Color of eggs

[RWise]

I have an EE that appears to lay different color eggs, but they are not. She lays a brown egg (brown shell) and paints it with a purple hue. The thickness of the coating varies and thus the egg color seems to vary.
IF you only have these 2, could one of them lay one color with the other laying the green/blue eggs?

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Ameraucana cannot lay green eggs. They are specifically bred to lay blue, and nothing but blue. If your girls are laying green, then they're EE.

And I agree with @Peppercorngal and @KikisGirls , chickens can having shades in a specific color; lighter or darker, but they can't change the color of their eggs altogether. They must have stopped laying for a while, or are hiding them somewhere.

 

[Ruth Pasley]

Ameraucana cannot lay green eggs. They are specifically bred to lay blue, and nothing but blue. If your girls are laying green, then they're EE.

And I agree with @Peppercorngal and @KikisGirls , chickens can having shades in a specific color; lighter or darker, but they can't change the color of their eggs altogether. They must have stopped laying for a while, or are hiding them somewhere.

I think she may be taking a rest then. They aren’t free range so it would be hard for her to hide them. I’m thinking EE too, because of the egg color.

 

[Ruth Pasley]

I have an EE that appears to lay different color eggs, but they are not. She lays a brown egg (brown shell) and paints it with a purple hue. The thickness of the coating varies and thus the egg color seems to vary.
IF you only have these 2, could one of them lay one color with the other laying the green/blue eggs?

After reading all these post, that is the conclusion I’m coming to. Hopefully I’ll start getting some more green eggs soon.

 

[Farmerwife1]

when we got our chickens about 3 weeks ago 2 of them were laying green eggs. They have quit laying green eggs,& now are laying pale pink to light buff color. I kinda like the green eggs & I’m thinking a change in type of food may precipitate this change. Any suggestions on how to get my green eggs back.

I had read once an Easter Egger started laying, what ever color they lay, will be the color. But, one of my Easter Eggers started. By laying a lovely blue egg for 2 1/2 months and now lays pink eggs. One of my Olive Eggers has just starting laying her Olive colored eggs with lovely brown speckles on them.

 

[adstowe]

I'm not an expert, but pretty sure that can't happen. EE can lay a variety of colors, but one who lays blue or green eggs shouldn't be able to start laying pink. There are two shell colors. Blue and white. Brown eggs are simply white eggs with a "tint" added. Blue eggs are blue and green eggs are blue with brown "tint" added to the blue shell. If she layed blue they could sway towards green, but pink is a color associated with white shells. Their level of "tint" varies but, the root shell color shouldn't. If you crack a brown shell and peel back the membrane inside it's a white shell underneath. With a blue or green it's blue.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Ya I agree its not going to happen.
If she was laying blue eggs she has at least one gene for blue eggs. Also means she has no genes for the brown tint.
Pink egg would be no blue egg genes and some genes for brown tint.
No way I'm believing she could change her genetics to lose the blue egg gene and gain brown tint genes.
More likely someone's mistaking who's laying what.

 

[Farmerwife1]

I'm not an expert, but pretty sure that can't happen. EE can lay a variety of colors, but one who lays blue or green eggs shouldn't be able to start laying pink. There are two shell colors. Blue and white. Brown eggs are simply white eggs with a "tint" added. Blue eggs are blue and green eggs are blue with brown "tint" added to the blue shell. If she layed blue they could sway towards green, but pink is a color associated with white shells. Their level of "tint" varies but, the root shell color shouldn't. If you crack a brown shell and peel back the membrane inside it's a white shell underneath. With a blue or green it's blue.

All I can say is it did happen