It was just a lazy, easy Saturday morning here in Oklahoma—50s when I woke up—so me and Boon sat outside for a bit, and then I got to work collecting eggs. In this video I’m walking you through two days worth of eggs from Paragon Hatchery and showing you what the colors actually look like in real life: my black copper marans OG pen eggs, my F1 olives, and my backcross eggs (BC1) that are made to lay those darker olive green and “kalamata” tones. I also compare blues side-by-side—lavender americana versus crested cream legbar—and explain how I can tell who laid what by shape and color after years of knowing my girls. I also show you what a heavy bloom is and how I check it the simple way—yes, with a wet finger—so you can see the true shell color underneath. You’ll see how cold mornings seem to give me more heavy blooms, and why people chase that look by breeding for it (even if the science behind it isn’t something I’m claiming to have mastered). If you want a rainbow egg basket, I break it down as simple as I can: think crayons—blue plus brown makes green—and then you start stacking the right hens and roosters to get those blues, greens, olives, dark browns, and pink-tinted eggs.