EE laying brown egg-is this right?

[Muscovies]

I agree they can lay any color of egg

 

[ryanhodapp]

I was disappointed too when my first EE laid a VERy light blue egg, almost white. Now that she has been laying for about a month, the egg is more olive. Interesting that her name is blue and she lays the olive egg.
Henna my other EE, lays the bluish-greenish egg.

they have been great layers, out doing my
RIR and BSL.

I agree, just get more!! you might want to check out a breeder to make sure you get what you really want.

 

[Chickenkate17]

Here's Amelia...not laying yet, but I'm hoping for a colored egg!

 

[Illia]

Technically speaking, Easter Eggers do NOT lay "any color of egg" - That would make any mutt out there an Easter Egger.

But, if your EE comes from hatchery stock, or is one generation away from it, and lays a brown egg, I'd still consider her an EE. Especially if she still carries the common traits. (pea comb, muffs/beard, green or yellow legs, and either BBR based or white based coloration)

My first Easter Egger from a hatchery sadly laid light brown eggs for me. . . But I still call her an EE because she came from the same stock other EE's come from, and she looks exactly like your typical Easter Egger hen.

 

[Judy]

My 3 EE's look much like these pics. I get two nice blue eggs and one light tan egg from them. I suppose the tan one has a slight pinkish tint to it. About what I expected. I remember that the sign at the feed store made it clear that not all EE chicks would grow up to lay blue or green eggs. Gotta give them that, especially as they called them Ameraucanas (because that's what the hatchery called them.)

 

[catterbug]

I have 2 EE's. For the longest time I thought I had one that laid a green egg and the other laid a brown egg because I never got 2 green eggs in one day. Well after a month or so I disappointment, I got 2 green eggs on the same day!!!! So one was either a late bloomer or it just worked out that they never had laid on the same day. Hopefully your's is a late bloomer. My EE's look just like your's.

 

[BlacksheepCardigans]

I really don't think they're "pink" eggs. I think they're the shade of brown that, when added to the blue egg gene, gives you the typical greenish EE shade. There aren't white, brown, pink, blue, green, and olive egg genes. There are white, brown (with the amount of brown laid down giving you the shade), and blue. Blue + those varying shades of brown gives you the green or olive eggs. Remove the blue and you're back to your various shades of brown.

The blue egg gene is very, very closely linked to the pea comb gene. They're almost always inherited together. That's why when you get a single-combed offspring of an EE or an Ameraucana it almost always lays brown. But, a very small percent of the time, the pea comb is inherited and the blue egg gene doesn't come along with it, so you get a visual EE without the egg color.

I agree that we can't just call any mutt, or any mutt with partridge/wild coloring, an EE. They're a very specific type of bird with a predictable body type, comb, muff/beard, and egg color. Every other breed has a visual standard - i.e., a Leghorn born with a walnut comb wouldn't be a Leghorn anymore, or a BCM that consistently lays an under-4 egg isn't a BCM anymore - so I think once it stops looking or laying like an EE we can stop calling it an EE.