Eggs have changed to real pale color

[fordmommy]

I was wondering why exactly my girls' egg color has gone so pale all of a sudden.

On Thurday we had a dog masacre in our coop and everyone is still kinda frazzled. I know I am. But could that be the reason behide the pale eggs????My RSL is the most noticable. I went from a real light brown to almost white.

And what exactly makes the color lighter? And will get go back to being the shades they were? And if so when?


I should also say that I have not changed they diet or anything else. The only change is half the flock is missing.

 

[wildorchid053]

sometimes mine lay a very light brown egg.. i found if you rinse it, it was just alot of bloom on it.. almost turns it into a pink egg.

 

[Mahonri]

Coming to the end of their laying cycle. They get pale.

 

[fordmommy]

I wash my eggs so I know it's not that.

 

[gritsar]

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I agree. You've seen the eggs I got today right? That's about as light as mine go. They'll start over with a new cycle and they'll go back to dark brown.

 

[fordmommy]

Thanks everyone. I was beginning to think it was the stress.

 

[sommrluv]

From one chicken that was laying dark brown eggs (Barred Rock) she starting laying thin shelled, white eggs, and now they are thick shelled, whiteish light brown eggs. I first suspected a new layer, but I've caught her now several times.

She's been doing it for nearly a month, so I don't think it's the end of her cycle. She's also young, and just started laying in Nov. Her eggs look like a pregnant gal's tummy...they have a bump! LOL