Experienced Hatchers Only! Dark eggs are harder to hatch use the suggested incubating instructions available on our home page.
You will receive something similar to what is pictured. An assortment of my dark browns, darker olive and eggs from our "bloomy" pens which could be olive or brown with blooms.
Bloomy Orps are a very light taupe or brown covered in a solid bloom. They have a slight pink look to them with a bloom. These are a third generation that consistently produce a bloom and could be a great start to your bloom project or you can continue to breed them true.
Dark brown eggs with blooms look purple while light brown eggs with blooms look pink. We hatched our bloomy eggs and put them in one pen under roosters that hatched from dark or bloomy eggs. While some of the eggs you receive may not have a bloom they are from that line. We will mark in the picture which one's have blooms and which do not. This is not a cross pen these blooms come from Black Copper Marans. Keep in mind their eggs do lighten over time and while it looked like the picture with the color card at the end of March it will lighten until we get to molt. You will receive eggs from that pen.
Olive eggs come from 5 different generations of olive egger crossing. We will try not to send more than one of each generation to keep it assorted. Any hens that hatch from these olive eggs will lay a shade darker then the egg your receive. They also have a 50/50 chance of laying a darker olive or darker brown egg.
Olive Eggers have hybrid vigor and do lay more often than our Black Copper Marans so your order will lean more toward olive.
We are not able to do custom orders and can't send you all bloomy eggs. There is no guarantee that your hens will lay dark eggs, especially if it is a bloomy egg, you are taking a chance. Also note, the bloom doesn't always show up on the first egg it can take months for it to show up. Genetics are not guaranteed.
Some of the eggs you receive will be REALLY DARK and therefor harder to hatch. If you have never hatched eggs please start with our light egg collection. If you are ready to move forward with dark eggs please read up on dry hatching. We do not recommend hatching lighter eggs like blue or tan with dark eggs since darker eggs usually need 1-2 days more time to hatch. When your lighter eggs hatch earlier they impact the humidity in your incubator, plan accordingly.
You will receive exactly what is pictured. Make sure you have experience hatching dark eggs or have gotten the free download from our home page.
You are buying 10 eggs and receiving 2 additional eggs in the event of damage during transit. There is no guarantee that the hens that hatch from these eggs will produce a bloom.
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