EE egg color fading

[Fairy Foul]

Howdy All! I'm new here and primarily joined to seek an answer to our question. Our senior EE, Morgan, used to lay beautiful green eggs. Not Olive, just green. She is now 2 years old and still laying away, but her eggs are basically off white now and not very green at all. Has anyone else experienced this loss of pigment in their EE? I have 2 more up and coming, hopefully they will begin to lay in late July and 2 more who won't lay until September, is my guess.
Morgan is one of the 3 remaining original birds in our flock.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Generally speaking, egg color will degrade as each laying cycle progresses, so what you are seeing is not abnormal. This is generally most noticable in very dark brown layers and colorful layers and is individual to the hen as far as how much loss is noted how quickly. When they return to laying after molts color is often restored or at least improved for a time before it begins to degrade again

 

[Fairy Foul]

Age does seem to a logical conclusion. The girls began to molt last fall, right about the time we added 4 young upstarts to the yard, and then all egg laying ceased until thanksgiving, and the molt didn't go full on.
This spring we added new hens when they were about 8 weeks old. The older birds weren't particularly bothered, and we had no egg interruption. Just the loss of color with Morgan.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I've noticed that occasionally I get a somewhat funky color or shaped egg so much so I'm not sure who it comes from. I have 2 EEs and 6 brown layers, various breeds, and 1 EE lays a medium to large olive green egg and the other EE lays usually Jumbo/XL or occasionally large blue eggs. One time I got one that was almost greyish and had weird lines/color ring on it.. and I've gotten a few that are a similar shape and size to the green laying EE but blue or grey/whitish. So I guess i have a similar problem and don't really know what's going on but now I guess I do. Hers do seem blue outside though still but inside in the lighting they sometimes seem whiteish.

 

[Pork Pie]

Hi and welcome to BYC - you have some great advice already so I'll just say hello!


All the best

CT

 

[drumstick diva]