Egg Colors?! My girls are have started to lay, getting off white/pinkish eggs from a Barred Rock?

[kloverdarling]

I have 12 girls. They just started to lay. I was out of town for a few days and am not 100% sure when exactly. So roughly about a week or so now.

4- Easter Eggers
5- Barred Rocks
3- Black Jersey Giants

So far I've gotten some beautiful green-blues from my EEs
And a few shades of brown-tinted from some of my Rocks
Pretty sure the Giants are not laying yet but I'm not 100% sure.

The other day I got an off white-ish colored egg from one of my Rocks
Today I got a light pinkish color from one of my Rocks

Wondering if that is normal of Rocks?

Here is a photo of the eggs I have so far. I left some in the new nesting boxes since they started before I got them installed and have been laying all over the coop.



Nesting boxes installed and Flower is checking them out.

 

[GitaBooks]

Lovely eggs! And awesome coop!


Are you sure it isn't one of your Easter Eggers laying that color? I don't get very many dark brown eggs from any of my "brown egg layers" they are all more of a tan, even a light tan with a reddish tint to some of them.

 

[kloverdarling]

I am positive its one of my Rocks. I put an egg in a few of the boxes so they would know to lay there and not under the roost bars up top. She started to act like she wanted to lay so I put her in one of the boxes with an egg. She got comfortable and laid in the box, her egg is blush/pinkish... this egg is a great deal lighter than from the other Rocks so far. I am going to have to pin point which girl she is because a couple of them look so darn close to each other I'm not sure which Rock girl is giving the pinkish eggs.

 

[aart]

The brown coating of the egg can vary a bit from day to day in the same bird, especially at onset of lay.
And can vary from bird to bird, some 'brown' eggs can have a pinkish tinge.

 

[kloverdarling]

I started reading some of the other threads on here about it. Some people were even talking about purplish eggs. I find this to be really interesting for sure. My girls are 22 weeks today and have been laying for about a week I guess. I imagine it will take some time before they are consistant at laying?

 

[aart]

I started reading some of the other threads on here about it. Some people were even talking about purplish eggs. I find this to be really interesting for sure. My girls are 22 weeks today and have been laying for about a week I guess. I imagine it will take some time before they are consistant at laying?

Yep, can take up to a month or so for things to get 'normal'.

 

[kloverdarling]

And from what I've been reading I'm understanding that the shade of color will vary from day to day, bird to bird...

Does the color of egg ever stay the same? Does the color become more consistent as they get older?

One day, one of my EE girls laid a darker green egg and today her egg was more of a mint green color...