[cammi]

thanks everyone for your replies

AL  i will take a picture of her eggs and get them on, look alot like yours!!  Fellow newbie copper black keeper lol.

Jealous of all the photos of dark dark brown eggs, very nice.

[Casey76]

Hi Cammi,

Just as a comparison.  Here are the eggs from my girls.  I have a black Marans who layed the eggs in the bottom two corners, a mystery hen who layed the top two corners and the bottom middle egg... and the top middle egg is a supermarket egg for comparison.



As you can see the Marans eggs are very pale for a Marans, but the others (not the supermarket one lol!) are quite nice, even though the hen is not a Marans! - though she could possibly be a Marans cross, even if she came out of a very pale shell herself  :blink:

[cammi]

Sorry its taken so long here are our eggs,

The top ones come from our Bluebird for comparison, the lower row are from the Copper Black

[darkbrowneggs]

These are some my girls have laid this week, just waiting for one more today to post out 18 for someone this afternoon.

[Aunt Sally]

Oh dear...  I must be missing the point of dark egg shell colour.

The eggs are all the same on the inside, and that's the bit I eat

[joyfull]

so you wouldn't be wanting any of my blue eggs then  .True they do all taste the same though 

[Aunt Sally]

Bright blue pink with spots on would be all the same to me 

Delia went all crazy over white egg shells when it was a good advertising gimic for her egg cook book.

[cammi]

darkbrown, thy look lovely!  I presume they are hatching eggs are they as you are posting them out to someone??

Aunt Sally,  they look nice on the skelter though    could we not go all out and have pink with yellow flowers??

Joyfull, still awaiting my first Araucana egg, hoping its a bit more 'blue' than my Copper Blacks are 'brown'

[Aunt Sally]

Aunt Sally,  they look nice on the skelter though  ...

Ah...  Keep mine in an eggbox in the fridge as they keep fresher longer 

[cammi]

Mine dont hang around that long lol! Only have 4 hens and only 2 are laying at the moment so still buying shop eggs too boo hiss

[joyfull]

araucanas can lay any colour from off white (bit greyish colour) through sky blue to olive green - mine all lay a lovely shade of blue  . I have appenzellers to lay white eggs but sadly these are laying elsewhere and I have yet to find where  plus the usually various shades of cream through to brown, all very pretty and tasty 

[darkbrowneggs]

Oh dear...  I must be missing the point of dark egg shell colour.

The eggs are all the same on the inside, and that's the bit I eat

Ummmmm    Where do you get those bright blue with pink spots on?  I would be up for some of those 

I chose the dark brown eggs many years ago when I bought my first hens and went to the local agricultral show.  One look and I was smitten. 

I think we eat with all our senses and I really enjoy a couple of boiled eggs one dark brown and one speckled.  I went to a very famous chefs restuarant to eat not long ago, and when they bought their signature dish out with something concocted in an egg shell I was aghast - it looked so washed out   

This year I am branching out and expect my first "blue egg layers" this weekend - I am getting over-eggcited about it

These are some from this years "Speckled Egg" layers

All the best
Sue
 

[cammi]

Oh WOW Sue they are just brilliant!!!

[Lindeggs]

Oh those dark brown eggs are lovely!

And as much as I know they are the same inside as any other egg, I still admire them for their beauty.  The same with hens - obviously happy and healthy are the most important criteria, but once you've achieved that why not have a beautiful hen in your garden?

In both cases their beauty is only skin/shell deep.

[darkbrowneggs]

Some of the speckled ones from the Higgledy Harriets are a bit like the markings on your lovely avatar Cammi