4 eggs, from 4 different birds? Color/size comparison.

[EllieandOlive]

Hey there. I have 4 pullets all in the 6-7 month range. The last 2 weeks I've been getting 2-3 eggs a day that are not from my older hens, yay! I hatchee these 4 myself and it was a long time coming. I know the layer of the small brown egg as only have 1 that could lay a small brown.
However, do the three blue green eggs look like they were from 3 seperate hens, or can eggs vary in shape and size and color slightly from day to day? I was under the impression that all eggs are basically the same everytime from each hen unless there is a deficiency or something.

One is significantly larger. One is darker. One is about the same color as the largest but smaller.

The other hens are an easter egger and two F1 light olive egger that I bred from an australorp and bluey easter egger. I have caught all but one olive egger on the nest but didn't know who layed what as they were already laid and all were the same temperature.

 

[Quaen]

Hey there. I have 4 pullets all in the 6-7 month range. The last 2 weeks I've been getting 2-3 eggs a day that are not from my older hens, yay! I hatchee these 4 myself and it was a long time coming. I know the layer of the small brown egg as only have 1 that could lay a small brown.
However, do the three blue green eggs look like they were from 3 seperate hens, or can eggs vary in shape and size and color slightly from day to day? I was under the impression that all eggs are basically the same everytime from each hen unless there is a deficiency or something.

One is significantly larger. One is darker. One is about the same color as the largest but smaller.

The other hens are an easter egger and two F1 light olive egger that I bred from an australorp and bluey easter egger.

EE eggs can have some variation in the beginning of their laying journey. It could be from different pullets, or you could also be getting some slightly different shades of eggs from same pullet. If you get 2-3 a day, you have at least 3 laying pullets. If you want, you can also check their pelvic bones, I saw a tutorial on YouTube a while ago.

 

[EllieandOlive]

EE eggs can have some variation in the beginning of their laying journey. It could be from different pullets, or you could also be getting some slightly different shades of eggs from same pullet. If you get 2-3 a day, you have at least 3 laying pullets. If you want, you can also check their pelvic bones, I saw a tutorial on YouTube a while ago.

Okay! I'll check into that video now. Also, is size pretty set (at least before first molt) or could the smaller egg and larger egg be laid by the same gal?

 

[Quaen]

Okay! I'll check into that video now. Also, is size pretty set (at least before first molt) or could the smaller egg and larger egg be laid by the same gal?

Eggs tend to get larger over time. Pullets can lay a small egg, sometimes a fairy egg, and still lay a large egg later on.

 

[EllieandOlive]

EE eggs can have some variation in the beginning of their laying journey. It could be from different pullets, or you could also be getting some slightly different shades of eggs from same pullet. If you get 2-3 a day, you have at least 3 laying pullets. If you want, you can also check their pelvic bones, I saw a tutorial on YouTube a while ago.

Oh and another question. One of the eggs has speckles. (A few white ones on it. Does that mean that hen has the 'speckle gene' and will always lay a speckled egg? Or could it be a new layer fluke or calcium regulating?

 

[EllieandOlive]

Oh and another question. One of the eggs has speckles. (A few white ones on it. Does that mean that hen has the 'speckle gene' and will always lay a speckled egg? Or could it be a new layer fluke or calcium regulating?

 

[Quaen]

Oh and another question. One of the eggs has speckles. (A few white ones on it. Does that mean that hen has the 'speckle gene' and will always lay a speckled egg? Or could it be a new layer fluke or calcium regulating?

Its a new layer glitch (a good kind though). Many new layers lay eggs with speckles and in the future they don't. I have has many like that. Its just some extra calcium bits on the egg I believe, totally normal and not harmful.

 

[EllieandOlive]

Its a new layer glitch (a good kind though). Many new layers lay eggs with speckles and in the future they don't. I have has many like that. Its just some extra calcium bits on the egg I believe, totally normal and not harmful.

Thank you for your wisdom! I've only had one non-brown layer (I have 35 birds) and these are all her babies so this is really fun and special to determine whose is whose. My last resort will be putting them in a quarantine kennel for a day or two, one hen at a time to figure it out. I like being able to know each egg from each hen so I know who laid what and when. My girls also like to know which hens egg is for breakfast lol!

 

[Quaen]

Thank you for your wisdom! I've only had one non-brown layer (I have 35 birds) and these are all her babies so this is really fun and special to determine whose is whose. My last resort will be putting them in a quarantine kennel for a day or two, one hen at a time to figure it out. I like being able to know each egg from each hen so I know who laid what and when. My girls also like to know which hens egg is for breakfast lol!

Understandable...I do it too

 

[rosemarythyme]

I like being able to know each egg from each hen so I know who laid what and when. My girls also like to know which hens egg is for breakfast lol!

I watch mine lay to figure it out. It's fun being able to hand someone a carton of eggs and point out which eggs belong to which chicken. Sometimes my mother in law requests more eggs from a certain chicken, because she likes the size or the way it boils or whatnot.