The Poultry Keeper

fenwoman · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:46 pm Post subject: ebay eggs

On a whim I bought some eggs off ebay. The cockerel is a legbar and the hens are french marans. It will be very interesting to see what colour eggs the resulting pullets lay Smile

poultry poofs · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:40 pm Post subject:

wee g thinks they will be olive green -ish have to wait and see, Confused

be interesting to find out.

mojo · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:32 am Post subject:

hi fenny write on the calender to remind you to post the egg colour..me i think kaki what do you think.......luv mojo

fenwoman · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:32 am Post subject:

I think they should lay dark khaki looking eggs too. Be interesting to find out. Hopefully I will not hatch out all cockerels so this time next year I may have news about the egg colour. Will let you know.

Bernie · Joined: 08 Oct 2005 Posts: 13 Location: Lincolnshire

Yes will be interesting, i have a hen that has a legbar dad and maran mum and she lays blues eggs. I have a Frizzle with her at the mo so i am about to put some of them in the incubator so that should be interesting as to what comes out too!
bernie

Henwife · Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 3540 Location: Monmouthshire

I have 3 Cream Legbar(M) x Ancona pullets. One lays white eggs and the other two green. This year I have reared a gold Appenzeler pullet with the Cream legbars - logically her offspring should have crests that go straight up. I haven't the heart to put her into the Oddlot pen.