I. AM. SERIOUSLY. STUMPED (two different eggs, one hen??)!

[JesWith3]

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.

 

[Fluffy_Butt_Hutt]

Show a picture of your suspected roo, please!

 

[JesWith3]

Show a picture of your suspected roo, please!

Thread 'What Have I Got??'

Sep 15, 2025

'Kitty' (because he/she follows you around until you pick him/her up and snuggle) is hatched from an egg sold as pure Ameraucana hatching eggs (blue/black/splash) on March 28th this year. Kitty is THE most confusing chicken I've ever encountered. Single (albeit short) comb that just started getting redder. No waddles to note. Thinner legs. Does the egg song (no egg yet) and no crowing. All of these points to pullet, but those tail, saddle feathers, and hackle feathers...and the wheaten coloring coming out on the wings!! WHAT is going on? Is Kitty a hermaphrodite??? The cuddliest thing...

• JesWith3
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• Forum: What Breed Or Gender is This?

 

[JesWith3]

Show a picture of your suspected roo, please!

 

[Fluffy_Butt_Hutt]

It is possible if your hen is an EE. You cracked open one egg, are the insides of both eggs the same color of light blue?

 

[JesWith3]

It is possible if your hen is an EE. You cracked open one egg, are the insides of both eggs the same color of light blue?

Honey is a Starlight Green Egger (so technically an EE), Kitty is a pure Ameraucana (supposed roo). This mystery egg is bigger (taller AND girthier), softer more fragile shell. Today, we got the usual olive green, hard-shelled, normal-sized (smaller than the mystery ) egg from Honey. I'm at a loss.

 

[JesWith3]

It is possible if your hen is an EE. You cracked open one egg, are the insides of both eggs the same color of light blue?

P.S. Yes, both eggs are blue inside.

 

[Fluffy_Butt_Hutt]

Honey is a Starlight Green Egger (so technically an EE), Kitty is a pure Ameraucana (supposed roo). This mystery egg is bigger (taller AND girthier), softer more fragile shell. Today, we got the usual olive green, hard-shelled, normal-sized (smaller than the mystery ) egg from Honey. I'm at a loss.

I'd say because she is a pullet the egg can have an error of not having the brown over the blue. The brown added over the blue creates the olive color. This seems especially possible because the egg shell was soft/thin and possibly exited her track before the shell was entirely done. There are some threads on this site that say the same thing about olive laying EEs (that's what I'm rephrasing from right now).

 

[Ridgerunner]

Thanks for the photo. With those hackle feathers that is a male. No eggs from him.

I'd say because she is a pullet the egg can have an error of not having the brown over the blue. The brown added over the blue creates the olive color. This seems especially possible because the egg shell was soft/thin and possibly exited her track before the shell was entirely done. There are some threads on this site that say the same thing about olive laying EEs (that's what I'm rephrasing from right now).

I totally agree. The brown is typically laid on the egg during the last half hour before the egg is laid. For whatever reason, that egg was probably laid a little early. When you deal with living animals, stuff happens.