Hen lays blue eggs, suddenly lays grey eggs?

[Chubbicthe2nd]

Is this normal or is something wrong with her diet? She just started laying 2 weeks ago. We got 3 brilliant blue eggs last week, and now 3 grey ones.. .

 

[McChooky]

Never heard of a blue egg layer laying gray eggs but googled it to see why the egg shell color would change in an egg. Some of the reasons are diet,stress and poisoning which is very disturbing.I hope she is ok and its nothing but stress. If in fact she is the hen that laid the blue eggs she could be a legbar mix(Easter egger)

 

[aart]

Is this normal or is something wrong with her diet? She just started laying 2 weeks ago. We got 3 brilliant blue eggs last week, and now 3 grey ones.. .

Please show pics of both blue and gray eggs....
...and a pics of the bird in question.
Wondering if you may have a olive egger cross and the colored coating has just begun.

 

[Chubbicthe2nd]

Here are the pictures of the blue eggs, and now the gray ones. As you can see the blue ones were blue all the way through, when you crack them open even the inside of the shell & membrane was completely blue.

The gray eggs are like the brown ones, when you crack them open the membrane inside is white.

So I was thinking it couldn't be a bloom thing. Very confused.

I will say that our hands just started laying, they're only 6 months old. Is it possible that a hen would lay blue eggs for it's first fertile week, and then a abruptly switch to gray?

 

[aart]

Is it possible that a hen would lay blue eggs for it's first fertile week, and then a abruptly switch to gray?

Not likely, the gray egg came from a different bird.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Is this normal or is something wrong with her diet? She just started laying 2 weeks ago. We got 3 brilliant blue eggs last week, and now 3 grey ones.. .

Grey is caused by extra heavy Bloom.

 

[Chubbicthe2nd]

Grey is caused by extra heavy Bloom.

How would having an extra heavy bloom make the inside white instead of blue? Or do you mean it's an extra heavy Bloom of a brown egg?

 

[Chubbicthe2nd]

Not likely, the gray egg came from a different bird.

That's what I initially thought, but we only have four hens, and as you can see we have exactly four different types of eggs. Also those four eggs in the carton picture we're all collected on the same day.

It seemed unlikely that The Blue Egg layer suddenly stopped laying eggs for a week, and then another hen is working double time this week.

Unfortunately I have no idea who's laying what. None of our hens are purebreds so I have no idea how to place them. One of them looks like a light sussex, one looks like a light Sussex with a brown body, and the other two look like mixes with a lot of dark Cornish, one with light yellow legs and one with gray legs.

We consistently get little brown eggs with a pinkish hue, neutral brown eggs with freckles, large super pale brown eggs that look almost white... And then these blue eggs that then switch to Gray eggs.

 

[MysteryChicken]

How would having an extra heavy bloom make the inside white instead of blue? Or do you mean it's an extra heavy Bloom of a brown egg?

Pictures of the inside?

I was talking about the grey outside.

 

[Chubbicthe2nd]

Pictures of the inside?

I was talking about the grey outside.

Here are pics of these Blue Egg on the inside and the gray egg on the inside