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The intensity of the color might change some over a laying cycle but the color itself won't change...

Agree, it's a bit of work to keep bird separate in a 'hobby farm' for some but if that is your business it's literally your single job to do so... And if you found a stow-away in a breeding pen every egg from that point to 30 days out should be immediately tossed... As I said the issue we see...

Mr. Whiting breeds a green and blue laying line, the fact that some here are reporting 'brown' shaded eggs means the gene pool was severely contaminated, as the only way to get a 'brown' egg would be multi-generation contamination that allows the recessive white shell gene to express, not to...

I have one laying now and although it's not blue/green (thanks for that) sadly it is a very, very pale washed out blue, far from the deeper blue egg color I'm aiming for in my own blue layer line... If I place it next to a white egg you can see it has a blue tint, but next my other blue layers...

Wrap the color swatch around the center of the egg, then they will be at the same level and both curved the same way...

May I suggest anyone that takes pictures of their eggs, go to a national consumer friendly paint store like Home Depot, Lowes, Menards, or even Walmart and get the closest paint chip card(s) they can fin their egg color and lay the egg next to that paint chip car when they take the picture...

What lineage are you CL and have you compared your CL eggs to other blue layers? I ask because my CL breed stock consist of A/B/C Greenfire lines, the Rees Greenfire line and a supposed unrelated Canadian CL line and none of those lines lay a true blue egg when held up in a side by side...

Reply back to them they they are utter stupid idiots to suggest such foolishness nonsense and that their reply is a complete insult to your and everyone else that actually has a clue about chicken genetics, and that you are beyond surprised that a so called professional hatchery would even reply...

It would actually take more than that unless that happened generations ago and the breeder willfully ignored the wrong colored eggs coming from the breeding program and pretended his stock was still pure... That shows gross negligence... A 'cream' colored egg as pictured requires a double...

Or worse... Either way if the claims of cream and green eggs are verified, they owe a lot of refunds for their false advertising as they are the ones at fault... And I hope if it's verified as true that they step up to the plate and handle it professionally, before it explodes into lawsuits...

A hens egg shell color never changes, the brown outside color coating can vary in shade a little bit through the season depending on the breed... A cream egg and a blue/green egg will never come from the same bird... To get a cream egg requires both parents to have not been true blue layers...

Well I had fully expected them to be homozygous for the blue egg gene as advertised and was planning to use them in my own blue layer program to potentially increase eggs size and production, but I guess those plans are out the window as I'm not going to risk polluting my known blue egg birds...

Am I reading that correctly that one of your True Blue's is laying cream eggs? That is patently unacceptable, as there is no way a homozygous blue egg layer's (father or mother) offspring could lay cream eggs!!! The only way the cream egg could happen is if both parents carried white egg shell...

The current American stock of Cream Legbars are not even true blue eggs, they have a green tints to them... The cheapest blue-blue eggs in the US are going to come from Easter Eggers, assuming you find a good line of them where the color has not been diluted...

Well if they are indeed laying light green eggs, that is bound to disappoint many including myself... I purchased them on the assumption they were as the name (and pictures) implied 'True Blue' layers knowing Dr. Whiting has a different green laying line of the birds...

They would go lighter, how light will depend on how many brown genes were diluted in the cross...

McMurray doesn't sell Black Copper Marans...

They are about 2 months old and feathered now, the 'chick' in question is solid black with some faint copper highlights on the neck/hackle feathers, black legs/feet and black beak... Looking over McMurray's offerings I don't see much that fits that profile beyond their Black Stars...

Well unless someone claims otherwise, I'm going to assume the black legged one is the mystery chick... Now to determine what it is, looks a lot like a Black Star (sexlink) not exactly a 'rare breed' as advertised though if that is what it turns out to be...

Quick question, does anyone's Whiting True Blue have black legs/feet? I'm still trying to narrow down my 'mystery' chick from Murray, the Welsummers and Cuckoo Marans in the order have always been easy to identify from day one, but trying to pick out the mystery chick among the Whiting's has...