Egg Pictures, Few Questions about Color, and a Surprise

[MrsAuberry00]

I'm going to have to have a few days off and some air conditioning in order to sit and discover WHO is laying WHAT egg! I don't know why it matters to me so much, but I just NEED to be able to look at an egg and have an idea which hen it came from. I can do it with my two-year-old girls...I know their eggs, but the new layers are proving problematic. Should two hens of the same breed lay the same colored eggs? I'm going to totally lose what's left of my mind. Does anyone else feel the same?
Here are the pictures and the surprise part:

 

[nikkers390]

Egg color from a single chicken can vary. They may start out dark and lighten as the season progresses. White eggs will be white, brown eggs may become beige in due time, blue/green eggs may fade a bit. Some ducks lay a black egg at the start of a laying season, but eventually the eggs lose color to be white at the end of laying season. If you really must follow the progression, mark the cloaca of every chicken with a different oil based food color. You can then match the color left on the egg with the same color applied to the chicken. Hope that helps.

 

[MrsAuberry00]

Egg color from a single chicken can vary. They may start out dark and lighten as the season progresses. White eggs will be white, brown eggs may become beige in due time, blue/green eggs may fade a bit. Some ducks lay a black egg at the start of a laying season, but eventually the eggs lose color to be white at the end of laying season. If you really must follow the progression, mark the cloaca of every chicken with a different oil based food color. You can then match the color left on the egg with the same color applied to the chicken. Hope that helps.

I told my husband about coloring the girls' bums and I thought he was going to choke on his tongue.

 

[nikkers390]

I only know the breed that lay a certain color: Sulmtaler- tinted, Marans -dark, Ameraucana-blue, EE- blue/green. Most others are different shades of brown to tan. I have no idea which individual lays which egg. They all taste good

 

[misskes]

I'm glad I'm not the only person obsessed with things like this LOL. I specifically picked chickens of different breeds so I could tell them and their eggs apart. I do have 2 Wyandottes of different colors so I'm already anxious about their eggs haha. Only one of my girls has started laying so every day I do the "squat test" with the rest of them so I'll already know when they lay who laid it lol.

 

[aart]

With time you'll probably see 5 distinct shapes.
Shape is more consistant than color,
double yolkers can skew shape comparison.
I'm guessing the far right 'who knows' matches yesterdays 'Sybils?' tho.
But you'll still have to stalk the nests to match egg shapes with birds.

Pretty easy with less than 6 birds and the excitement of first chickens,
if you've got the time.
I was obsessed with matching eggs with birds my first hatch of 6 pullets,
but it was easy because each laid different colors.
Still, it took a lot of time sitting in the coop to grab eggs immediately to ID bird.

Next year had more new layers(10) and was less inclined to sit in coop for hours,
tho did take the time to ID my few OE crosses.
This year have fewer new layers(7), distinctly different breeds, and only one OE cross.
I'll spend more time deciding who has to go before winter.

 

[andreanar]

I literally sat and watched for a whole day to see who layed what, haha.

 

[MrsAuberry00]

Sybil laid another large egg today, but I haven't opened it yet to see if it's another double yolk.

 

[MrsAuberry00]

I guess I'll plan on sitting out there all weekend to see who lays what.

 

[aart]

I literally sat and watched for a whole day to see who layed what, haha.

That's about what it takes......could take several all dayers before you catch them all.