Solved Speckled Eggs

[Farrier1987]

Poppycock and tommyrot and twaddle. Tellem to get stuffed.

[kenya]

You should charge more for the speckled ones, Easter is coming!

[Pollo Caballo]

Those speckled eggs are awesome! That customer is a little addled I would say! I agree with the others who advocate letting her go..not worth the aggravation of trying to educate her if she really has a bias against them! Many more people who would love to have those in their egg cartons. I have some friends who love the speckled eggs produced by my Welsummer mix hens and blue copper Marans hens.
WLL those dark olive speckled eggs are really cool too. What mix of hen produces those...Welsummer ameraucana mix? I had a hen a few years ago who gave me a similar speckled though not as dark a green as those eggs. None since since she is now gone.

[Farrier1987]

The speckled olive eggers. I have a few of them. Americauna roo for sure, but I think its from a commercial rir cross layer, but not sure. Not as dark olive as I get with the Marans eggs. But you know, when I crack them in the pan, I cant tell which egg is which.

[Killerbunny]

I have a friend whose fitness trainer has her convinced that blue hens eggs are more nutritious and taste different from other eggs. She can supply them too at a higher price. Now I have 2 new Ameraucana pullets hmmm......

[ross]

How'd you make out with your no speckled eggs lady , Sandy

[SandyM]

I just explained nicely and politely my ' research and that I have gotten plenty of feedback from other eggs sellers to the contrary of her findings' and that I would not 'filter' her eggs she purchases to be free of speckled eggs. She thanked me and then sent me a chart with pictures that says speckled eggs are from unhealthy hens. I returned her email and commented that I have died at least 1000 times on Web MD and for every one she finds to side with her, I could find double the opposing view. Just because it is on the internet doesn't mean it is truth. I signed off the email with a picture of an Easter Egger and said Ameraucana. Same different pile. She either chooses to buys or she doesn't.

[JimW]

The internet and a bit of knowledge = a dangerous thing. I personally would cook up and feed any surplus eggs I had back to my chickens before I would sell to her, even if she decides she still wants to buy from you.

Good lick

[SandyM]

She's my honey and maple syrup supplier and is a nice person outside of her finicky ways. She doesn't like plastic eggs cartons and speckled eggs etc. But if she wants to buy I'm ok with it, she just needed to know I won't tolerate her shenanigans.
She also wants to buy 6-8 dozen a month. The choice is hers. Doesn't bother me either way. I can't get mad over eggs lol.

[WLLady]

QR_BBPOST ..WLL those dark olive speckled eggs are really cool too. What mix of hen produces those...Welsummer ameraucana mix? I had a hen a few years ago who gave me a similar speckled though not as dark a green as those eggs. None since since she is now gone.

Thanks!!!! This is a cross between one of my show quality wheaten marans hen and a wheaten ameraucana cockerel from a ameraucana project i've been working on for ages-they're underweight but the colouration and form are good...just need some size in them. The marans lay 5-6, so a little darker than my welsummers (which are a 4 or so), and the ameraucanas are a nice blue..no clue what shade on the colour card LOL. for some reason my one hen was getting picked on by the wheaten marans hens-she was younger, and a tad smaller, so I had a small tantrum at them last fall, and pushed the picked on girl into the next pen to save her from the hen *&$(% in that pen....which happened to be the ameraucanas pen for a while because i got busy switching breeders etc. She started laying again after the stress of being picked on, and I hatched a few just because. I sold most of the pullets because of space constraints, but the hen that laid these eggs (they're really very olive coloured in the sunlight) is my eye candy. She has show quality wheaten colouring that is sought after in the ameraucanas (slightly different from wheaten marans coloring) BUT she has feathered legs-beautiful wheaten feathers LOL. Her size is good, and i think i'm going to incorporate her into my easter egger line project i have going on. And to top it off, she's very very friendly. just like the ameraucanas. he mom is back into the wheaten marans pen, always laid a nice speckled dark egg so that's where the speckles are from. i may need to pair her back up with the ameraucanas once i get my new-to-me blue wheaten ameraucana boy....