JesWith3
Songster
- Jul 25, 2022
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If you're familiar with Honey the SGE hen and Kitty the Ameraucana Splash "roo", you know my dilemma. It's been crazy with Kitty...back and forth between hen and roo and then SETTLING on roo for certain and now this! Guys, I have two chickens...Honey and Kitty. That's it. Honey has laid a medium-ish olive green egg from day one (smaller in the beginning, of course) sometimes with freckles, sometimes without.
One day, we found an egg minus the olive color. I thought "oh wow, she ran out of ink for the day"...like, a lot of ink. Oh, well, whatever; stranger things have happened ((shrug)). But that brings me to this question, can an egg lose it's color AND grow in size just to return to the normal color and normal smaller size the next day??. The only other birds in the same environment are a flock of Muskovy ducks, the eldest of which is only 4 months old (hatched in June) and shouldn't be ready to lay until this coming Spring. Also, it can't be a duck egg, because the yolks of both eggs are the same size and duck egg yolks take up much more space in the egg than a chicken egg. WHAT is going on?? Kitty LOOKS like a roo, but still doesn't act like one. No crowing, still throws a beautiful egg song, no mating behavior. But people say feathers don't lie (and Kitty's feathers certainly look roo). So WHO is laying this bigger, pale blue egg??? I'm...STUMPED! P.S. Both eggs are blue on the inside, another reason this is not a Muskovy egg.
One day, we found an egg minus the olive color. I thought "oh wow, she ran out of ink for the day"...like, a lot of ink. Oh, well, whatever; stranger things have happened ((shrug)). But that brings me to this question, can an egg lose it's color AND grow in size just to return to the normal color and normal smaller size the next day??. The only other birds in the same environment are a flock of Muskovy ducks, the eldest of which is only 4 months old (hatched in June) and shouldn't be ready to lay until this coming Spring. Also, it can't be a duck egg, because the yolks of both eggs are the same size and duck egg yolks take up much more space in the egg than a chicken egg. WHAT is going on?? Kitty LOOKS like a roo, but still doesn't act like one. No crowing, still throws a beautiful egg song, no mating behavior. But people say feathers don't lie (and Kitty's feathers certainly look roo). So WHO is laying this bigger, pale blue egg??? I'm...STUMPED! P.S. Both eggs are blue on the inside, another reason this is not a Muskovy egg.
