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Egg Color
Jean:
Mike,
To tell you the truth, I have no idea. I put all of last years pullets in one big room in the new building two weeks ago tomorrow.
My husband is going to finish a room or two tomorrow so I can seperate my silvers and my wheatens/blue wheatens. If I get lucky he will get three rooms done and I can pull out the whites too.
My theory is that the wheatens/blue wheatens are laying the light blue and possibly one of the silvers.
My buffs do not have good egg color, so I would guess the greens came from them or the whites.
I do not keep any blacks or blues for breeding that lay that green of an egg, so shouldn\'t be them.
The extreme ones I have not figured out yet. I have been trying to breed the best blue egg program here.
I have around 150 chickens right now. When I get the pens set up, the first thing I am doing is removing hens and pullets which do not lay a blue or minty green egg. They will go into my laying facility and if they don\'t produce there, they will be culled.
I hope to hatch alot of eggs again this year to propigate the blue egg gene. I have a black hen that lays a spectacular egg and I plan to use her to improve my whites egg color and to improve the general qualities of my silvers. She will be a busy lady.
When I find out which variety is laying those eggs I will let you know.
So much for my life story.... :rolleyes:
Jean
Jean:
Mike,
The rounder one on the far right is being laid by a blue hen. I caught her in the act yesterday.
Jean
Guest:
I can never judge color very well on the internet, but at least on my monitor, those are the nicest blue eggs I\'ve seen yet.
I\'m curious, are the birds producing these colors, good layers? I\'ve read that the better blues tend to come from birds that do not lay as well. Any truth to this?
Jean:
Thanks for the compliments, but I would like to point out that I got my original black and blue stock from John Blehm, Paul Smith and Lisa Cree. So they are truely the founders of my blue eggs.
I personally don\'t think the color of the egg has anything to do with laying ability.
My pullets were slow to lay this past winter because they were exposed to the elements and other \"things\" I will not mention as I would be pointing fingers. :rolleyes:
But since I have put them inside they have started up and been very regular.
Jean
PS I think the egg color in the picture is pretty accurate since I put the brown and green eggs in there, usually my photos tend to look greener than the actually are.
Paul:
I finally found time to put my two cents in. I would not set the browner colored egg laying horizontal on the left. I would set the rest of them and watch for a good breeding male out of the bottom four. Good egg color is not easily achieved. We have some blue and black pullets, full sisters, that are from three generations of good blue eggs. Their mother, a blue pullet, laid our best blue eggs last year. She was mated to a good black cockerel out of a blue egg. These pullets started laying about a month ago they laid every shade of blue and green imaginable at first, but now have started laying good colored blue eggs. The weather has changed so much this season, and with not putting lights with a timer on the females this time, its been difficult to get eggs.
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