Eggs Changing Color

[jazzguitar]

Hi, we have four Rhode Island Reds, one of the chickens (known here as the 'mean' chicken) has begun laying eggs that are not the usually brown but are like a beige color now... that has happened over the last month or so... is she not getting the right nutrients? Ideas? Thanks!

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Egg color does lighten up as the season pregresses. As long as you are feeding a good ration and have a separate bowl of oyster shells out than there's not much more you can do.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

Hi, we have four Rhode Island Reds... (known here as the 'mean' chicken) has begun laying eggs that are not the usually brown but are like a beige color now... that has happened over the last month or so...

Time and the start of a new egg laying season will improve the color of your "Mean" RIRs' egg shell color to whatever degree eggshell color has on egg quality. Which as far as I can find is Zero, Nada. oldhenlikesdogs is on the money. In other words your hens are running out or running low on the minerals needed to coat the eggshells. Only time will replenish these minerals regardless of what some huckster tries to tell you.

 

[chicken4prez]

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[Patinas]

I have 3 EE's that lay olive colored eggs but....one day there was a blue egg! They have yet to lay another blue one but it was a very pretty egg! I have no explanation for why a blue one appeared. No change in their diet so it must be something internal. Wish I knew why because would be nice to get more blue ones.

 

[MartinsPoultry]

I have two EEs that do the same, found out they are gen 2 EE. Which is a Olive Egger crossed with something else.

 

[sourland]

As others have stated, egg color tends to lighten as a hen's laying cycle progresses. Eventually they take a break from laying, 'replenish their resources', and resume laying darker shelled eggs. It's perfectly normal.

 

[aart]

I have 3 EE's that lay olive colored eggs but....one day there was a blue egg! They have yet to lay another blue one but it was a very pretty egg! I have no explanation for why a blue one appeared. No change in their diet so it must be something internal. Wish I knew why because would be nice to get more blue ones.

Olive or green eggs are blue shells covered with brown coating.
Sometimes the coating is lighter or absent,
thus you see the blue shell untinted with brown coating.