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A chicken that lays green eggs won't suddenly start to lay white eggs or brown eggs. Each chicken has its own colour. But that colour may vary in shade (lightness/darkness) depending on how old the bird is and how far through the laying season it is, and how close it is to moulting. Like, Marans lay dark brown eggs. But when they first start laying the eggs will be a lot darker than at the end of the year when winter is coming in. And after the bird has moulted and regrown new feathers and starts laying again, the eggs will probably be darker again. That only counts for the chickens that put a coloured coating on the eggs as they lay them, though.
There's a difference between the colour of the actual shell, and the colour of the coating that some birds deposit on the shell as they lay it. Like, the dark coating on a Marans egg can be scrubbed off, and the shell underneath is pale tan. But with blue egg layers, the blue is the colour of the shell, and when you break the egg open it's blue on the inside too. Green/olive eggs are actually blue eggs with a light brown coating on them. Are you now more confused, or less? LOL!
With some of my ISA Brown chickens, I can tell which one has laid which egg. They all lay large tan coloured eggs, but one lays paler eggs, with loads of speckles on them. One of lays giant eggs with a funny dark coloured rough patch at the pointy end. One lays pale eggs with scratchy nobbly calcium deposits all over them. I always think 'ouch!' when I see those ones...
A chicken that lays green eggs won't suddenly start to lay white eggs or brown eggs. Each chicken has its own colour. But that colour may vary in shade (lightness/darkness) depending on how old the bird is and how far through the laying season it is, and how close it is to moulting. Like, Marans lay dark brown eggs. But when they first start laying the eggs will be a lot darker than at the end of the year when winter is coming in. And after the bird has moulted and regrown new feathers and starts laying again, the eggs will probably be darker again. That only counts for the chickens that put a coloured coating on the eggs as they lay them, though.
There's a difference between the colour of the actual shell, and the colour of the coating that some birds deposit on the shell as they lay it. Like, the dark coating on a Marans egg can be scrubbed off, and the shell underneath is pale tan. But with blue egg layers, the blue is the colour of the shell, and when you break the egg open it's blue on the inside too. Green/olive eggs are actually blue eggs with a light brown coating on them. Are you now more confused, or less? LOL!
With some of my ISA Brown chickens, I can tell which one has laid which egg. They all lay large tan coloured eggs, but one lays paler eggs, with loads of speckles on them. One of lays giant eggs with a funny dark coloured rough patch at the pointy end. One lays pale eggs with scratchy nobbly calcium deposits all over them. I always think 'ouch!' when I see those ones...
