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Title: blue and green eggs
Post by: Guest on February 26, 2008, 07:38:20 PM

hi everyone. Hope everyone has been as busy as me collecting eggs! Anyway, have hens laying blue eggs and some laying blue/green eggs. would like to separate hens laying greenish eggs so I can sell their eggs and hatch out the blue eggs. Question..how can I tell who is laying what? By the time I get home from work and collect eggs, they\'re all done for the day. Is there a trick to it? Thanks for any help in advance.

Title: blue and green eggs
Post by: Guest on February 26, 2008, 08:14:07 PM

 There is trap nest boxes , I saw in a Marans breeder site . I will try to find .

Title: blue and green eggs
Post by: Guest on February 27, 2008, 08:50:35 AM

 There is 2 trap boxes .

Title: blue and green eggs
Post by: Guest on February 27, 2008, 02:33:29 PM

If you plan to keep all your hens, does it really matter? Just set the blue ones.

Title: blue and green eggs
Post by: Guest on February 28, 2008, 02:44:04 PM

well, I was going to separate my non-beard hens from the others, hopefully my bearded ones aren\'t laying the greenish eggs. :o

Title: blue and green eggs
Post by: bantamhill on February 29, 2008, 01:49:56 AM

Do you have room to set up a pen for just the bearded hens? If it was me that is what I would do initially to get a feel for the egg shell color of the best type hens.

Michael

Title: blue and green eggs
Post by: Jean on February 29, 2008, 11:45:56 AM

If you have a wire cage, you can just put one in every night and leave her in there until she lays.  

If she lays a green egg, you can mark her with a green leg band and if it is blue, a blue leg band.  Just make sure you mark them so you don\'t keep grabbing the same chicken.

Jean

Title: blue and green eggs
Post by: Guest on February 29, 2008, 05:51:34 PM

 I found the Marans site that have chicken trap nests .

 http://www.marans.be/EN/pages/ChrisHome.htm

 See Diversen link .

 

Title: blue and green eggs
Post by: bantamhill on March 01, 2008, 10:08:51 AM

Quote from: jean

If you have a wire cage, you can just put one in every night and leave her in there until she lays.  

If she lays a green egg, you can mark her with a green leg band and if it is blue, a blue leg band.  Just make sure you mark them so you don\'t keep grabbing the same chicken.

Jean

What a great idea! Wish I would have thought of it.

Michael

Title: blue and green eggs
Post by: Guest on March 01, 2008, 10:52:42 PM

I\'ve read where you can put a small amount of food color in vent. For several days, it will mark the egg as it exits. Remember who gets which color.

Smile!

Title: blue and green eggs
Post by: Guest on March 02, 2008, 07:31:05 PM

wow. Thanks everyone. Some really great ideas.I do have some smaller pens that are empty. I\'ll put a hen in each one till I get an egg to see color. This is great. It is always great to see all the ideas out there. Thanks again.

Title: blue and green eggs
Post by: Tailfeathers on March 05, 2008, 09:17:13 PM

Now that \"food color\" idea is terrific.  I\'ve got a couple of GLW\'s and I\'m pretty sure one of them is laying a small, almost white egg.  

Now I know how to tell which one I need to cull.  I had heard about the trap nest boxes but thought they might be too expensive.  Thanks!!