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All of my ladies have been laying for months.. And this strange green speckled egg appeared today.
Any ideas?
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I'm a new duck keeper and I'm new to laying.
My first Cayuga laid an egg that had the black coating but in some places the bloom was laid on more heavily than others.. so the egg was dark gray/black with some super dark black spots all over it. It was one of her very first eggs and she only did it once.
The only time any of my hens have started laying black eggs again after laying normal "fading" bloom eggs was after a traumatic event happened. This particular hen took 3 days off from al;yiing after the event and her first egg back had a very black coating on it.
Could it be from something in their diet-- acorns, or spirulina or kelp? My girls get beets daily and if someone really indulges in them their egg shells have a pinker tinge than normal. But the calcium spots on the shells are white.
I was trying to make an example and couldn't remember the word (pigment) so I decided to talk about my hen that add the calcium spots, but finally remembered the word I was trying to think of, but I also have one (chicken)hen that lays a brown egg but it has a bunch of spots that are just extra pigment like dyeing eggs if you dye an e.g. and then flick the colored water on it with a brush or something it is the same color only deeper, that is what her eggs look like. So maybe she just added a bit of greenish pigment?