Black hen lays different color & size eggs!

[dkkirby]

Have you ever seen such?

 

[The Phantom]

Each hen is different. I have one that will always lay a huge tan egg. You would think it would be a double yolker but it has more of a double white.

 

[sylviethecochin]

Are you sure it's the same hen?

Anyway, chickens do often lay different sizes of eggs, and they tend to distribute the same amount of pigment on their eggs, so a larger egg is going to be rather lighter than a smaller egg because there's less pigment for the surface area. The purplish egg has excess blume, which occasionally does happen, but usually, if a hen lays one egg with a lot of blume, the rest of her eggs are also covered in more blume than normal.

Is she, by chance, an Australorp? They do often make the more purple eggs.

 

[dkkirby]

Are you sure it's the same hen?

Anyway, chickens do often lay different sizes of eggs, and they tend to distribute the same amount of pigment on their eggs, so a larger egg is going to be rather lighter than a smaller egg because there's less pigment for the surface area. The purplish egg has excess blume, which occasionally does happen, but usually, if a hen lays one egg with a lot of blume, the rest of her eggs are also covered in more blume than normal.

Is she, by chance, an Australorp? They do often make the more purple eggs.

That is her. I call her Opal. Her first eggs were smaller and coffee brown! She is just now coming of egg laying age and is very good at giving us eggs.