ALL of my eggs are now a different color YES EVEN MY EE's!

[MysteryChik]

I have Buff orpingtons, hyline browns, golden comets, a black cuckoo maran, silver laced wyandottes, and PBRs. ALL Of my hens legs have been getting lighter and lighter in color for the last couple weeks. I am assuming that maybe it is the change of temp, and/or loss of daylight that may have something to do with it. A couple of them have just finished molting as well.(but not all)

ALSO.. I have read over and over on here that what I am about to type is not possible but it is!! These EE's use to be in with all my others, but I took them out to do this experiment:

I have three EE hens that are now alone in a coop, and run. Two of them use to lay green eggs, and one of them blue eggs. I posted on here, and was told it wasn't possible for their colors to change. (So, I separated them from my other 30 hens.) .. observed their laying.. and when they lay I get WHITE EGGS. For MONTHS I was getting colored eggs, now I haven't gotten a colored egg in over three weeks. ONLY WHITE/creamPlease, someone explain.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Egg shade can vary throughout the laying season. Being lighter as more eggs are laid. ALL eggs are white underneath except those that are TRUE blue. Any color is simply a layer added during the "spray booth" part of the process, as the egg exits the vent. If caught early enough while still wet, you can even rub it off.

There is also some illness that can have a bleaching effect on eggs. Maybe a virus? I can't really remember. A good article, maybe some insight...
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/vm047

 

[BYC910]

Egg shade can vary throughout the laying season. Being lighter as more eggs are laid. ALL eggs are white underneath except those that are TRUE blue. Any color is simply a layer added during the "spray booth" part of the process, as the egg exits the vent. If caught early enough while still wet, you can even rub it off.

There is also some illness that can have a bleaching effect on eggs. Maybe a virus? I can't really remember. A good article, maybe some insight...
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/vm047

Never had any issue with blue egg layers as far as color . If the eggs are white what color are they on the inside ? All my blue egg layers lay a blue egg through and trough .Check your water supply for contaminates . And feed for ingredient change .

 

[aart]

The brown coating can definitely fade, as can the blue pigment in the shell,
near the end of the laying cycle, right before molting.

Open those EE eggs and immediately peel the white membrane from inside.
Put that shell on a white piece of paper in good bright light,
you'll probably still see a tint of blue.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

If the eggs are white what color are they on the inside ?

Also white.

Only true blue are through and through.

 

[aart]

Also white.

Only true blue are through and through.

But you may have to peel the white inner membranes out of the inside of shell to see the blue inside the shell.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

But you may have to peel the white inner membranes out of the inside of shell to see the blue inside the shell.

I didn't realize that. We have one girl that we go back and forth as to whether or not the are blue through and through. That may be the reason it looks whiter sometimes.

Thanks for the info.

 

[aart]

I didn't realize that. We have one girl that we go back and forth as to whether or not the are blue through and through. That may be the reason it looks whiter sometimes.

Thanks for the info.

Yep, check it out! Membrane can be tough to get out of inside, best to do so as soon as you break them open.

Open those EE eggs and immediately peel the white membrane from inside.
Put that shell on a white piece of paper in good bright light,
you'll probably still see a tint of blue.

 

[MysteryChik]

Egg shade can vary throughout the laying season. Being lighter as more eggs are laid. ALL eggs are white underneath except those that are TRUE blue. Any color is simply a layer added during the "spray booth" part of the process, as the egg exits the vent. If caught early enough while still wet, you can even rub it off.

There is also some illness that can have a bleaching effect on eggs. Maybe a virus? I can't really remember. A good article, maybe some insight...
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/vm047

Never had any issue with blue egg layers as far as color . If the eggs are white what color are they on the inside ? All my blue egg layers lay a blue egg through and trough .Check your water supply for contaminates . And feed for ingredient change .

The brown coating can definitely fade, as can the blue pigment in the shell,
near the end of the laying cycle, right before molting.

Open those EE eggs and immediately peel the white membrane from inside.
Put that shell on a white piece of paper in good bright light,
you'll probably still see a tint of blue.

 

[venymae]

So just my thought....eggs get lighter as chooks age. Could yours just be getting lighter. I agree with putting them next to a true white egg (hello grocery store!) or white paper and seeing what they look like. Report back please! I love a good mystery.