Egg colour

[Chezzy]

Will a hen lay the same colour egg most of the time,
I only have two hens, lavender and Winnie,
One lays a pale colour egg and the one that has just started laying ,has laid a lovely brown speckled egg.
What's your experiences?

 

[Mountain Peeps]

Pullets who just start laying usually don't have a full colored egg. After a month the eggs should be the color they are going to lay the rest of their life.

 

[Chezzy]

Thank you

 

[aart]

I don't think I've ever read the 'it takes a month before a full colored egg' thing before??

I know that the eggs a hen lays will stay pretty much the same color from the first 3-6 eggs on thru her life but can vary in a bit, in shade of color and/or pattern of speckles, every day or every so often.

They also can get progressively lighter as the egg cycle stretches out (especially very dark egg layers) before they take a break to molt, when the next egg cycle starts up the eggs will be at their darkest again lightening until the end of the cycle.

 

[Mountain Peeps]

I don't think I've ever read the 'it takes a month before a full colored egg' thing before??

I know that the eggs a hen lays will stay pretty much the same color from the first 3-6 eggs on thru her life but can vary in a bit, in shade of color and/or pattern of speckles, every day or every so often.

They also can get progressively lighter as the egg cycle stretches out (especially very dark egg layers) before they take a break to molt, when the next egg cycle starts up the eggs will be at their darkest again lightening until the end of the cycle.

I always say it takes about a month for a hen to be producing regular shaped, colored and formed eggs. Sometimes it takes a lot less time. That's just my rule of thumb.