Bluest egg ever

[Ganesh-Saahd]

Hi good company!

This morning I went to collecty eggs and I encountered the most surprising blue egg that my Easter egger ever laid.

I'm wondering what could be the cause of this? I know that the blue is due to a different cellular pattern in those chickens, originating from molecule working with/from the liver (my exact knowledge of this is a bit rusty, sorry). Is it normal ? Does she have a metabolic problem or something?

She just started laying again after about a 3 months break. We got a couple of normal blue eggs before this one.

She's my only blue/green layer. She's 3 years old, Ameraucana mix (was sold to me as an Ameraucana, when I was still so naive haha)

Picture attached show 2 normal eggs on the left, next to the very blue one. It's almost a dark peacock teal.

The ones on the left are really sky blue, even if they appear white-ish in comparison of the hue of the new one!

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Does she have a metabolic problem or something?

She just started laying again after about a 3 months break. We got a couple of normal blue eggs before this one.

She's my only blue/green layer. She's 3 years old, Ameraucana mix (was sold to me as an Ameraucana, when I was still so naive haha)

Picture attached show 2 normal eggs on the left, next to the very blue one. It's almost a dark peacock teal.

Sounds like a standard return to lay hiccup. It will likely level back out and decrease hue as the season progresses.

Looks beautiful!

 

[Aunt Angus]

Hi good company!

This morning I went to collecty eggs and I encountered the most surprising blue egg that my Easter egger ever laid.

I'm wondering what could be the cause of this? I know that the blue is due to a different cellular pattern in those chickens, originating from molecule working with/from the liver (my exact knowledge of this is a bit rusty, sorry). Is it normal ? Does she have a metabolic problem or something?

She just started laying again after about a 3 months break. We got a couple of normal blue eggs before this one.

She's my only blue/green layer. She's 3 years old, Ameraucana mix (was sold to me as an Ameraucana, when I was still so naive haha)

Picture attached show 2 normal eggs on the left, next to the very blue one. It's almost a dark peacock teal.

The ones on the left are really sky blue, even if they appear white-ish in comparison of the hue of the new one!

So pretty! I don't have any EEs that are laying yet, but I do know that with my chocolate layer, he eggs start out very dark at the beginning of her laying cycle and get lighter as time passes. I bet it's similar with blue layers, too.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I had a blue copper maran that hiccuped purple...

I had a welsummer who laid really spotty in the beginning... now not so much...

Below are my younger birds their colors have faded too

And the dark gray layers now lay just a green.

 

[Aunt Angus]

I had a blue copper maran that hiccuped purple...View attachment 3205487
I had a welsummer who laid really spotty in the beginning... now not so much...
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Below are my younger birds their colors have faded too
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And the dark gray layers now lay just a green.
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[Ganesh-Saahd]

Oh well! Good thing then.
It's a first in 3 years tho