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I've had hens with legs of every shade and combination of shades under the sun, from all sorts of genetics, with all sorts of patterns, and not found it to correlate to eggshell color any more than any other trait. So I wouldn't think offhand that you'd have an issue there. But stranger things...

The answer to chicken maths is always: more. :D Let no good male die unbred for want of a few more hens, say I. lol. Anyway, all the best with whatever your choice is.

Did you breed and hatch them or buy them in already hatched? Maybe whatever they're being kept on now is more complete in the nutrient profile than whatever they might have been on, if that's the case? My chooks of the same colors as her, that particular soft pastel apricot color, and bantam...

The only time I've seen a chook change color of iris/leg/beak/feather/skin is when it was raised on a deficient diet and it's suddenly started receiving a good spectrum, usually kelp. But I've only seen it happen to adult chickens I've bought in. I always reared all my bubs on kelp, so nothing...