Are EE's eggs always blue?

[RebelEgger]

I have 3 EE, and of the 2 laying my first laid a nice green egg and the other lays a brown egg. I thought I’d be disappointed if they didn’t lay a blue or green but after waiting so long (30 weeks!) I am just happy to have eggs!!

 

[Anime2lover]

Hello, my 6 month old girls have been laying eggs for 5 weeks now. I have 13 mixed breed hens and all but the two EEs started laying at week 20. We are now getting 11-12-13 eggs every day! Yippeeee, it's fun. We do keep a light on in the coop for about 10 hours a day.

Anyway I have a question about my two EE's. Pepper started laying about 2 weeks after the Isa Browns, CA White Leghorns, Golden Sex links, RIR. I believe that EEs are usually late bloomers. Her eggs (with the exception of one day) are always a beautiful blue/green. She lays about every other day. Zippy, the other EE just started laying last week, about 2 weeks after Pepper. Her first egg was round, very small, whitish beige, It's the first "almost white" egg I've seen out of all our Isa Browns, CA White Leghorns, RIR and golden sex liks. It looked a little odd. However, we did eat it and it was fine inside.

Today I saw Zippy in the nesting box (both EEs take a very long time in there) and then when I went out later to find her egg, it was nice , small size and looks good -- except again, it's not blue, it's light beige. Here's a pic of Zippy's light beige egg and Pepper's blue, for comparison.

So do EE's sometimes lay beigey eggs rather than blue? Is that a nutrition deficiency that I should look into? Might it be a temporary thing or is she probably going to be a beige egg laying EE? How normal or abnormal is this?

The other factor that makes me wonder, is that both Zippy and Pepper are near the bottom of the pecking order and are picked on regularly by the CA White Leghorns -- I've seen it when I give them their daily treats and at other times. A few of the Isa Browns peck at them too. Could it be that Zippy (not so much Pepper) is NOT getting the full nutrition she needs to lay blue eggs? I kind of doubt that's why, because they have free access to Flock Raiser, Grit, and Oyster shell all day, and water of course. No shortage of good food, greens, chicken scratch, and snacks. We only do supervised free ranging once a week (in winter now) because of the hawks and predators.

The basic question: do EE's, even mixed breeds, lay different color eggs other than blue? Is there anything, any health issue, I should be checking for?
[edit: the blue egg is actually more blue/green than it looks here.]

Totally normal. Mine give some that are so light that I mistook them for being actually white. We also get the cream, green, and blues from ours.

 

[CrazyTownChick]

I have 3 EE, and of the 2 laying my first laid a nice green egg and the other lays a brown egg. I thought I’d be disappointed if they didn’t lay a blue or green but after waiting so long (30 weeks!) I am just happy to have eggs!!
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Congrats! Those are some pretty eggs!