FINCHforum

okay, so
whenever i see a zebra finch eggs picture on the net the eggs always look shiny/polished or glossy , always reflecting light
my finch eggs r NEVER shiny , at alllllllllll, they look like a white rock
but once hatched the chicks look okay and fine,
is my femal missing something in her diet ????????
I WANNA HAVE SHINY EGGS TOO !!!!!!!

Probably just a reflection from the flash of the camera.

There is an inherent problem of the small pocket cameras. The flash is VERY close to the lens, sometimes only an inch (2.5cm) away. What this means is, when the flash fires, if there is anything to reflect off of, the flash will be reflected back into the lens.

Secondly, depending on the camera, it is very likely that the eggs are simply "over exposed." This happens because the surrounding nest is dark, and is a larger part of the image than the egg, so the camera adjusts its exposure for that...then the white eggs get over exposed.

The pix below is a pix of eggs in my nest. I adjusted the image to be more what the real eggs look like.