EE only laying green eggs?

[Member 151789]

my EE started laying eggs about 3 months ago and she has never layed a pink or blue egg. only green. she gives us eggs like 6 days of the week and is a very good layer.she is not a mix and is 100% EE. is that common for only one color?

thanks,
Caohorse

 

[rocknchickenfam]

on mypetchicken they stated that EE will lay one color. So if it lays green then that is the only color. Something to do with them being hybrids. So I guess if you had another one they may lay a different color. MPC said they then do not know what color you EE will lay. Hope this helps

 

[devora]

Yup. That is, for the most part, the color she'll give you. Sounds purty!

 

[Wishing4Wings]

An EE is a chicken that (hopefully) has the gene for blue eggs. Green eggs are produced toward the end of the laying process when a brown coat is added over the blue to make green. (If you check the inside of the green egg shell it will be blue.) Brown eggs are actually white shells with a brown coat. (Check inside to see white.)

Your EE has some brown layer ancestry to make the those green eggs and that is the color she will continue to make. I have heard of an older hen losing the "coating" process due to age or stress, which will result in the same hen laying two different colored eggs, but usually it's the same color for the life of the hen.

The hatcheries are claiming that EEs as a "breed" can lay different colored eggs, but you have to have different hens!

Love those EEs!

 

[Aschenfire]

Your hen is not going to pop out a rainbow of different colored eggs. Her genetics will work so that she will lay one color all her life, with slight variation in depth of color. My first pullet to start laying for me (about three weeks ago) is an EE who lays the prettiest mint green/turquoise eggs. She will never lay a pink or robins egg blue one, but that's ok... with my Marans laying dark dark brown and the EE laying mint green, my egg box looks like mint chocolate chip ice cream LOL!

 

[Member 151789]

Your hen is not going to pop out a rainbow of different colored eggs. Her genetics will work so that she will lay one color all her life, with slight variation in depth of color. My first pullet to start laying for me (about three weeks ago) is an EE who lays the prettiest mint green/turquoise eggs. She will never lay a pink or robins egg blue one, but that's ok... with my Marans laying dark dark brown and the EE laying mint green, my egg box looks like mint chocolate chip ice cream LOL!

haha funny. thank you for your advice

 

[Member 151789]

An EE is a chicken that (hopefully) has the gene for blue eggs. Green eggs are produced toward the end of the laying process when a brown coat is added over the blue to make green. (If you check the inside of the green egg shell it will be blue.) Brown eggs are actually white shells with a brown coat. (Check inside to see white.)

Your EE has some brown layer ancestry to make the those green eggs and that is the color she will continue to make. I have heard of an older hen losing the "coating" process due to age or stress, which will result in the same hen laying two different colored eggs, but usually it's the same color for the life of the hen.

The hatcheries are claiming that EEs as a "breed" can lay different colored eggs, but you have to have different hens!

Love those EEs!

thank you for telling me this. i had no idea haha

 

[Nicole01]

I have 2 EE's. One lays a blue egg, the other green.

I do believe the majority lay green eggs. That is why we bought them.

Our one lays a super jumbo size and she is just a year old.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

I have 2 EE's. One lays a blue egg, the other green.
I do believe the majority lay green eggs. That is why we bought them.

Our one lays a super jumbo size and she is just a year old.

Holy moly, that's a huge egg! Can the poor hen still walk?

 

[Member 151789]

I have 2 EE's. One lays a blue egg, the other green.
I do believe the majority lay green eggs. That is why we bought them.

Our one lays a super jumbo size and she is just a year old.

haha mine are about the same size only some are bigger, some are smaller. ya never know