Egg with No Red Comb?

[SJsChickies]

I searched the forums and couldn’t find the answer to my question…
I have a new layer. She’s laid 4 eggs her first 8 days. All in the laying boxes. They have all been small, to be expected, but the last 2 have been a little bigger and hard beautiful shells. She seems to lay very late morning to late afternoon. She’s in the run with 2 seasoned layers and 3 other pullets, the same age as her (17.5 weeks.) The other pullets have barely any wattles and combs are still pinkish (though one’s is kind of black so I can’t really tell the true color.) Well this morning, about 630am, I went out there to clean the coop and there was a small, thin shelled egg on the floor of the coop. My question is…is it more likely that my new layer did that or that one of the girls who doesn’t really LOOK mature enough did? I’m including a pic of the last 2 pretty little eggs and the one I found today. As well as the faces of the 3 other pullets.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Based on size and color that egg is probably from another pullet. It is possible that the same pullet laid it but highly unlikely.

There are different signs that a pullet may be laying an egg or about to be laying an egg. May be, not absolutely are. Red combs and wattles are a sign that they might be. Squatting is a sign they might be. Hanging out in the nests is a sign that they might be. The presence of those signs does not mean that they definitely are. The absence of those signs does not mean they are not.

Another sign might interest you. If you look at the vent of the pullet that is definitely laying and the others you will notice a difference. The one laying should have a pink, soft, moist vent. A hen not laying should have a dry tight vent. If one of those three has a soft pink moist vent it is a sign she is laying or is probably within a week or two of laying. A sign, not an absolute, but a really good sign.

So now you are ready to rush out and violate the privacy of those pullets' privates. Don't feel bad about that, many of us do that a lot and I do not consider it being a pervert. It's looking for signs. It can be a good timed to check for mite eggs too, they like to lay eggs in that area.

Good luck and congratulations on your chicken eggs.

 

[SJsChickies]

Based on size and color that egg is probably from another pullet. It is possible that the same pullet laid it but highly unlikely.

There are different signs that a pullet may be laying an egg or about to be laying an egg. May be, not absolutely are. Red combs and wattles are a sign that they might be. Squatting is a sign they might be. Hanging out in the nests is a sign that they might be. The presence of those signs does not mean that they definitely are. The absence of those signs does not mean they are not.

Another sign might interest you. If you look at the vent of the pullet that is definitely laying and the others you will notice a difference. The one laying should have a pink, soft, moist vent. A hen not laying should have a dry tight vent. If one of those three has a soft pink moist vent it is a sign she is laying or is probably within a week or two of laying. A sign, not an absolute, but a really good sign.

So now you are ready to rush out and violate the privacy of those pullets' privates. Don't feel bad about that, many of us do that a lot and I do not consider it being a pervert. It's looking for signs. It can be a good timed to check for mite eggs too, they like to lay eggs in that area.

Good luck and congratulations on your chicken eggs.

Thank you so much for all that great info! I was THINKING it was from another pullet but no one was red so I was confused and didn’t want to get my hopes up. Aside from these other 3 pullets, I have 4 others (2.5-3 months and 5 weeks old) and 3 more day olds coming next week so now I have a much better idea of what to look for! When my senior girls started laying 2 years ago I never paid attention to signs; I just opened the laying box one day and there was an egg lol.

 

[SJsChickies]

Based on size and color that egg is probably from another pullet. It is possible that the same pullet laid it but highly unlikely.

Also, based on the cream/tan color, it’s from my sapphire gem, not the cream legbars, right?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Not sure where you are located. Cream Legbars are recognized in the UK but not the USA. You can get a lot of mixed info if you look up Sapphire Gems. But, yes, a true Cream Legbar should lay a blue or green egg, a Sapphire Gem a brownish egg.