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

[EggSighted4Life]

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Your eggs are beautiful!

But if that's supposed to be a representation of your "white" eggs, I DON'T see a white egg in that whole lot.

The very top light blue egg is very pale though.

I'm gonna stick with your egg shade may have changed, as all do throughout the season... but NOT you color.

 

[MysteryChik]

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.

I'm sure they could just be getting lighter but they're so young. We got them as chicks in March! And it wasn't like they slowly faded over time (the EEeggs) just BOOM one day no color

 

[BYC910]

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Those are nice eggs . Sometimes marans run out of paint you can wash off the brown color on marans eggs when they are fresh and they will be tan or pinkish tan . I have a couple of blue layers that lay near white some times . Next to true blue you would swear they are white . Is this a current picture? Or before the color change ?

 

[MysteryChik]

Your eggs are beautiful!

But if that's supposed to be a representation of your "white" eggs, I DON'T see a white egg in that whole lot.

The very top light blue egg is very pale though.

I'm gonna stick with your egg shade may have changed, as all do throughout the season... but NOT you color.

No I don't have any of the white ones on there. That was an older pic when they FIRST started laying. The colors were very pale, (the blue and green) then got darker. Now white. I will post a pic later today after collecting if they've given me an egg today and show what I mean by white. Thank you for the compliment

 

[MysteryChik]

Those are nice eggs . Sometimes marans run out of paint you can wash off the brown color on marans eggs when they are fresh and they will be tan or pinkish tan . I have a couple of blue layers that lay near white some times . Next to true blue you would swear they are white . Is this a current picture? Or before the color change ?

Before the color change. The blue and green were one of the first eggs I got from them, they darkened up a bit then turned what I call white. I am going to try to put pic of it later if the girls have given me one. Yesterday was terrible egg day. Out of 26 laying hens, I got three. But I think it has something to do with my newer birds being introduced to my existing flock. They were sectioned off for a couple weeks. Just recently put them together and I think they're not quite use to them yet.

 

[BYC910]

I have EEs that are going into their forth year and I swear the eggs are bluer now than when they first started laying .A lot of modern Ameraucana breeders have been breeding for a lighter blue eggs . it can be very disappointing to have near white eggs from those. It could be your gene pool just caught up to that . There are color enhancing feeds . You might try one of those .Was me I would just wait it out eat them eggs and not worry about it . Come spring it might change .JS

 

[venymae]

I'm not sure if this is what is happening to you, but our eggs went from VERY blue (in our two EE's) to VERY pale within the first year they laid. It was a bit of a bummer.

 

[MysteryChik]

I'm not sure if this is what is happening to you, but our eggs went from VERY blue (in our two EE's) to VERY pale within the first year they laid. It was a bit of a bummer.

Could be. Ours have only been laying since September

 

[aart]

I'm not sure if this is what is happening to you, but our eggs went from VERY blue (in our two EE's) to VERY pale within the first year they laid. It was a bit of a bummer.

I think @Ridgerunner know the details of blue shell pigment.

 

[venymae]

@aart this explains the real basics (from MSU extension office)

"All eggs start out white in color; those that are laid in shades other than white have pigments deposited on them as the eggs travel through the hen’s oviduct. The journey through the chicken’s oviduct takes approximately 26 hours. The shell takes roughly 20 hour to be complete. Ameraucana birds have the pigment oocyanin deposited on the egg as it travels through the oviduct. This pigment permeates the egg shell resulting in the interior and exterior of the egg being the same blue color. Chickens that lay brown tinted eggs deposit the pigment protoporphyrin on the eggs late in the process of forming the shell. The pigment therefore does not penetrate the interior of the egg, but tints only the surface of the egg, which is why brown eggs are white on the interior. In the case of an Olive Egger, a brown pigment overlays a blue egg shell resulting in a green egg. The darker the brown pigment the more olive color of the resulting egg."

doesn't talk about why it lessens though!