I hear there are hens that lay pink eggs ?

[Green]

I'm interested in getting some hens that lay pink eggs, i am not sure which breed they are. If anyone knows more about this please let me know ! Mahalo

[hrooster]

http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/c...hooks.html

Looks like Plymouth Rocks lay pinkish ones...

http://the-hroost.com

[Green]

great site thankyou for the response

[mella l]

Just for fun you can make hard boiled eggs pink by putting a bit of red onion skin in the boiling water. Kids get a kick out of it! Oh and that reminds me, for Easter it is always fun to cook and dye pullet eggs, small and kids love those too!

mella l

Paris London New York PUNA

[Hotzcatz]

The hens which lay the colored eggs are Aracana/Americauna hens. They are more famous for laying blue and green eggs. Their "pink" eggs are more of a light brown than a true pink, IMHO. They are a good backyard hen, they are friendly, interesting to look at and are pretty good at laying eggs. Some of them have "beards" some have "ear muffs" and some have both. A true Araucana chicken doesn't have a tail and looks pretty strange. The hens can come in all different colors and color patterns, too, so your flock is fun to watch and it is easy to tell the hens apart - which is an important thing if you are keeping them for pets and giving them names.

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"I like yard sales," he said. "All true survivalists like yard sales."
Kurt Wilson

[Fishboy]

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Originally posted by mella l

...it is always fun to cook and dye pullet eggs...

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Oooooookay. Time for Brian to get a lesson in chicken. I'd not seen this word, "pullet", so I looked it up. So, Mella, a young female chicken is a pullet, so I have to surmise you're referring to their first eggs? I've never raised chickens, so I also surmise there's a whole science behind it. Soooooooo, how much smaller are these first eggs? How many clutches (is that the word?) before a laying hen puts out larger eggs?

Aloha pumehana,
Brian and Mary
Lynnwood, WA\Discovery Harbour

[Hotzcatz]

A pullet is the same as a heifer or filly - i.e. a young female which has not had young yet. Usually when a hen starts laying, her first dozen eggs or so are fairly small. As the hens age, the eggs get bigger although there's less of them. I had a seven year old hen who laid really big eggs, but not very many of them.

A clutch (in the chicken world anyway) would be the group of eggs laid by a hen to set on and hatch. (Note: they "set" and not "sit" when they are hatching the eggs.) Some breeds of chickens are much more likely to go broody (want to set eggs) than other breeds. I think the Henderson Chicken Chart that Hrooster mentioned above notes which ones are more likely to go broody than others.

Chickens are great fun!

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"I like yard sales," he said. "All true survivalists like yard sales."
Kurt Wilson