A green egg from a... Maran?

[3H Homestead]

Hello everyone! I got a handful of Copper Maran chicks back at the beginning of April. They have now been in my chicken run with my Brahmas, Easter Eggers, Polish, Buff Orp, and Barred rock for some time now. I went to grab eggs this afternoon and lo and behold, found a small, pullet sized egg, but GREEN! My 3 Easter Eggers are pretty solid layers, although not all 3 have laid today. Have any of you had your maran pullet lay a green egg? Could this egg have suddenly come from my regular large egg laying Easter Egger?

 

[sourland]

Far more likely than from one of your other birds.

 

[nuthatched]

Where'd you get your maran and can we see pictures? She could be an olive eggers if it isn't one of your ees that are laying.

 

[HiEverybirdy]

Older birds definitely pop out a little egg now and again. I'd suspect one of your EEs. Laying hiccups can happen more frequently in hot or severe weather, if they're shaken up by something like fireworks, if they're about to molt, that kind of thing.

If your Marans hatched at the beginning of April, they're still probably a couple months away from laying anyway.

Pretty eggs. I bet you're excited about Marans eggs!

 

[Kiki]

Depends on where/who you bought the birds from.
Clear pictures of the birds?

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

The only way a maran would lay an egg that color is if shes not a proper marans. The gene for the dark eggs is recessive so if they're crossed with something you won't get the dark eggs. But April chicks won't be laying yet so I suspect its just not her egg

 

[3H Homestead]

Older birds definitely pop out a little egg now and again. I'd suspect one of your EEs. Laying hiccups can happen more frequently in hot or severe weather, if they're shaken up by something like fireworks, if they're about to molt, that kind of thing.

If your Marans hatched at the beginning of April, they're still probably a couple months away from laying anyway.

Pretty eggs. I bet you're excited about Marans eggs!

Thank you for that! I'll bet it was fireworks from July 4th! The next day, I received regular eggs from my EEs, but your explanation makes perfect sense! I thought it was extremely early for my Marans, the cockerel hasn't even gotten his full "cockadoodle doo" in, yet.

 

[3H Homestead]

Depends on where/who you bought the birds from.
Clear pictures of the birds?

I'll do my best to get pictures of my Marans when I get out to my morning chores. All there Marans look very Maran-like, but I did get them from Tractor Supply so there's no telling if they're true Marans or not