Yes, yes, and yes.
ISA Browns, Cinnamon Queens, etc are all similar, but slightly different 'mixing' for breeds to get high production girls. They are all a mix of 2 fairly high production breeds PLUS the added of hybrid vigor. ...by the mixing of 2 dif. breeds
They do tend to lay large eggs. Nearly all are large to extra large. I have one girl now who is 2 who lays roughly 3 out of every 4 eggs larger than my duck eggs and those large ones are double yolkers. I cringe each time a I see one. (Barely fit into a Jumbo carton size. If (as they are sometimes) they are slightly elongated, can not close the jumbo carton without breaking them.)
And, yes, they tend to be medium to dark brown. Clearly no where near as dark as a true copper marans egg, but most definitely a deeper brown. Mine tend to lay colors of brown that vary between the super large egg in the picture up to the color of the front right egg...anywhere in that range.
FYI: The few I have [all, at one point or another, gotten as a 'take them all' chickens for cheap (cheep?
) Money at TSC because they were starting to fly and setting off the alarm at night.] Some would have one or two small-ish eggs (i.e. medium size...like that of a typical heritage BR egg), then large to extra large thereon. They start earlier than my traditional 'production BRs'...way earlier than my heritage BRs...so 16-18 weeks is about right. AND that could easily be her second egg...and you mistook the first for someone else's, or it was a shell-less and eaten - also common for first egg.My 2 cents. I have only ever had a few (3-4) chicks each of the previous 2 years...with I think 8 last year. Others may have had a different experience...but they do worry me regarding the size of eggs.
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(I know she isn't a DC girl, but the colouring...
