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Poultry and Pets => Chicken Chat => Topic started by: GrannieAnnie on July 19, 2011, 13:46

Title: Purple eggs?
Post by: GrannieAnnie on July 19, 2011, 13:46

Some time ago we were talking on here about a chicken that lays purple eggs.  I wasn't imagining it was I?

Title: Re: Purple eggs?
Post by: JaK on July 19, 2011, 14:24

I've read that before too. It is a breed called the easter egger but I have no idea if you can get them here or if they have a different name in the UK?

Title: Re: Purple eggs?
Post by: whiskywill on July 19, 2011, 14:55

Is it April the 1st? ???

Title: Re: Purple eggs?
Post by: kegs on July 19, 2011, 14:58

Is this the link ?

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=70816.msg808372#msg808372

Title: Re: Purple eggs?
Post by: GrannieAnnie on July 19, 2011, 15:08

Thanks Kerry, that's the one!  Shall go have a read now!  :)

Title: Re: Purple eggs?
Post by: kegs on July 19, 2011, 15:15

Hi

There's also a picture of the eggs on the club website.  Lovely chicks and the eggs are described as a pinkish plum colour.

http://mikek.org.uk/croadclubsite/5_photos.htm

Title: Re: Purple eggs?
Post by: GrannieAnnie on July 19, 2011, 15:17

LOL, I was just going to put the photo of the eggs on here!  Not exactly purple, but VERY pretty!

http://www.treemo.com/files/treemo.mikekk.134359.or.jpg

Title: Re: Purple eggs?
Post by: joyfull on July 19, 2011, 15:18

the cockerels are very handsome and very large  :).

Title: Re: Purple eggs?
Post by: kegs on July 19, 2011, 15:21

How about the picture on this site then?  I thought they were plums !  ::)

http://clarescroads.webs.com/eggcolour.htm

Title: Re: Purple eggs?
Post by: joyfull on July 19, 2011, 15:24

they are plums - the croad langsham egg is the one in the centre of the top picture. The plums are there to show the bloom that the croad langsham egg has.

Title: Re: Purple eggs?
Post by: kegs on July 19, 2011, 15:26

Aw, now I'm disappointed.  It would be an amazing colour for an egg.  :blush:

Title: Re: Purple eggs?
Post by: GrannieAnnie on July 19, 2011, 15:29

You sure they are plums Joy?  They look like it, but this is what it says under the photo.

"A good example of a Croad Langshan egg freshly collected from the nest box is quite beautiful. They remind me of sugared almonds. "

Title: Re: Purple eggs?
Post by: joyfull on July 19, 2011, 15:33

sorry  :(. As I said in the original topic the eggs are pinkish with a plummy bloom like plums rather than being plum coloured. The colouring also depends on the breeding and the large fowl are better coloured than the bantams. The birds though are really pretty and they were once described to me as standing like a wine glass with their heads and tails both upright and their legs like the stem of the glass (only a French person would think of a bird in this way  ::) - Hello Cochin if you are reading this xx  :lol:).

Title: Re: Purple eggs?
Post by: joyfull on July 19, 2011, 15:35

I know what it says under the photo on there but I have seen the same photos before - also since when have sugared almonds been the same colour as Victoria plums  ;)?

Title: Re: Purple eggs?
Post by: joyfull on July 19, 2011, 15:36

also look at the line going down the plum  :)

Title: Re: Purple eggs?
Post by: evie2 on July 19, 2011, 20:54

It is a picture of plums then, I thought it was the drugs playing funny ruggers with my eyes ::) :lol:

Title: Re: Purple eggs?
Post by: storme37 on July 21, 2011, 21:30

iv found a breeder for Croad Langshan hope to get 1 saturday :)

Title: Re: Purple eggs?
Post by: joyfull on July 21, 2011, 21:42

large fowl or bantam and black or white?

Title: Re: Purple eggs?
Post by: storme37 on July 21, 2011, 21:53

black lf hen have been offered cock to breed if i want

Title: Re: Purple eggs?
Post by: storme37 on July 23, 2011, 17:09

here it is my new hen that should at some point produce these eggs. i found a guy near canterbury who breeds them.

(http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/qq340/storme37/IMG_1172.jpg)

Title: Re: Purple eggs?
Post by: GrannieAnnie on July 23, 2011, 18:01

oooooh, she is pretty!!

Title: Re: Purple eggs?
Post by: bantam novice on July 23, 2011, 19:12

Really beautiful.  I'm jealous!  :D

Title: Re: Purple eggs?
Post by: storme37 on July 24, 2011, 01:18

thanks i couldnt resist