egg color

I was wondering if a mix breed pullet's eggs are determined by the genetics of her mother or her father, or if it is random. For example, I have some chicks that are a mix of a Buckeye (Father) and a Black Copper Maran (Mother) so I was wondering if the hens would lay light brown eggs like a...

As the title - what color would a sapphire olive egger lay? Dark green or pastel? Trying to figure out what other breed and egg color to go for… thank you so much!

Hello! I have a bit of an obsession... Limited coop room and want to optimize egg colours for the amount of hens I can have. I can add a couple more chicks, any suggestions which breeds? The two last ones I don't yet know if they are hens or roos... Currently have chicks: - sapphire olive...

Hi everyone! I have two separate broods of chicks growing right now. One set is 2 weeks old and with a momma hen, the other batch is 8 weeks old and was just weaned. All are with the main flock since I hate integrating birds. The older chicks are all marans mixes (BCM and chocolate marans) and...

Hey guys!! My girls started laying and this is the first year for some!! I purchased a couple olive eggers last year. And I think one ended up laying blue eggs. I heard somewhere that the earlobes of your chicken can help dictate what color egg they lay (is this true?) Here is the color...

Hi! Many questions here about egg color So I am relatively new to chickens; we started our flock last June-ish. We ended up purchasing 4 older chickens to start, 3 barnvelders and 1 copper maran—Harriet Sr. (We now have 9 chickens, 4 older hens and then 5 pullets. The older hens all started...

If I hatch a cream legbar and polish cross what color eggs would they lay? Lighter blue or white?

Silkie eggs are supposed to be white or cream according to the standard of perfection. My growout pullets just started laying and the eggs look a bit too dark for a silkie to me. What do we think? Now I'm not sure if the girls laying these are my own bred girls or the ones I bought as hatching...

Hello, all! My Starlight Green Eggers started laying for me on Christmas!! Now, my Ameraucana roo just reached sexual maturity and has begun mounting my SGEs! I do want to keep 4 more hens in my flock and I'd like them to be colorful egg layers, so, my questions are as follows: 1.) Is it too...

We like to play the guessing game with our pullets, so we are wondering what color of egg this Easter Egger here will lay. This is Peanutbutter, she’s about sixteen weeks old, and I’ve read that sometimes leg colour and earlobe colour can give us a clue. I don’t have any good pictures of her...

Hello! This spring I purchased what I thought were 7 olive eggers, 3 mystic maran, 3 brahma and 2 americuanas. What I've ended up with are 2 black copper marans, 1 of which is a rooster, and 8 french black marans. However, the black copper maran hen is laying a sage colored egg and the french...

was making donuts today, and unfortunately my ladies aren’t producing as many eggs as recently it has been getting darker and gloomier, plus it was raining recently. so we had to buy store bought eggs, embarrassing!! but i cracked in an egg we collected today (top) and a store bought one...

What will I get when I cross these? I can’t seem to find info online about that happens with White egger males when bred. White Egg laying Roo(California White) over: White Egg (California White) = ? Pink Egg (Silkie) = ? Green Egg(Starlight Green Egger)= ? Brown egg(golden comet) = ? Also...

I have a Black Copper Maran who I believe had started laying. But the eggs I’m finding are light brown. I was under the impression they laid much darker brown eggs. What could be happening? It’s possible it could be a different chicken, but I just caught the BCM nosing around the nesting box so...

Hello everyone. Does anyone here know the Easter Egger genetics ,or cross breeds of Ideal poultry? From what I’ve learned so far Easter Eggers are a “mutt” and are not a recognized breed to the APA. They have genetics of the Ameraucana and some other breed. I did reach out to Ideal poultry...

Hi all! We hatched out eggs from a White Leghorn hen bred with an Ameraucana (not easter egger, not Americana) roo. The resulting offspring look like a White Leghorn with sporadic and random black splashes scattered here n' there. There is ONE girl offspring with a pea comb, the rest all have...

I've scoured the internet and haven't been able to find anything about this. The two newest members of my flock, Easter Eggers, have just started laying some lovely olive-brown eggs. It was cold today, and as I was holding the egg in my hand, I noticed it had changed colors where my fingers...

Anyone have any input on egg colors these girls might lay? First week of laying with 5 hens and we got 4 brown eggs. I’d say one or two of the girls are laying- hard to tell! Any input? Thank you!

Hi, so I have 6 light brown layers and 1 that lay’s green eggs but I would like to get a few other colors. Like blue, pink, dark brown etc. What breeds would you recommend that are good layers? Thanks

This thread is for oddballs that have popped up during breedings, whether it's a weird color chick/Adult bird, funky comb, toes(Polydactly), egg color, etc... Here's one of mine to start. Big Fatty, she's pure Malay, but doesn't look like it, she's just odd. Both parents are full sized, she...