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Poultry and Pets => Chicken Chat => Topic started by: Kate and her Ducks on March 22, 2011, 18:47

Title: Amazing Black egg!
Post by: Kate and her Ducks on March 22, 2011, 18:47

Ellie, My best layer of last year has had a bit of a slow start this year and I was sterting to wonder if she had used up all her eggs last year as she laid into Dec. I can tell her eggs from the others as they are tinted olive green, fading through the season as she is half Cayuga.

This morning I came down to find this!

(http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm5/katemerriman/14ae5047.jpg)

I'm very proud of her!

Title: Re: Amazing Black egg!
Post by: joyfull on March 22, 2011, 18:51

oh wow Kate, that is simply stunning  :)

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Post by: scabs on March 22, 2011, 18:52

Wow!

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Post by: Chrysalis on March 22, 2011, 19:01

Cor!  What a fab thing....  Thanks for sharing that. ::)

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Post by: evie2 on March 22, 2011, 20:03

  :blink: ???  :ohmy: interesting, very interesting

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Post by: Junie on March 22, 2011, 20:06

That is stunning - she has been saving the paint over the winter!

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Post by: Kate and her Ducks on March 22, 2011, 20:26

 :D Certainly looks that way!

I'm curious to see how quickly they fade over the season.
The funny thing is that as with many black ducks, Cayugas ducks (and presumably hybrids) get white feathers as they age. Ellie was almost entirely black with just a few white feathers on her bib last year. After her winter moult she had developed white feathers speckled all the way over her. It's almost like the paint is coming out of her and onto the eggs! :D At this rate she will be completely white by next year.

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Post by: pigeonpie on March 22, 2011, 21:09

It certainly saves having to boil them up with crepe paper like we used to do as kids to make the shells funky colours.

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Post by: ManicMum on March 22, 2011, 22:34

Maybe it was l;aid so fast it got scorched on the way out!!

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Post by: LittleRedHen on March 23, 2011, 14:40

I have NEVER seen an egg like this!  Wow!  Knock my sock off!

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Post by: Hayley'sHens on March 23, 2011, 15:39

Wow! Im very jealous.... Its beautiful Kate, Well done Ellie   :)

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Post by: andreadon on March 24, 2011, 14:32

 :ohmy:

wow!  :D

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Post by: Aunt Sally on March 24, 2011, 14:44

I think she used a little too much paint on that one Kate  :lol:

Title: Re: Amazing Black egg!
Post by: Kate and her Ducks on April 01, 2011, 19:02

Ellie's eggs have already faded quite a bit. The first three are some of hers from the last week or so and the one on the end is one of the other girls to show the comparison.

(http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm5/katemerriman/2228f9cf.jpg)

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Post by: joyfull on April 01, 2011, 19:26

wonder why they change their egg colour like their feather colouring changes too.

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Post by: jinty1911 on April 01, 2011, 21:10

Aye good one  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

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Post by: Pol on April 02, 2011, 00:08

wow :)