It's Not My Maran...Confused!

[alicefelldown]

Even accounting for the flash and washed out white balance in the egg pictures, that's still waaaay too light to be a marans (always with an s at the end) egg. Do you think you could adjust your camera and take another picture with a non-egg item for color reference? (can of soup or something?)

 

[Mountain Sunshine]

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I can do that!

 

[Mountain Sunshine]

it still doesn't show how dark the egg is. I can't figure out to fix the lighting on the phone. ( I'm not tech savy) And it washes out the other egg in the other picture. Its really a pink color! In the picture it looks white, and its not!

the egg on the bottom on the usual egg that the BO lays. It is a light pink and it's smaller.

 

[greathorse]

I can only go from the picture but the darker egg appears almost exactly the same color as my Orp, nowhere close to the color of my Cuckoo marans and I dont consider my Cuckoo's to be dark layers. They are typical hatchery Marans that lay a bit darker than the other brown egg layers.

I think both of those could easily come from the same hen

 

[Mountain Sunshine]

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I was thinking that it did! I just wanted to know how it the color changes so dramatically. Is it the feed?

 

[alicefelldown]

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Pullet eggs are always smaller than normal eggs. It would be highly improbable to have a first timer laying bigger eggs than all your other established hens, regardless of color change.

Thank you for posting the picture with the soup can. It's helpful to put the color of the egg in perspective. Since the red in the can of soup is pretty spot-on with the red on my cans of soup, I can only assume that the egg itself is not nearly dark enough to be a marans. It sucks, but she will lay eventually!! You want her to be a slow layer, as the egg travels through her body the dark coloring is applied, ergo, the more time it takes, the darker it will be.

Here is my marans (not cuckoo, nor hatchery) first egg. It's hard to see, but it's a paler brown (still darker than any other egg I've got) covered in very dark brown specks. A week later, her eggs are more evenly colored in the characteristic dark brown of the marans breed.

This picture is her first (left) and her third (right) egg. The lighting sucked (late afternoon, almost sunset) when I took this picture, but I was trying to get a comparison shot of the speckles.

 

[Mountain Sunshine]

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Pullet eggs are always smaller than normal eggs. It would be highly improbable to have a first timer laying bigger eggs than all your other established hens, regardless of color change.

Thank you for posting the picture with the soup can. It's helpful to put the color of the egg in perspective. Since the red in the can of soup is pretty spot-on with the red on my cans of soup, I can only assume that the egg itself is not nearly dark enough to be a marans. It sucks, but she will lay eventually!! You want her to be a slow layer, as the egg travels through her body the dark coloring is applied, ergo, the more time it takes, the darker it will be.

Here is my marans (not cuckoo, nor hatchery) first egg. It's hard to see, but it's a paler brown (still darker than any other egg I've got) covered in very dark brown specks. A week later, her eggs are more evenly colored in the characteristic dark brown of the marans breed.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/14631_011.jpg

This picture is her first (left) and her third (right) egg. The lighting sucked (late afternoon, almost sunset) when I took this picture, but I was trying to get a comparison shot of the speckles.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/14631_013.jpg

Thank you so much for posting those pictures. After seeing those, I am sure that the eggs are not from her(the marans) but from the BO. I guess her eggs are just changing in color and size a bit which is fine by me!