Egg Color and Hatch Success

[KellyMP]

So, I just hatched my first set of eggs from my incubator. Out of the 11 eggs, only 4 hatched. Three were from the same hen that lays darker brown eggs, her eggs hatched at an 100% success rate. One egg hatched from my hen that occasionally lays brown to a creamier pink color. The egg that hatched from her was a darker brown. None of my blue eggs nor the lighter brown eggs hatched. They candled well early on but didn’t seem to make it throughout the process. I just find it interesting the lighter eggs didn’t survive. Has anyone experienced this? Any thoughts on correlation or purely coincidence? (The hens are all the same age, two are Easter eggers, and one a speckled Sussex).

 

[talkinboutchickens]

My thoughts are that each rooster favors a certain hen or a few certain hens, so he is likely mating with the darker brown laying hen the most. I am not sure of the other reasons why this could be happening.