"Easter Egger" laying brown eggs--is this common?

[mxschwartz]

I'm not entirely sure, but I have a sneaky suspicion my easter egger (hatchery) just started laying and is not laying green/blue eggs.

I am thinking of isolating her so I can know for sure.

But, before I do that, I am wondering: how often do hatchery easter eggers not have the colored egg gene?

Michael

 

[speckledhen]

Very common since Easter Eggers are crossbreeds. If you want blue eggs, you'd need to get Ameraucanas or Araucanas from a breeder.

 

[fordmommy]

"Easter Egger" chickens can lay any color eggs. It's just people relate them as a"green egg layer". No guarantees with them.

 

[paddock36]

I have one that looks just like an EE but she lays brown eggs too. I keep thinking about getting rid of her but she lays pretty steady.

 

[sciencechick]

Yep...
My hatchery "Ameraucana" turned out to be an EE and then didn't even lay green eggs... just a light brown
That was the only reason I got that hen

 

[chicks4kids]

My EE lays a whitish/cream egg-figures.....

 

[fancbrd4me02]

I have never bought a hatchery EE that laid anything other than a brown or white egg....Although other here have had some that laid green or blue.

 

[4 Love of Baby Chickens]

Out of my 3 EE hen's only one lays brown eggs. The other two lay a olive green egg and a light sky blue egg.

I'm happy and satisfied with them. Their very pretty and friendly. Pretty good layers too.

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

My 5 adult EEs (from hatcheries) are all laying green or blue eggs. I have some younger ones that have just started laying and I haven't isolated them to see which one is laying which egg, but I am getting some small blue/green pullet eggs now, so I know at least some of the new ones are laying the right color. As far as I know the younger EEs haven't laid any brown ones yet (no small unidentified brown eggs in the nests), but they haven't all started laying yet.

I think some EEs may lay brown, but that it isn't the norm.

 

[Illia]

My only EE hen lays a light brown egg. . . She even has a weird looking, flopsy (every point flops in a different direction) single comb. I think it is the norm for you to have atleast one EE from a hatchery order that lays a brown egg, but it shouldn't be too common. Even though that means they have practically no blue gene, I personally still call them EEs. Mine still has muffs and a beard, the typical EE color, and slate to green colored legs.