2 eggs 1 hen?

[QuailTail]

Hey folks!

So I got my first egg yesterday (hooray!!) after 3 weeks in their new home. Very exciting.
And then today I got a second egg (double hooray!!).

My question is, are they from the same hen? I know that hens are supposed to lay almost identical eggs (right?) so I'm confused because I really expected that if I did get a second egg today it would be from the same hen, but the eggs look quite different. The darker spotty egg (on the right) is from yesterday and the egg with the calcium deposits (left) is from today. They look very different to me. I also feel like the chances of two hens laying consecutively are quite low when none of them have been laying until now?

Also, the calcium deposits - do I need to do anything if this continues, like change feed etc, or is this ok?

 

[SpotTheCat]

Hey folks!

So I got my first egg yesterday (hooray!!) after 3 weeks in their new home. Very exciting.
And then today I got a second egg (double hooray!!).

My question is, are they from the same hen? I know that hens are supposed to lay almost identical eggs (right?) so I'm confused because I really expected that if I did get a second egg today it would be from the same hen, but the eggs look quite different. The darker spotty egg (on the right) is from yesterday and the egg with the calcium deposits (left) is from today. They look very different to me. I also feel like the chances of two hens laying consecutively are quite low when none of them have been laying until now?

Also, the calcium deposits - do I need to do anything if this continues, like change feed etc, or is this ok?

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They don’t lay identical, they lay eggs with similar amount of spots, size of spots and colour. So one quail might lay eggs with very large brown smudged looking spots, another quail will lay eggs with lots of small all most black spots with a few slightly larger spots. Those might be from the same quail or might not

 

[SpotTheCat]

Heres a picture of 3 eggs from 3 different quails

 

[FloorCandy]

You can go out and look at the vents, if this was their first ever egg, the new layers will have much wider vents than the others. If they were laying before you got them, this won’t help tho.

 

[Nabiki]

Don't worry about the calcium deposit. That's fine. Those two eggs look similar enough that they might be from the same bird, but that's not 100% certain.

 

[CovidtimeQuail]

They look like they came from different birds to me. I have one that consistently lays eggs with heavy deposit too, that's how I know it came from her.