Re: green eggs

Gordon Henderson wrote:
In article <dvf4v1$m9r$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
James Fidell <james@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have on my desk six Cream Legbar eggs, which are apparently supposed
to be green. They don't look too green to me at all though. Perhaps
like one of those "white, with the merest hint of green" paints you get
that only look at all green if you hold up something genuinely white
against them. The eggs were from the Devon Traditional Breed Centre
(www.dtbcentre.co.uk), so I'm hoping they're reasonably representative
of the breed.


I have a cream legbar out of the very same place and she's just
started laying. See http://www.drogon.net/clutch.jpg for a very crappy
mobile-phone photo of her first egg.

She's laid 3 so-far and they are all a nice pale pastel blue rather than
green. Sure you think they are supposed to be green?

The books I've read say green to blue, depending on the bird. Either
way, the ones I have look very pale indeed.

Can anyone tell me how Cream Legbar eggs compare with Araucana eggs in
terms of intensity of colour?

A friend nearby has a pair of Araucanas and their eggs look the same
colour as my Legbars does...

I guess we'll find out in five or six months time then. They go in the
incubator tomorrow, unless the temperature stabilises quickly enough
this evening.

I'll get a decent photo pf her eggs online soon - check
http://www.hendersonshappyhens.co.uk/ ;-)

How odd. I'd have sworn the pair of eggs you have in the first photo
and the egg you have next to the Welsummer on the above page were all
Maran eggs. Ours are definitely that kind of colour, if not darker.
We do have the Copper Black though, rather than the Cuckoo. I was
under the impression that didn't make a difference, but perhaps you
know better. I'm rather taken with our Marans -- the dark eggs look
stunning and the cockerel is a very impressive chap. My three year-
old son is absolutely convinced the "chocolatey brown" eggs are just
for him :)

James
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