easter egg hen laying white egg?

[debid]

I'm putting my money on you having a new layer. Either one that you thought was laying wasn't or one you thought wasn't laying is now.

 

[eggsnatcher1960]

My EE, all lay different, I have light yellow, olive green, turquoise, tan and cream, most lay a the turqouise.

 

[she'scountry68]

I am sure of it,beause I only have to pullets in the coop and one layes a green egg and one layed a blue egg. The only other hen in the coop is a two year old Japanese. She still is laying a white egg, although it is a different size and shape from the Jap. Still waiting for a blue egg very confused

 

[she'scountry68]

DI wish I had all those colors. Do you have bantams?

 

[cashdl]

The only thing I can think of is typically with blue and green egg layers, the pullets first egg is way more vivid and deep a color than what she will lay as she gets older. I have had pullets lay deep turquoise eggs for the first one or two then settle down to lay light or pale turquoise eggs as the really get into laying. They never go back to the deep color. Two things could have happened. 1) the green egg layer actually laid a more blue egg the first time or two then settled in to a green egg color as she got going. I have had this happen often. Or the hen that now lays the white egg, laid the blue egg and is still laying a blue egg but the color has been washed out so now they appear so light as to be white.

Crack open the egg from the previous blue egg hen and look at the inside of it. Does it appear bluer than the outside? Also compare it to the egg of your actual white egg laying hen and see if it is just as white or does it indeed appear to be a very washed out blue.

Blue and green eggs are actually blue on the inside of the shell also. The green comes from the blue of the shell being coated with brown pigment after the shell is formed. So if your white egg is more blue on the inside then there is your answer.

Hope that all made sense.

Lanae

 

[she'scountry68]

I guess she felt a little blue today. Because I got a blue and green egg and a white egg today out of her coop. All three hens layed today. I guess she hasnt made her mine up which color she wants to lay.

 

[debid]

I guess she felt a little blue today. Because I got a blue and green egg and a white egg today out of her coop. All three hens layed today. I guess she hasnt made her mine up which color she wants to lay.

It just plain doesn't work that way. The blue egg gene doesn't switch on and off.

 

[Gorman Farm]

The only thing I can think of is typically with blue and green egg layers, the pullets first egg is way more vivid and deep a color than what she will lay as she gets older. I have had pullets lay deep turquoise eggs for the first one or two then settle down to lay light or pale turquoise eggs as the really get into laying. They never go back to the deep color. Two things could have happened. 1) the green egg layer actually laid a more blue egg the first time or two then settled in to a green egg color as she got going. I have had this happen often. Or the hen that now lays the white egg, laid the blue egg and is still laying a blue egg but the color has been washed out so now they appear so light as to be white.

Crack open the egg from the previous blue egg hen and look at the inside of it. Does it appear bluer than the outside? Also compare it to the egg of your actual white egg laying hen and see if it is just as white or does it indeed appear to be a very washed out blue.

Blue and green eggs are actually blue on the inside of the shell also. The green comes from the blue of the shell being coated with brown pigment after the shell is formed. So if your white egg is more blue on the inside then there is your answer.

Hope that all made sense.

Lanae

I know this is an older post but I was doing some research to figure out what is happening with my older EE hen, in her prime she laid olive colored eggs, she then stopped laying for several months. Lately she laid an olive egg, then after about a week she laid a almost white egg. Inside of egg same color as outside. I do not have any "white egg layers in coop" and all the other girls lay dark brown or greenish blue eggs and they were accounted for that day as I only have 7 hens laying. So that day I got 5 brown eggs accounting for all my brown layers, a blueish green egg very large from my other EE her eggs are a distinguishable shape, and then the white one a medium size and shape of hers, and I did see the older olive egger in the nesting box in question when I was feeding. So weird.