From green to blue?

[Peeps61]

With that much of a shade difference, I think you have another hen laying. I will say that both my EE laid olive colored eggs as they began to lay and they lightened into the pretty blue eggs a few weeks after the hens started laying. Once in a while, I will still get one that has an olive cast to it, but most of the eggs are that pretty blue color. I haven't noticed that the eggs change color with temperature, though.

 

[roseyred]

Nope same hen lol. Idk if you saw the pic where one egg is literally half green as half blue as it changes tenperature

 

[aart]

There are only two base colors for egg shells...white and blue of varying intensity.

Brown and greens eggs are created by any overlay of a coating in varying shades of brown that goes on the egg last before laying. The inside of a green egg shell, under the white membrane, will be blue.

I have one green egg layer that sometimes lays a bluer egg, the intensity of the coating can change slightly from day to day and can lighten as the egg laying cycle progresses. The coating is usually darkest when a bird firsts starts laying, either initially or after a cessation of laying due to molt, brooding or other reason.

Not sure about how the color changes with heat/cold, never seen that happen here...but I like the description of a 'mood egg'!

I have 12 chickens but only two laying...a brown leghorn and 1 easter egger. Out of the 12 I own 3 easter egger the 1 that's laying and 2 that are 25 weeks old. My easter egger that is laying only started about 3 weeks ago and she has always laid an olive looking light green egg. The other day I thought both hens took a break and then I got a teal light blue egg. Is it possible another chicken started laying or could her egg color have changed? The blue egg was not in her normal laying spot but if it wasn't her then she hasn't laid in a few days. Today she keeps running in and out of the coop and I had my kids check and there was another blue egg and then a white one from my Brown leghorn. Another chicken could have gone in there without me seeing, but the only chickens I have seen in there at all today are my two original laying hens, but they both lay in the same spot every time. How do you guys keep up with whose laying what? I've read different stories. Yes they can change color because the brown coating goes on in the last minutes before they lay and the amount can very which determines how green and blue they are and then I've read they can't change colors. So confusing. Personally I don't care what color they lay Im just curious if I should be celebrating another one of my girls starting to laying or not.

Difficult if not impossible, unless you use trap nesting.
My older hens I can kinda tell some of them, after catching one just dropping an egg, but mostly not sure.
My pullets this year all lay distinctly different eggs, but again I had to catch them laying first to ID who laid what....and that took alot of time just hanging out in the coop shed and watching.

 

[roseyred]

Yeah I do that too watching them for hours. Getting videos of them laying is fun

 

[KNelly]

We'll I'm thinking it's the same chicken too. A little disappointing...only because I was really hoping one of the other girls had started. Oh well, two girls laying is better than no girls laying.

 

[WthrLady]

Before I had my own chickens, I bought eggs from a lady up the road. she had brown laying red sex linked chickens. The brown eggs were always two tone out of the cartons. The part touching the cartons was several shades lighter than the rest of the egg.