Cream Legbar and Pale Eggs

[VirginVegGrower]

I was assured we had a cream legbar purebreed and yet her eggs are pale pink, not blue. Anyone any ability to shed light on this please?
I will keep my funky haired chicken as she's lovely but I might call the chap to inform him.

[Suechooks]

The lady where I got my Legbar eggs had some that laid pink eggs a couple of years ago. She got a new cockerel which was from a good blue egg and the fertile eggs I had from her this year were lovely - only problem was there's only one girl!

[VirginVegGrower]

Eeks! Oh well pink it is then. More hens needed then :-)

[RichmondHens]

To my knowledge a proper pure breed cream legbar should lay blue or blue/green eggs, not pink. What you may have is a Skyline, a hybrid that looks like a cream legbar but can lay a pink egg, along with the usual blue or green.

[VirginVegGrower]

I have just looked at this. A call to the seller methinks although daughter is delighted we have pink ones - ho hum!

[chris]

do you mean pink, as in the normal egg colour - or are they actually pink pink?

[Feather]

do you mean pink, as in the normal egg colour - or are they actually pink pink?

could well be the next fashion trend!

[VirginVegGrower]

Pale pink not normal egg colour although this morning's egg is a chalky cream. I swear somebody is painting them. I love little Sage, cream legbar or not - she has the crest and an oversize floppy comb. She looks like a punk/art student and I've always been a bit of a rebel. Maybe that's why we are getting multishade eggs!

[VirginVegGrower]

Well we definately have a cream legbar!
on the day my daughter and I thought we would play a prank on my son whose hen Sage is - we painted what we thought was HER pink egg, blue - she then goes and lays a blue egg!!!
We now think the pink ones are being laid by Eloise the young hen who had been sitting in the nest box where we pulled out today's pink egg. BUT she doesn't have a fully grown comb and so we are VERY confused?!?

[chris]

You need a web/spy cam!

[VirginVegGrower]

I do indeed - I couldn't believe that she would start to lay the very day I had painted one blue for a joke. We were convinced she was the pink egg layer. Brown and blue yesterday no pink or creamy chalk. I am waiting for my first lilac one.

[chris]

or green

[VirginVegGrower]

It was blue with a funny whippy top to it. We took it when warm then let them out and she was going nuts searching the house and the run. Sitting, squawking and scratching in the nest box. I assume she was broody for her lost egg?!

[lettucegrow!]

You don't know what you're going to find next, how exciting!!

[VirginVegGrower]

Regular blue coming from her now. Although she stood on one yesterday in her haste to get to the boiled rice. Splash Marans is the pink/cream layer. Dark brown from the other two Marans. It's great we get colour coded eggs!