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Mike Gilbert:
John, have you identified the individual that lays the robin\'s egg blue egg?   Which variety?    If she is good otherwise, it might be interesting to breed one of her sons back to her to see if this color can be perpetuated, or even her sire if you still have him.

John:
I meant to mention it was from my LF lavender coop.  There are 15 pullets/hens in there.  A couple of the pullets are black/lavender split.  I assume it is the first egg of a pullet and I won\'t see anymore quite that color from her again, but time will tell.

Mike Gilbert:
Do you have any food coloring?   I personally would not be caught dead doing that, but for some it has worked.  But then I know each of my chickens on an individual basis by sight, and don\'t need legbands or other means of identification, so have never experienced the need.  It\'s not difficult to tell when a hen or pullet is laying, so I just put them in an individual cage to find out what kind/color of egg they lay if I need to know.

greeneggsandham:
That\'s a big egg for a pullet.  Compared to the other two.

John:
I\'m just guessing that it is from a pullet and actually I think due to the size it may be from one of the two \"split\" pullets, because they are extra big.  
I picked up a really big black pullet at the Frankfort show from Bob Rennolet and have crossed her to several varieties here just to increase size.  Except for her size she is nothing to right home about and her eggs were green.  She is the mama to the two black split girls.  FYI, her daughters that are from black and silver cocks are laying large blue eggs (they are in individual breeding coops, so I know for sure).  
I don\'t have the ambition to figure out which one laid the egg in photo at this time and will let you know if I get another like it. ;)  

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