Does the breed of a rooster affect egg color?

[Alphamale303]

No, the color will not be affected

I’m not so sure, I have sisters and a brother, red sex link I think they were called. The hens played large dark brown eggs, I had to isolate one of the hens and the other hen was mated by my australorp and has been laying eggs the same color as the Australorp hens when it was previously much darker and larger. I have put her in with the other sex link hen and she just laid her first egg since the move, about 4 days ago and it looks like the australorp’s. I will monitor and see if it reverts to the original color and size.

 

[NatJ]

I’m not so sure, I have sisters and a brother, red sex link I think they were called. The hens played large dark brown eggs, I had to isolate one of the hens and the other hen was mated by my australorp and has been laying eggs the same color as the Australorp hens when it was previously much darker and larger. I have put her in with the other sex link hen and she just laid her first egg since the move, about 4 days ago and it looks like the australorp’s. I will monitor and see if it reverts to the original color and size.

It is common for hens that lay brown eggs to start out with darker eggs, and later lay lighter eggs as time goes on. When the hen stops laying for a while (like molting in the fall) and then starts again, her eggs go through the same cycle again, starting darker and becoming lighter over time.

That is a general pattern, but it is also common for a hen to lay an egg here and there that is noticeably darker or lighter than the color she normally lays.

I notice this was your first post, so you probably are not familiar with some details of the forum. Each post has a date on it. The post you responded to is almost ten years old: itwas made on Sep 1, 2014.

This exact subject is one where 10 years will make no difference to what is true or not, but re-starting an old thread is sometimes awkward so most people prefer not to revive the really old ones. Some other subjects sound really silly when people resurrect them (like giving advice for an egg-hatching or chick-sexing situation that happened many years ago.)