My chicken laid a white egg

[Delta2 23]

Normally she lays nice brown ones with speckles but today we got a stark white one from her. Any reasons?

 

[Cindiloohoo]

May be she's getting close to a molt? They start to lose pigment in their skin, and will their eggs will start to fade too. Maybe that is all it is.

 

[Kittymomma]

One of my barred rocks did that awhile back. She was just finishing up a molt and hasn't done it since so I just chalked it up to a glitch in the system. No health problems or anything with her so I wouldn't worry too much about it.

 

[Tala]

My red sexlink did this once - the two on the right are hers:

What happened was she laid 2 eggs that day, one in the morning and one at night. It was just a glitch. She hasn't pulled that trick since then, and her eggs have only gotten darker!
The dark speckled egg in this pic is ALSO hers!

Never know what you might get

 

[krstms]

My buff orpington just did this yesterday. I was worried but am relieved to hear others say it's no big deal.