Brown Layers Laying White egg

[Sennee]

I have 5 hens all brown layer, a wyandotte, a brahma, and threee australorps. I'm not sure which butone of my hens layed an unusually large pale egg. They're all no older then a year or so. Is this normal?

 

[chfite]

I have 9 brown egg layers. Occasionally, one will lay a white egg. I just put it in with the others. I don't know that the color of the shell has anything to do with anything. After all, the color will wash off.


Chris

 

[chickengeorgeto]

The color is added in the last 90 or so minutes that the egg remains inside the hen. Also sick and old hens lay eggs that are a lighter shade of pale.

 

[1muttsfan]

Brown eggs are actually white shells with a surface layer of brown pigment. Sometimes the brown pigment in not layed on as thickly, or is skipped; also, as hens lay for a long time their eggs tend to get paler in color.