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He'd be adventurous, as chickens go 🧐 Assuming the closest home, which does have chickens ... he'd be traveling about 400 yards each way. My chickens could help, they range about 100 yards that direction ... he'd have to be cunning, going around the edge hidden in the bushes and not crowing...

The earlobes are all red - I haven't had any white ear lobed chickens in this flock ... and no true white egg layers either. The light bits visible on the white hen there I'm pretty sure are the little feather puff - the red ear lobe is below that and big enough to look like a wattle. The...

Yes I think I know who it is - she's come out of the same nest as the dark egg a few times, and even it was still damp once. Still holding out the "we were wrong" scenario in case. Surely, objectively, a young bird is more likely. I'm still watching nests for further proof but look what they're...

The 4yo hen is a 2nd-generation Hyline hybrid descendant ... so mother hen was a commercial Hyline brown hybrid, rooster was a Hyline rooster grabbed at hatch. The shape is her usual egg shape ... but that is the most average medium oval shape half the hens lay similar. The first one was small...

The eggs are very impressive. Makes me want more chocolate dark egg layers!! I shouldn't be getting even more chickens though, Lol.

The new birds are all hatched here from my own eggs - so there should be no surprises, genetically. Only Sussex and Hyline brown can be mixed in there. The 4th young one that I haven't seen the egg from individually is a light Sussex. I will continue to watch both of them and see what happens!

Didn't see the egg come out, no ... but now 3 or 4 times it happened in the same nest at the same time as that chicken, and the latest time the egg was still damp when she got out. We've also eliminated 3 out of the 4 new hens from the suspect pool - those have been caught laying ordinary eggs...

One of our hens just started laying a super dark egg a couple of weeks ago. The colour is very unusual, like a barnevelder or maran egg for example? Whereas the hens are a mix of sussex and hyline brown descendants. I thought it must be a young hen, but after watching carefully it looks like...