Quail eggs help?

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shanny2
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I have a blue egg that has the normal brown tip but and has a blue colour
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VR1Ton
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not uncommon for quail to lay bluish eggs, silers often do it.
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shanny2
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it looks like moldy bread but blue
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yes my quail lay blueish eggs, often speckled a bit with green and brown.
In different lights the eggs might look sickly green :
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does it mean a good or bad egg
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Too soon to tell. Just leave it to the quail to work out. Mine lay from quite blue to quite green. And vary from almost completely clear to middling speckles. Does not seem to make any difference to the fertility.
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but it is blue with a darker blue in the middle and normal colour tip on the egg
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Sorry, without seeing it I can't really say anything more than I have said. Just wait and see how the next ones look.
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the next egg
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Yes.
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