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I got my very first Welsummer egg today!
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My question is, will she always lay speckled eggs? I mean, I know that Easter eggers never change the color of their eggs (a blue layer will always lay blue, a green layer will always lay green, etc.). Is it the same principle with Welsummers? Or could she also lay the solid terra cotta eggs, too?

I have three Welsummers, so I'm sure I'll get different eggs. I'm just curious if I can expect to always have a speckled egg from this one.
 
She will continue to lay speckled eggs. Sometimes one would have more tinier speckles as time goes on or fewer speckles as she gets older. I never had one that would go "speckles-less" at anytime unless she lays solid colored ones (really, they are tiny, tiny speckles, blending with each other)
 
Interesting about the speckles. I have a Welsummer and a Cuckoo Marans. I've been getting a really pretty shiny terra cotta egg fairly regularly and occasionally a speckled egg like the OP's. I've wondered if the same hen laid both eggs. It sounds like one of them is a very consistent layer and the other isn't.
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for a long time I had 1 hen laying the rest were way to young (in the brooder) some days I got speckels some days not. RIR was the hen
 
I got both these eggs from my same olive Egger.

The Fairy Godmartyr said:
I got my very first Welsummer egg today!
celebrate.gif


65004_welsummer_egg.png


My question is, will she always lay speckled eggs? I mean, I know that Easter eggers never change the color of their eggs (a blue layer will always lay blue, a green layer will always lay green, etc.). Is it the same principle with Welsummers? Or could she also lay the solid terra cotta eggs, too?

I have three Welsummers, so I'm sure I'll get different eggs. I'm just curious if I can expect to always have a speckled egg from this one.
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lovinlife said:
Interesting about the speckles. I have a Welsummer and a Cuckoo Marans. I've been getting a really pretty shiny terra cotta egg fairly regularly and occasionally a speckled egg like the OP's. I've wondered if the same hen laid both eggs. It sounds like one of them is a very consistent layer and the other isn't.
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I have no welsummers, but two of my flock are Dominant Copper(a Barred Rock x Maran cross). One lays a smooth terracotta colored egg, one lays a classic Maran dark brown... maybe a 5on the Maran scale(I don’t have a card yet, so it’s hard to tell from online). Some days, that hen has what I call “low toner” days 😂 maybe once a month, instead of a solid dark brown, it will be mottled with spots.

Below are the three mentioned. Speckled solo and the darkest egg in the group photo of 7 eggs are from the same hen, Pogo. The double yolk terracotta in the group of 4 eggs in my hand came from the Coquette
 

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