Lesley Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 I've got one!! Ellie laid today - she hasn't laid since August and we've really missed the blue eggs. She was making such a racket and going in and out of the Eglu so I shut her in, set the kitchen timer and rescued her after an hour - there it was - a small, perfect, blue egg Poppy is getting ready to lay again as well - blue and white eggs again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clare* Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 How lovely Lesley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Photos please!!!! I would love blue eggs. When our White Star lays, her eggs are pure white (or brown if they have poo or mud on them). Anyway, after a day or so they get little blue speckles on them. Strange, huh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted January 19, 2006 Author Share Posted January 19, 2006 Very strange There is a photo somewhere in the Egg Gallery - is the Egg Gallery still there? It shows an egg box with five eggs in it. I'll look later and post it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 I hope to have my very own blue egg layer on Saturday Great news Lesley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Before you ask Lesley, NO, I haven't moved it ! Well done Ellie!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Yeah! Hopefully Lottie will recover from the intro stress and reward us with a blue/green egg someday! What you up to Clare! BBx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicola H Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Well done Ellie I have missed Bunty's lovely blue eggs, could you send Ellie round to have a word with her Lesley.....................Lets hope I don't have to wait too long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheilaz Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 5 months, Lesley, you must be delighted. Well done, Ellie. Good news for others who are experiencing gaps in laying too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted January 19, 2006 Author Share Posted January 19, 2006 Nicola - just lock Bunty in the Eglu and don't let her out until she's laid an egg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted January 19, 2006 Author Share Posted January 19, 2006 Five different coloured eggs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali-s Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 What a lovely colour Lesley. I am going for a mixture of egg colours with my next Eglu. Hurry up Omlet Meadowsweet are bringing out a blue egg laying hybrid in the Spring Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cate in NZ Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Congratulations Lesley It must be good to be getting them all back into production again. But, I want a blue egg too. I wonder if Phil will ever lay? I'm not sure that locking her in the eglu is likely to do the trick though, she'd be in there a month of sundays I think before I got an egg from her I spoke to Johannes at Kew and he said it's rare for a chicken not to lay, but possibly if she wasn't fed a proper diet at the time that her egg laying equipment was being formed she might not have developed properly and in that case may never be able to lay. She is a wuss though, always bottom of the pecking order, even little Zola has overtaken her there, and the last too feed, also frightened of her own shadow, not at all tame even now, so maybe with the breeder in amongst lots of chickens she got last pickings of the grub, and didn't eat enough, or the right stuff to develop properly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahJo Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Well done Ellie. . I was at the adopted bunch today .... and got a double yolker for tomorrows brekky, and also 2 blue eggs, they are really pretty, but rare as they only have one cream legbar in the flock too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 It is a beautiful colour. I wonder if there is a difference between Duck Egg Blue & Chicken Egg Blue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 I've noticed that sometimes even the blue ones can vary in shade, from when I used to buy the Clarence Court ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 I bought some Duck Eggs in Waitrose last weekend & was really suprised that they were more of an opaque white than Duck Egg Blue. I guess it must depend on the Duck breed too. They were delicious - HUGE yolks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted January 20, 2006 Author Share Posted January 20, 2006 The eggs are all different blues - I was hoping for pale sky blue, but it's still exciting to have any colour blue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popcorn Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 Oh, I'd love some blue eggs...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel (& Paul) Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 We love our Blue Eggs (I particularly like the fact that when my colleagues buy some of our eggs and they get one they ask whether the yolk will be blue ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffie Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 Congrats Lesley and guess what got back from our dog walk and picking up the stockholm tar and went to feed girls some cabbage and all of a sudden noticed something Blue Lotties laid her first egg and it's blue and they must have not pecked her to bits becasue her sore ear has healed!! I gave her aconite for shock so I think that's helped her but never expected an egg after the ordeal she's had, if yours haven't laid try it. What a fab chick I have been given Best 40th pressie I could be given BBx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicola H Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 CONGRATULATIONS Buffie and well done Lottie what a lovely little blue egg.......................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen & co. Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 WOW it makes my various shades of brown look very boring! Karen x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel (& Paul) Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 CONGRATULATIONS LOTTIE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel (& Paul) Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 Today must be a BLUE EGG-STRA SPECIAL DAY!!We had TWO Blue eggs - so now Mrs Beaton is laying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
