how does this happen?

[haTHOR]

it's almost like a strange hen is coming in to lay!

i know that can't be true.

BUT.

my hens hadn't laid in MONTHS, until yesterday. i have four. two brown leghorns (distinct, medium, white/cream eggs); a gold laced wyandotte (large light brown egg, at least in the past); and a red sex link (who had never laid before despite coming to maturity in the height of summer, but from whom we expected a very large brown egg).

yesterday there were two leghorn eggs and a HUGE white egg. what in the world?

here is a pic of the GLW and the RSL. (yes, we noticed the GLW's feet bleeding today for the first time

and just treated all the chickens for scaly leg mites, if you wondered.)

and one from the back

here's the question...how could this happen? is she not a RSL? do they sometimes lay a white egg? i don't think the GLW could lay an egg this big or this color...

 

[silkiechicken]

I bet she has white egg layer genes in the mix... her legs are not the bright yellow that you'd expect a RSL who has never laid to be.

 

[haTHOR]

that would make so much sense. i bought her (Pearl) and her "sister" (Ruby) from a local chicken lady as red stars...but lo and behold Ruby turned out to be "Roo-be" if you get my drift. if they weren't "pure" RSL hybrids, there is more of a chance he wouldn't have had sex-link coloring at birth, right?

i am gonna take this thread over to the what's this breed, forum, i guess! seems i have more questions now!

 

[mstricer]

My wyandottes lay large cream to beige colored eggs

 

[haTHOR]

yeah, my glw lays a light brown. this was white, white, whiter than my leghorns'...no tint at all. like it came from the store!