Araucana Egg Color Question

[Araucana Nest]

I know brown eggs are a fault and I don't want brown egg layers or roos from brown eggs in my flock. I have seen the flock from which my eggs came and this is my second purchase from this breeder. I purchased six eggs this time and three of them aren't obviously blue in color. They are like a cream color. Of the five eggs that have made it thus far, three eggs have pipped. Two of them are this cream color which may be described in other terms, I guess, but not as brown or any shade of brown (I have many brown egg layers and this is not a shade they lay). My question is whether, this late in the season, the hens could actually just not be laying blue, blue eggs?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I know brown eggs are a fault and I don't want brown egg layers or roos from brown eggs in my flock. I have seen the flock from which my eggs came and this is my second purchase from this breeder. I purchased six eggs this time and three of them aren't obviously blue in color. They are like a cream color. Of the five eggs that have made it thus far, three eggs have pipped. Two of them are this cream color which may be described in other terms, I guess, but not as brown or any shade of brown (I have many brown egg layers and this is not a shade they lay). My question is whether, this late in the season, the hens could actually just not be laying blue, blue eggs?

Egg color doesn't change. They would still be laying blue eggs

 

[Araucana Nest]

Egg color doesn't change. They would still be laying blue eggs

Yes, but would it fade with the season? My CL blue eggs fade. Wondering if these hens laid a greenish egg and this is the resulting fade as the season progressed?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I've never heard of eggs fading seasonally. Mine don't

 

[Araucana Nest]

Well after a bit of an immersive reading experience, I learned that Araucana egg color is produced by a retrovirus. And I found this:
"All Araucana do not lay perfectly blue eggs, they will range in shade form olive green to almost white."
http://www.araucana.com/Tufts-Rumpless-Blue Egg-Pea Comb.htm

So my question about whether these eggs are brown has been answered.

 

[willchickeneat]

blue eggs, when cracked, inside should be tinge of blue.