Egg color?

[MommyGirl]

Do sapphire gems normally lay brown or cream eggs?

 

[NatJ]

This is the first 3 eggs my sapphire gem has laid. Is it normal for the eggs to have such a difference in color?

Brown eggs commonly vary a little from day to day, usually lighter when the hens' been laying longer and darker if it's the first egg or she took a day off. That would explain the first two.

When there's an extra-light one (like the third one), I usually find that the shell is thinner than normal--probably the hen just laid it a bit early, before it had time to get quite so much brown shell on the outside.

Do sapphire gems normally lay brown or cream eggs?

Usually brown, I think.

 

[MommyGirl]

Brown eggs commonly vary a little from day to day, usually lighter when the hens' been laying longer and darker if it's the first egg or she took a day off. That would explain the first two.

When there's an extra-light one (like the third one), I usually find that the shell is thinner than normal--probably the hen just laid it a bit early, before it had time to get quite so much brown shell on the outside.



Usually brown, I think.

Ok makes sense. Thanks