My pullet laid two different colors of eggs

[kathrync]

I have a pullet who just started laying. She is a BCM and EE cross. Her first egg was a teeny tiny “fairy” egg that was dark brown, like a BCM egg. Today, about 6 weeks later, she laid her first full size egg and it was dark green. Is it possible that she will lay different colors of eggs like this going forward? I doubt it, but it would be pretty cool

The green egg in the second picture is hers.

 

[nuthatched]

Hens don't change egg color, there can be a change in hue from bloom but not color. What other breeds do you have?

 

[kathrync]

Hens don't change egg color, there can be a change in hue from bloom but not color. What other breeds do you have?

I don’t have any other breeds that lay eggs this color. Mostly light brown egg layers.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Different colored eggs are possible for a few reasons.
If eggs come in short order, pigment can be used up and only remaining pigment makes its way onto and into the shell.
On very rare occasions, an egg will back up in the plumbing and that egg will get more ingredients applied and another shell surrounding it.
To illustrate what I said in the second sentence is that the outer shell of an egg I saw was medium brown while the inner egg was green/olive. I can only assume the pigment from biliverdin in the bloodstream had been used up on the first shell and only brown remained to be applied.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

That first tiny egg was likely a wind egg that contained no yolk but only albumen.

 

[sybonbon]

To get a green egg you have to start with a Blue egg and then coat it with brown. I don't see this being the same egg.

 

[sybonbon]

I don’t have any other breeds that lay eggs this color. Mostly light brown egg layers.

My old Red Sexlink laid a mini egg like this and she normally lays a light brown egg.

 

[kathrync]

Different colored eggs are possible for a few reasons.
If eggs come in short order, pigment can be used up and only remaining pigment makes its way onto and into the shell.
On very rare occasions, an egg will back up in the plumbing and that egg will get more ingredients applied and another shell surrounding it.
To illustrate what I said in the second sentence is that the outer shell of an egg I saw was medium brown while the inner egg was green/olive. I can only assume the pigment from biliverdin in the bloodstream had been used up on the first shell and only brown remained to be applied.

Hmmmm interesting. Now I wonder if the green egg came from my olive egger. She normally lays eggs that are light green, like in the attached photo. She hasn’t laid anything since last fall. Maybe she laid an egg with extra pigment because she just started back up again? I dunno, but I’m sure the mystery will unfold once all the girls are in full swing again.

 

[ChickNanny13]

Quite sure it came from you OE ... A egg "color" may change in shade due to the bloom but not color. Is it possible the "fairy" egg came from which ever laid the brown egg in the first picture to the right/above the olive colored egg.

 

[aart]

Now I wonder if the green egg came from my olive egger.

Most likely, yes.