Mystery egg color

[iplsmama]

Ha ha...My daughter and I were trying to decide who laid the eggs we got today and we can't figure it out! We have a small brown egg and no one in the coop that lays a small brown egg! I think one of my girls must be a mutt that looks an awful lot like a breed. All of these girls are feed store girls so I guess it could be. We have 4 Easter eggers (3 lay greenish/blue eggs and one lays huge brown eggs), then 1 Sumatra, 1 Spangled Hamburg, 1 Polish, 1 Mystery chicken, solid black with white face and earlobes, and 2 Leghorns. I should be getting mostly white eggs, right?? This is just too weird I think I might have to do some surveillance to figure this out. We thought the small brown egg was TurkeyLegs but then it was determined that she is a Sumatra and they lay white eggs. Things that make you go hmmm??

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

My guess would be that the EE that lays large brown eggs had a small egg that day.

 

[iplsmama]

you would think that except we got two brown eggs today LOL!!

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

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My hens sometimes lay two in one day. I used to have a bantam EE that would lay two eggs in one day, then skip a day, routinely.

 

[jarcoo0153]

It sounds like you might have a White faced black spanish. I have 3 hens and 2 lay white eggs, and one lays a light brown egg, It is kind of creamy looking. Maybe she is the one!?

 

[Mahonri]

Mystery chicken or the odd EE>

 

[iplsmama]

Yeah, I'm suspicious of the mystery chicken, white faced spanish, or whatever. She clearly has white earlobes though, you'd think that means she lays a white egg but I'm thinking she must be a cross.

 

[ChooksChick]

Or a leghorn is a Rock...

 

[iplsmama]

Older post but I think I've figured it out. Some resources list the possibility that Sumatras lay a tinted egg. I believe it must be her as it is a very light brown almost white except the Leghorns' eggs are so white you can tell it is "tinted". I think that is the answer. The white faced Spanish is a much larger hen so I'm pretty sure it is the Sumatra since the egg is small.

 

[iplsmama]

And by the way, that Sumatra hen is one of my best layers!! Who knew??