub off easily and every egg she lays has the white specks. I want to hatch a few of her eggs and maybe get some pullets to find out!

 

[PaigeWells]

It doesn't rub off easily and every egg she lays has the white specks. I want to hatch a few of her eggs and maybe get some pullets to find out!

Well then try- it would be interesting to see if her more speckled eggs made babies that layer more speckled, as opposed to any that were less speckled- I have hatched eggs in separate food grade mesh bags like onions come in- I ordered from amazon. Babies were fine in them, I put the eggs in at lockdown and thus could band babies with colored zip ties and I put the eggs into ziplocks individually and labeled them, 6 months later you can look back and see when the new girls reach POL. Plus then your husband has something (else) to complain about… “why do we have bags with eggshells in them- do I even want to know?”…