Is this normal egg color variation?

[BGcoop]

I THINK I only have one marans chicken but I get both the plain dark eggs and the speckled dark eggs-not on the same day. Is it normal for the same bird to fluctuate day to day on this much speckling?

 

[Mrs. K]

Yes, kind of sort of. Normal as in that is what happened, and there is really nothing humans can do about it. As in it does not cause the bird a health issue. Sometime there are little misfunctions in egg color. Sometimes it will change, some birds will occasionally create spotted eggs, some never, some once in a while.

I would expect a BCM to have a much darker brown egg than either of those - but it might be the light.

With egg color - I think you get what you get!

Mrs K

 

[BGcoop]

Yes, kind of sort of. Normal as in that is what happened, and there is really nothing humans can do about it. As in it does not cause the bird a health issue. Sometime there are little misfunctions in egg color. Sometimes it will change, some birds will occasionally create spotted eggs, some never, some once in a while.

I would expect a BCM to have a much darker brown egg than either of those - but it might be the light.

With egg color - I think you get what you get!

Mrs K

I believe she is a wheaten marans. Her eggs are several shades darker than my regular brown eggs, but by no means the deep deep chocolate eggs some people seem to have.