Whoops, how'd that happen?

[eggchel]

Notice anything funny about these eggs?
Like the color of some of them?
No, they are not from Ameraucana or Araucana hens.......

........they are from my Polish!

Has anyone else had Polish that lay blue eggs?

There is one Buff Laced hen and one Tolbunt X Buff hen (daughter of the Buff) that are laying blue eggs. The other Tolbunts and Gold Laced lay regular white eggs.

 

[canada-goose]

Wow! Easter Egg Polish! You could get a lot of money for those!

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

POST PICS OF THE POLISH! Gotta see them!

 

[Illia]

Nice eggs! gotta see the girls though

To make a colored egg laying Polish is a goal of mine for this summer.

 

[TurtleFeathers]

I thought I had a blue egg laying bantam Polish recently - some of my pullets were just at the point of lay, and all of a sudden I was finding blue eggs in their box. I was all excited, but come to find out my sneaky bantam EE hen, Raven was hopping the fence, going into the Polish house and laying an egg, and then hopping the fence back into her own pen!

Would love to see pics of your girls!

 

[Crunchie]

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Yes, this sounds oddly familiar...

Chel, are you sure you don't have a sneaky fence jumper, too?

If not, I guess somebody's got some "surprise!" genes!

 

[eggchel]

Chel, are you sure you don't have a sneaky fence jumper, too? tongue If not, I guess somebody's got some "surprise!" genes! lol

LOL I think that it must be the "surprise" genes!! The eggs were in a pen that is completely enclosed and the only Ameraucana that I still own are bantams (little eggs) that are also in a fully enclosed coop.

The source of the genes appears to be a buff polish hen that I got as a chick. I'll try to get a picture of her to post. I never noticed anything unusual about her, I just thought that she was a "bad" polish. I only acquired the buff chick to keep a lone tolbunt chick company and when they were mature, I just tossed the buff in to my sisters pen of misc. layers and never looked twice at her. I did use the buff laced hen to check the fertility of one of my tolbunt cockerels and noticed at that time that her eggs were blue. The gold laced pullet that hatched from that cross also lays blue eggs, so clearly there was some hanky panky somewhere in the ancestry of the buff laced hen.

I just went out to the layer pen to take pics and I can see that both of the blue egg layers arent just "bad looking polish", they have a much less full crest, kind of Elvis like, so they are undoubtedly carrying some ameraucana genes. LOL I should probably have looked at them more closely, but once an oddball pullet is dumped in my sister's layer pen, it is off my radar.

Perhaps a few more crosses with the tolbunt or the tolbunt/gold laced cock will bring the crest size back up and still keep the blue egg. That would be fun!