Easter Egger mystery

[doughouse]

I have a flock of eight chickens. I have five brown layers (barred rock, wyandotte, barnevelder, marans, and salmon favorelle), two white layers (both polish), and one easter egger. The two polishes, the salmon favorelle, and the easter egger are all pullets who are just now starting to lay their first eggs. After only having brown eggs I was excited to mix some white and blue or green eggs into our egg basket. Our salmon favorelle was the first of the new girls to start laying, giving up some small, pullet-sized creme-colored eggs. Then this past weekend our easter egger started laying mint green eggs, which was very exciting. Neither polish has started laying yet. This morning I went to check our nesting boxes and... there was a light blue egg.

My understanding was that egg color doesn't change. If you have an Easter Egger laying blue eggs, she's always going to lay blue. If she's laying green, she'll always lay green. If it's creme, she'll only lay creme, etc.

So either one of my polish girls is laying a white egg with a blue-ish tint, or maybe this is a light green that looks blue?

It's always hard to capture color just right in a photo, but here are two shots of the blue and green eggs next to either other. In natural light the blue is a little less pronounced, but you can really see it in indirect light.

 

[gimmie birdies]

My avatar laid a gray egg, but the bloom makes it look like diff colored grays.

below is my Maran, she laid the purple and the dark brown egg, just the bloom was diff.

 

[doughouse]

I'm right in remembering that a green egg layer can't lay blue eggs and vice versa, right?

 

[aart]

I'm right in remembering that a green egg layer can't lay blue eggs and vice versa, right?

No.
A green egg has a blue shell with a brown coating,
sometimes the brown coating can be missing so the blue shell is what you're seeing.
Probably just a new layer glitch, spray booth not up to snuff yet.

 

[SpicyDisaster]

It's possible it's a bloom difference with a new layer. Depending on feed, temperature, and extra calcium consumed our EE will lay light blue to light green eggs. There used to be more variety at the beginning of laying though the start of laying after winter had a bit of variety for a few weeks as well. We have a camera in the coop so see who's in the boxes

 

[linguini]

Those two eggs look like they were from two different chickens! different color and different size. Although the egg size of a hen may change over time as she matures.

When you use the egg - please check the color inside the shell and see if they are the same color, that'll give you some more information!

 

[aart]

When you use the egg - please check the color inside the shell and see if they are the same color, that'll give you some more information!

Yes, but pull the white inner membranes off immediately after opening egg.

 

[Dhkoenig]

I have a flock of eight chickens. I have five brown layers (barred rock, wyandotte, barnevelder, marans, and salmon favorelle), two white layers (both polish), and one easter egger. The two polishes, the salmon favorelle, and the easter egger are all pullets who are just now starting to lay their first eggs. After only having brown eggs I was excited to mix some white and blue or green eggs into our egg basket. Our salmon favorelle was the first of the new girls to start laying, giving up some small, pullet-sized creme-colored eggs. Then this past weekend our easter egger started laying mint green eggs, which was very exciting. Neither polish has started laying yet. This morning I went to check our nesting boxes and... there was a light blue egg.

My understanding was that egg color doesn't change. If you have an Easter Egger laying blue eggs, she's always going to lay blue. If she's laying green, she'll always lay green. If it's creme, she'll only lay creme, etc.

So either one of my polish girls is laying a white egg with a blue-ish tint, or maybe this is a light green that looks blue?

It's always hard to capture color just right in a photo, but here are two shots of the blue and green eggs next to either other. In natural light the blue is a little less pronounced, but you can really see it in indirect light.

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Just curious - did anyone ever answer this? So curious!

 

[Magpie2]

My Ameraucana just started laying and we have something similar going on. We don’t know for sure if she’s a purebred Ameraucana, she could be a very convincing Easter Egger (she’s blue with a proper pink pea comb, reddish eyes and dark legs).

She’s only laid two eggs so far and they are slightly different colours. She’s the only bird with a blue egg gene that can lay (a couple young EE roosters and potentially a pullet Brahma mix who’s way too young).
I plan on comparing the inner shell soon but I need to have someone else eat them because I’m allergic

To what degree does the bloom effect the colour? Would you be able to wash it off if it is the bloom and not the brown pigment?

She layed the first one on the floor and it got pooped on, then managed to crack the second one in the nest box.

 

[Eeubank928]

I have a flock of eight chickens. I have five brown layers (barred rock, wyandotte, barnevelder, marans, and salmon favorelle), two white layers (both polish), and one easter egger. The two polishes, the salmon favorelle, and the easter egger are all pullets who are just now starting to lay their first eggs. After only having brown eggs I was excited to mix some white and blue or green eggs into our egg basket. Our salmon favorelle was the first of the new girls to start laying, giving up some small, pullet-sized creme-colored eggs. Then this past weekend our easter egger started laying mint green eggs, which was very exciting. Neither polish has started laying yet. This morning I went to check our nesting boxes and... there was a light blue egg.

My understanding was that egg color doesn't change. If you have an Easter Egger laying blue eggs, she's always going to lay blue. If she's laying green, she'll always lay green. If it's creme, she'll only lay creme, etc.

So either one of my polish girls is laying a white egg with a blue-ish tint, or maybe this is a light green that looks blue?

It's always hard to capture color just right in a photo, but here are two shots of the blue and green eggs next to either other. In natural light the blue is a little less pronounced, but you can really see it in indirect light.

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I just had the same thing happen! Mine colors are not nearly as vibrant as yours are. But the first one laid from my Easter egger was blue, and then 2 days later, a greenish hued one showed up. Was and still am fairly confused because I was under the same assumption about the egg color not changing. And all of my other hens should lay brown eggs.