Is this egg normal?

MandyMusshafen

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This is a pic of my green egg! This is the 3rd one we've gotten this week, and I'm assuming it came from one of my BYM girls.
My question is about the splotchy "dirty" coloring of it in some places. Is that normal? Is it safe to eat? Do I need to add anything to their diet? Or is this just a new layer figuring things out? The last 2 pics are the 1st 2 green eggs we got! The more olive colored one came 1st, and the 2nd and 3rd were more minty colored.
 

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New layers always have slightly unusual eggs. As she gets older, the egg cycling through her body will be normalized with age.

Keep the nestbox clean at all times. The bloom from a newly laid egg is like a thin film of glue. It attracts what ever is in the nestbox.
That might explain the "dirty" look! She didn't lay it in the nest box! She dropped it on the floor of the coop surrounded by poop! We are (literally tonight) moving everyone into a new coop so I haven't bothered to try to get her to lay in the boxes yet! The setup isn't great bc the nest boxes are tight with very little air flow so it gets HOT in them and they don't like it! I'm hoping the new set up will make then happy!
 

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