Can Auracanas start laying different color egg than they started green

[newbiechickenowner]

Can Auracanas change the color eggs that they are laying? All my chickens are young, started laying in January. 2 auracanas and 11 others various breeds. For almost 3 months, the auracanas each laid a green egg EVERY day...without missing hardly any days at all. Everyone else was pretty regular every day or every other day....11 to 12 eggs per day per 13 chickens. Then, about 10-12 days ago or so, the Auracanas stopped laying and have not laid an egg since....unless their egg color can change for no reason to a brown with spots. is this possible? I heard not, but, it seems hard to believe that they would just stop when everyone else is laying constantly and they were so consistent....not to have one. both very healthy happy birds.

Thanks,

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

I don't think they'd change color, but here's a bump as I'd like to hear the response.

 

[Dixiedoodle]

I am sorry but you have Easter Eggers NOT Araucanas. I know that's probably what they sold them to you as but true Araucanas lay blue eggs..

According to 'eggperts'-eggs can change from light green to darker green or a more olive green or green w/ brown spots but not from green to brown ... or brown to blue or green..

Someone posted about their EE, laying great for a few weeks/months and then take a break for a while.. Some have EE that lay every day and others have EE that lay only a few a week.. Being mixed breeds, it is really hard to pin-point their cycles, as you might do for pure breeds..

 

[Illia]

Sorry but what you have are not Araucanas. Hatcheries and Feedstores sell falsely claimed "Araucanas and/or Ameraucanas" - When they're a crossbred chicken called Easter Eggers.

Can the colors change? Well, not in hues - But in tints, yes. Especially in dark egg layers and colored egg layers - When they first start out, it can change around from weird khaki green tones to more blue-green tones, and get richer in color, then as the pullet matures to a hen and goes on through its years, the egg will become more and more pale.

 

[newbiechickenowner]

So how do we know they are EE and not Auracanas for sure? Are there other ways to tell? The other hens that I have I may have misrepresented...they are not cross breeds, but, several different types of hens (several Rhode Island reds, buff orpingtons, deleware, etc). They came from a hatchery to a farm and then were raised there and I got them at 3 months old......So, if they are EE or Auracana (which people are thinking not?) then, their egg color wouldn't change to a brown anyway?
Thanks