The brown one is not, but it is a model of what all the eggs were looking like before we started seeing the lighter ones - however, something to think about is - I do have two buff brahmas and they lay a lighter colored egg anyway.
Thanks! They've been laying since about July. It's getting colder here, so I expect it to slow down. They were hatched in March, so they are still young.
We're newbies at raising chickens. My daughter raised them as her 4-H project. We have a hen that has started laying lighter eggs. - see picture. We had a sick hen with a severe eye infection, and I thought it was her that way laying them. She died last week, and we've gotten three more light...