Araucana laying brown eggs???

[Braxton Brigade]

So my family bought our chickens about 2 weeks ago and love them... BUT I am unsure about why my hen is laying a brown egg. See we bought a flock that was all laying and full grown to avoid raising chicks inside, however we are supposed to have 2 Easter eggers, 2 white leghorns, 1 gold lace wyandotte and 1 rumpless and tuff less araucana (sorry if I misspell that). He told me we should get 2 green eggs, 2 brown and 2 white and we do, but I'm extremely confused about why our araucana lays brown eggs (sometimes with speckels). As I understand it she should not lay brown or white ever if she's a purebred... so why the brown eggs?

 

[sourland]

Are you sure that it's not one of the EE that is laying brown eggs?

 

[Frankie Ruiz]

if it's a real araucana (very rare and hard to come by) it would lay blue eggs. it is most likely a clean faced easter egger. I've gotten them clean faced before and heard of them laying brown eggs too

 

[Braxton Brigade]

It would be odd. My araucana is my smallest hen (she's the youngest) and everyone else's eggs are almost double the size, That and she's 1 of 2 hens that lay in this specific box.

 

[sourland]

As Frankie R says if she is laying brown eggs she is not a purebred Araucana.

 

[Braxton Brigade]

She's rumpless... can easter eggers be rumpless? I should post a picture of her later and see if we can sort this out haha.

 

[Braxton Brigade]

That was my understanding of the breed... Would green eggs make her a purebred? (sorry for all the questions)

 

[Braxton Brigade]

I got these eggs all the same day... Would that middle perhaps be considered a blue? I don't get those as often and I got 2 white that day ( the leghorns) 2 brown that one and a green. so I'm not sure about this all

( I have only 6 hens btw)

 

[waddles99]

As others have been saying if it lays brown its not a true Araucana. Sorry that you had to find out this far down the road. On the plus side, if she's a good layer, keep her! Theres no reason not to(unless you are very limited on space and want blue eggs only).

 

[Mutt Farm]

Unless you actually watched your 'Araucana", "Aracana" "Anericauna" "Americana" lay a brown egg, I'd bet she laid the little light blue one.