Can one hen lay two eggs that are different colors??

[LunaMarieWolf]

I know that hens lay one color of egg their entire life, but can that color change from time to time?

Example: can a hen who has laid an almost spot-free brown egg give me another egg that is brown with dark brown speckles??

 

[igorsMistress]

Egg color fades as the season goes on. Sometimes the spray booth can speckle the eggs a bit too.

 

[chrissynemetz]

That's perfectly normal.

 

[EggWalrus]

The color or I should say the "shade" of the color might change a little bit, but not much except after molt. The shape will not change betweeen molts. The size might get larger but the shape should stay the same. Those 3 eggs came from 3 different chickens.

 

[chrissynemetz]

Those three eggs might have come from the same chicken.... I have a hen who occasionally lays different size eggs. She's 8 years old, and she's done this from the beginning. Sometimes huge, sometimes small, other times somewhere in between. And they aren't always shaped exactly the same.

 

[Verbon30]

I found that feed can change the color a shade or two. I got some lower quality feed ones and noticed it. Also when I wash my eggs I see spots that I don't see when they are dry.

 

[ChickNanny13]

The color or I should say the "shade" of the color might change a little bit, but not much except after molt. The shape will not change betweeen molts. The size might get larger but the shape should stay the same. Those 3 eggs came from 3 different chickens.

Agree ... Shade may vary but the shape pretty much remains the same although may get "larger" as the pullet matures. I can always tell who laid by their shape. Shade will vary depending on what they eat too and the age of the bird.

 

[Stepnout]

I have blue egg layer and an olive egg layer many times the blue eggs vary in shade and the olive egged many times her eggs are blue. It seems for 4-5 days she doesn’t dye the blue egg with the brown die leaving the egg a blue to green colour.
My brown layers eggs change shades of light and dark. One sometimes looks pink. My girls are just a barnyard mix but we love them just the way they are

 

[jolenesdad]

Those are from the same chicken I would assume. Hens that lay a speckled egg never look quite the same.

Bloom can occasionally change the color of the egg, and it can happen in a one-off situation. I’ve got an Orpington that changes from a pinkish with white speckles to a tan with grey speckles depending on her bloom and the humidity when she lays it. In the winter she is towards the pink, summer the tan, and spring and fall it can change almost daily.

 

[EggWalrus]

Those are from the same chicken I would assume. Hens that lay a speckled egg never look quite the same.

Bloom can occasionally change the color of the egg, and it can happen in a one-off situation. I’ve got an Orpington that changes from a pinkish with white speckles to a tan with grey speckles depending on her bloom and the humidity when she lays it. In the winter she is towards the pink, summer the tan, and spring and fall it can change almost daily.

Yep, color change can happen. But the shape (long, fat, skinny, round) doesn't change, the egg might get a little bigger after molt but the shape of the egg chamber inside of the chicken determines the shape. The shape can change after a hens reproductive system under goes rejuvenation during molt, but not normally between molts.