Matching the chicken to the egg

[Maka]

Hey guys!!

My girls started laying and this is the first year for some!!

I purchased a couple olive eggers last year. And I think one ended up laying blue eggs.

I heard somewhere that the earlobes of your chicken can help dictate what color egg they lay (is this true?)

Here is the color of the egg and the chicken I think might be laying it. Can anyone confirm?

 

[Maka]

I just wanted to find out who was laying the blue eggs in my flock was all. As far as I knew I wasn’t supposed to have any. This particular chick was in an olive egger / speckled Sussex mix.

 

[Maka]

And she obviously looks like a barred Plymouth Rock mix. Idk where she got the hairdo. but I sure love it.

 

[LaFleche]

I heard somewhere that the earlobes of your chicken can help dictate what color egg they lay (is this true?)

This is not true, especially not with mixes

 

[LaFleche]

And she obviously looks like a barred Plymouth Rock mix. Idk where she got the hairdo. but I sure love it.

She looks like Crested Legbar x Plymouth Rock mix to me which would also explain the lighter egg colour.

 

[Maka]

She looks like Crested Legbar x Plymouth Rock mix to me which would also explain the lighter egg colour.

So the blue ish egg is most likely hers?

 

[LaFleche]

So the blue ish egg is most likely hers?

How do your other hens look?

 

[Maka]

How do your other hens look?

One is a speckled Sussex,
The other is an Easter egger (Amerucana mix)
And two maran hens.
Oh and one seabright but she lays tiny cream eggs lol.

 

[Chey1214]

That hair points to a legbar which would explain the blue egg

 

[LaFleche]

One is a speckled Sussex,
The other is an Easter egger (Amerucana mix)
And two maran hens.
Oh and one seabright but she lays tiny cream eggs lol.

The only other one that might come into question would be the Easter Egger.

Speckled Sussex lay light brown/cream eggs and Marans brown.