Did an Olive Egger lay this??

[TyRi]

I have quite a few different breeds but nobody lays a dark egg. The ones in question are the 2 outside eggs and I added the other ones for comparison!!
Other breeds are:

Amberlink
Sliver Laced Wyandotte
Pearl Star
Blue Rock
Barred Rock
and then my Olive Eggers

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

 

[Hungry Chicken]

Sometimes egg color can get darker/lighter for different reasons (maybe heat? I'm not too sure) but it will never change color if that makes sense. So brown egg can get lighter or darker but won't turn blue. I'm not very familiar with your breeds so I couldn't say which one laid it but I'm pretty sure it was not an Olive Egger. I have an Olive Egger and her eggs are distinctly green compared to the rest. I would assume someone just laid a couple darker than normal eggs. Attached picture of olive egg vs. regular brown egg. Hopefully this is somewhat helpful, sorry if it's all over the place. How old are they/how long have they been laying?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

You sure you do not have a Marans in your flock somewhere? Nobody has feathered feet? Maybe post pics of your birds, somebody is not who she claims to be, I think!

 

[PrettyBirdRocky]

I have quite a few different breeds but nobody lays a dark egg. The ones in question are the 2 outside eggs and I added the other ones for comparison!!
Other breeds are:

Amberlink
Sliver Laced Wyandotte
Pearl Star
Blue Rock
Barred Rock
and then my Olive Eggers

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

I'd still call that a brown, just darker. And not a dark brown(like a BCM). For instance we have Black Australorps all but one lay a pale brown nearly cream colored and the other one lays a darker egg closer to your darker ones.

It could be a slight variation of mix breed? Like they just have a darker coating?


Eta!!! Some Olive Eggers do infact lay darker brown eggs instead of actual green ones as they would end up with brown/brown genes

 

[Yardmom]

Do you know the details of the breeding of your Olive eggers? If the parent that was supposed to contribute the blue was genetically blue/not blue the offspring could lay brown instead of olive.
Not sure on Amberlink egg color. Could their eggs end up dark brown?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I found this:

Amber Link. A production brown egg layer, females have a white body with a few brown-reddish feathers. Slightly larger than a Red Sex link, and will also lay slightly darker eggs. Amber Link's are another high egg production breed that is slightly larger than her sister breed, the Red Sexlink

 

[FunClucks]

I have Red Star who lay eggs that color (the darker color you are asking about). So it could be your Pearl Star. Or it could be an Olive Egger who missed out on inheriting the blue egg gene.

 

[TyRi]

We just started getting eggs about a week ago and not everyone is laying yet so as they start popping its fun to guess whos is whos! They are all around 20-22 weeks old. I have always been worried my olive eggers would not put olive eggs out since i got them! Only reason I suspected one of them is because I know they breed dark brown to blue so thought maybe a dark brown gene was shining through!

 

[TyRi]

Do you know the details of the breeding of your Olive eggers? If the parent that was supposed to contribute the blue was genetically blue/not blue the offspring could lay brown instead of olive.
Not sure on Amberlink egg color. Could their eggs end up dark brown?

They have contradicting statements in their description! One says BCM and the next paragraph says cuckoo maran!

 

[TyRi]

You sure you do not have a Marans in your flock somewhere? Nobody has feathered feet? Maybe post pics of your birds, somebody is not who she claims to be, I think!

These are my ladies with their Clark! Everyone has clean feet!