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I'm pleased with my Coloured Egg layers this year
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 8:45 pm
by darkbrowneggs
Having kept my Marans for many years now, I have suddenly got interested in different coloured eggs. I am really pleased with them so far this year. All being well there should be some for hatching later in the season
This is what they have laid this year
Re: I'm pleased with my Coloured Egg layers this year
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:30 pm
by Milims
Ooooohhh pretty!

Re: I'm pleased with my Coloured Egg layers this year
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:19 am
by Millymollymandy
They are lovely!
Re: I'm pleased with my Coloured Egg layers this year
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:46 pm
by darkbrowneggs
Thanks - is there a way of posting a photo rather than just a link?

Re: I'm pleased with my Coloured Egg layers this year
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:54 pm
by Lost-in-the-Day
They looked like several boxes of yummy chocolates to me!

Re: I'm pleased with my Coloured Egg layers this year
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 8:31 pm
by Henwoman
They're brilliant. I am very jealous as the fox took my blue egg laying hens in the early summer and I don't have any Marans at the moment either. There's something really lovely about a display like yours.
Re: I'm pleased with my Coloured Egg layers this year
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 8:43 pm
by darkbrowneggs
Thanks everyone

Re: I'm pleased with my Coloured Egg layers this year
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:01 pm
by Henwoman
It's all your fault, darkbrowneggs, you made me remember how much I loved coloured eggs! I collected a trio of Cream Legbars at the weekend, so when they come into lay I shall have blue eggs again.
Re: I'm pleased with my Coloured Egg layers this year
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:22 pm
by darkbrowneggs
Well done, plenty of lovely "Easter Eggs" for you then

Re: I'm pleased with my Coloured Egg layers this year
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:24 pm
by Millymollymandy
darkbrowneggs wrote:Thanks - is there a way of posting a photo rather than just a link?

I think if you reduce the size to 720 pixels wide or less it will come up on the screen as that's the message I've been getting of late when I've tried to post pictures.
Re: I'm pleased with my Coloured Egg layers this year
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:49 am
by bill1953
Funny the way we find coloured eggs more appetising!. I am told that in the USA it's the other way around and they prefer the white eggs.
Re: I'm pleased with my Coloured Egg layers this year
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:34 pm
by Bristolbelle
What breed of hens lays the diffrent coloured eggs. And are any of them hybrids?
Re: I'm pleased with my Coloured Egg layers this year
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:57 pm
by darkbrowneggs
Right - worked out how to post photos - Hope its not too big
The darkest brown ones are from my Cuckoo Marans, the greeny ones (don't show well in the photo are from my Olive Eggers, and the blue (again look a bit bluer in real life) are from
Cream Legbars . The speckled ones are from my Higgledy Harriets
I am hoping to hatch out some ivory white ones and some more pinky coloured ones this year, and am switching on the inccy tomorrow
Re: I'm pleased with my Coloured Egg layers this year
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 7:24 pm
by bill1953
Great pic thanks

Re: I'm pleased with my Coloured Egg layers this year
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:41 pm
by Henwoman
Is this a joke? There's no picture showing for me.