Blue Eggs Uncovered: The Fascinating Breeds You Need to Know!

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  • Опубліковано 3 сер 2024
  • Hey there, feathered-friends enthusiasts! 🐔 Welcome to The Happy Chicken Coop's one-of-a-kind episode that's sure to leave you egg-cited and egg-ucated! Ever wondered which chicken breeds lay those fascinating blue eggs you've seen? Look no further! Today, we unravel the mystery behind blue egg-laying chicken breeds, from Ameraucanas to Cream Legbars.
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  • @lilyavery8230
    @lilyavery8230 11 місяців тому +17

    I have a blue egger… she’s an Easter egger. I have blue, pink, brown and dark browns. Prettiest basket ever!

  • @rrbb36
    @rrbb36 11 місяців тому +12

    “Like a printer running out of ink”. I like your sense of humor!

  • @trina7274
    @trina7274 11 місяців тому +10

    I have 13 color pack blues that I purchased from Jenk’s Hatchery (Americas oldest hatchery, located in Tangent, Oregon)…. They lay various shades of blue….
    5 cream legbars (bright blue eggs) and 3 blue laying Easter eggers… so in a few weeks, we will have LOTS of blue eggs in our egg basket! 💙💙
    I’ve 6 blue Easter egger Eggs in the incubator right now, that I crossed with a barnevelder (deep brown eggs) so they should hatch as olive eggers, laying dark green eggs! Excited to see what they lay in 5-6 months!! ….if I get any females that is 😮😬😐
    Blue eggs are my absolute favorite!!

  • @kotukuwhakapiko467
    @kotukuwhakapiko467 11 місяців тому +7

    I got a acurana cross leghorn. She lays what I'm now calling ' glow in the dark ' eggs (green/blue)

  • @ruthspillman546
    @ruthspillman546 4 місяці тому +2

    ❤❤❤they are very beautiful!!! I miss my chickens and hope when I move I will have more!!!

  • @christiamvelez8696
    @christiamvelez8696 5 місяців тому +2

    Wow what a great video to watch to sort out my curiosity ! THANKS!

  • @user-hz2xl4co9u
    @user-hz2xl4co9u Місяць тому

    Building my flock, some were ordered, some were bought at feed store. I got only 2 left in batch at store. I believe Americanas. They are lighter grayish tones and black marks. Both still young yet, but pretty mellow. Of course, had to name them..Mr and Mrs Smith. (not what they seem) 😃

  • @candreou789
    @candreou789 8 місяців тому

    Prairie blue bells also lay blue eggs. The birds are very active and sweet. They love treats.

  • @marynellessen8790
    @marynellessen8790 11 місяців тому +1

    Great info! Thanks!!

  • @Jimmywuu636
    @Jimmywuu636 11 місяців тому +1

    I have a black star that lays small battleship gray eggs when they're supposed to be light brown

  • @user-hh3cz1km6h
    @user-hh3cz1km6h 5 місяців тому

    When in Penna, we had Americana and found them good, friendly, fair layers, and they loved to scratch in snow. Eggs were anything from blue to pink to gold. Roosters tolerated the kids, even the little ones, but did not tolerate cats, dogs, bears, or hawks. Roosters would stay between the hens and strange people. Were I to get birds here, in south Arizona, I think partridge rocks would be good. while we like eggs, rocks are good for the roaster, too. Roosters have good survival when caponized, and a capon can be kept up to 6 months and still be good to eat. For bug patrol, old native chickens will wipe out ticks and flies, and do not tolerate coyotes or cats. niio

  • @ahsanzia9200
    @ahsanzia9200 7 місяців тому

    Just got my first blue egg from cream leg bars

  • @ivanlianasworld9552
    @ivanlianasworld9552 3 місяці тому

    Ive got a prairie bluebell and she lays super light blue eggs

  • @user-xb1ht4py2v
    @user-xb1ht4py2v 11 місяців тому

    I had five Delewares. Not sure if all of them or just some, but i got Blue eggs from them. The breeder had only one other breed at his farm, Australorps i think.

  • @hilkaahlers5855
    @hilkaahlers5855 11 місяців тому +3

    How about the Prairie Bluebell Egger?? I bought two this spring. Waiting to see their blue eggs.

    • @rachelfoster4016
      @rachelfoster4016 10 місяців тому

      Right and belive there may be one more. I just can't think of it right now.

  • @canadianpeaches1678
    @canadianpeaches1678 2 місяці тому

    I have opal Legbar only in my hen house

  • @labistretribe7735
    @labistretribe7735 6 місяців тому

    I've had a chickens for 2 years and plan on getting chicks soon. It's been a while so I needed a refresh course. I found your channel and I have found it very helpful and true

  • @rickpearce7876
    @rickpearce7876 9 місяців тому

    I find that the shells are harder and usually perfectly formed.

  • @beebop9808
    @beebop9808 11 місяців тому +3

    Got one Lavender Ameraucana pullet but plan to have her some friends next spring. She's stuck in a coop with a bunch of Buff Orpingtons, the cuddliest birds I've ever seen but they are anything but cuddly to my poor little Silver. Plans at the moment are to cross them with my Black Copper Marans. Would like to have a Lavender rooster but that's a whole nother ball of wax to figure out.........

  • @LeoTheYuty
    @LeoTheYuty 11 місяців тому +1

    Shame that none of these is super common beside the easter eggers. I love the green eggs in my egg carton!

    • @rachelfoster4016
      @rachelfoster4016 10 місяців тому

      You can definately find these birds. You may have to wait a couple months to get some after ordering but they are definately out there for sale. I've got 2 Cream Legbars myself.

  • @songoftheblackunicorn666
    @songoftheblackunicorn666 10 місяців тому +2

    You are very wrong about the Americana I have one and she is the best companion animal I have ever had

  • @maddog6542
    @maddog6542 5 місяців тому

    The women love the blue eggs. And I sell a lot of eggs to women. So I just bought some ameraucana hens. Expensive though.

  • @Venomous-yp8rc
    @Venomous-yp8rc 4 місяці тому +1

    No prairie bluebell?

  • @KugelKatzenFisch
    @KugelKatzenFisch 2 місяці тому

    Isbar and Silverudds missing!

  • @IAMGiftbearer
    @IAMGiftbearer 11 місяців тому +1

    The True Blue is pretty! What is their temperament like?

    • @kylaabegglen1275
      @kylaabegglen1275 11 місяців тому +1

      I have 2 young, 20 week old, Whiting True Blue hens. They aren't laying quite yet. They are both very friendly with the other chickens, I have 4 bantams and 3 full size hens in with them, and also with people. I have spent quite a bit of time with all of our chickens since the day we brought them home also. Whiting True Blues can be pretty much any color, some have muffs and some don't. We have one that is all black with muffs and her feathers have a greenish-blue shine in the sun. Our other True Blue is black with little white specks all over and no muffs, her feathers also shine a greenish-blue in the sun. They are sweet and really smart, they know their names and look at me when I say their names and talk to them, even though their names rhyme, Stella and Bella. They came from Murray McMurray Hatchery. I'm really excited to see what shade of blue/turquoise they will lay. I read that some are paler, some are a medium shade and some are bright blue/turquoise. I highly recommend them just by their temperment and friendliness.

    • @IAMGiftbearer
      @IAMGiftbearer 11 місяців тому

      @@kylaabegglen1275 They sound like a great choice! I love that they are so friendly and social! I think I have bookmarked McMurray's hatchery. I noticed on this video that there were quite a range of different colors, but I really love the silver gray. Not wild about the speckled and blotched ones though. I love chickens with greenish-blue iridescent feathers too! Do you have a rooster or are yours all hens? I'm curious to see what the feathers are like on the roosters. Do any have that red or is it always variations of blue/silver or dark brown, black and white? I love roosters with long arched iridescent tail feathers, and red chest and upper body. I noticed that the person who made this video had one or two with coloring like that but I wasn't sure if they were Whiting True Blues or if they were another variety.
      I wonder if the color of the parents determines the color of the offspring or if it comes out very random in each group of babies?

    • @kylaabegglen1275
      @kylaabegglen1275 11 місяців тому

      @@IAMGiftbearer I just have the 2 hens right now. If you look up colors of Whiting True Blue chickens it says that they come in a wide variety of different colors and patterns of plumage. It will show pics of different ones if you click images also. They come in light colors, medium colors and different patterns with black. Under Dragonfly Farm there is a pic of a WTB rooster with orange, red and black body with a beautiful black tail.

  • @evelyngoodshot-segovia4978
    @evelyngoodshot-segovia4978 7 місяців тому

    What is an olive egg layer

  • @ericgarcia4049
    @ericgarcia4049 11 місяців тому +1

    THE HAPPY CHICKEN COMMENT

  • @gancarzpl
    @gancarzpl 11 місяців тому

    If you would like to get colorful eggs, can it be achieved by getting Legbar or any other blue eggs rooster?

    • @zachcose5247
      @zachcose5247 10 місяців тому +1

      A legbar or ameraucana rooster could breed with brown egg hens to get green shade eggs.

    • @gancarzpl
      @gancarzpl 10 місяців тому

      Thanks, what about hens with white eggs?@@zachcose5247

  • @johnnycash5520
    @johnnycash5520 2 місяці тому

    Well you're off about a hundred eggs a year with the Whiting true blue they lay 300 plus eggs a year

    • @johnnycash5520
      @johnnycash5520 2 місяці тому

      You even got it only partly right about how they look yes some of them look like Chipmunks those will be the ones that look like Easter Eggers but you got duckwing Blues gun blooming Gray and other colors😮

  • @Jack-ng1su
    @Jack-ng1su 5 місяців тому +2

    Why are you washing your eggs? You are ruining them!