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Squidge



Joined: 17 Dec 2007
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Location: Folkestone, Kent
PostPosted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 9:17 pm    Post subject: Blue Eggs Question. Reply with quote
As I'm not an expert (but a lot of you on here are) I'd like to ask about blue eggs. As I understand it blue eggs are only laid by Araucana and Cream Legbars and some crosses. Is that true? Also are the eggs all a sort of pale blue or are there any really sky blue egg layers? At the moment I have eggs of every hue except blue and then that should be all the chickens I need.......Did I say that last bit.....!
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Henwife



Joined: 31 Jan 2006
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Location: Monmouthshire
PostPosted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 9:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
To produce a blue egg, there must be araucana in the breed - which is why Cream Legbars do. The eggs can vary in colour from sky blue to pale green. I'm still trying to work out who deposited a sky blue one in the bantam run yesterday - first time layer, but I've got a lot of Oddlots in there too.
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Squidge



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 12:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'd be interested to know if you find out.
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Henwife



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 7:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'd forgotten that some of the older Cream legbars were in there as they are too brown to go with the breeders - at over 30 weeks now, it would have been one of them.
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