Mystery First "White" Egg***Problem Solved Post #8

[hangin'witthepeeps]

I have 2 red sex link which lay a brown egg every day. One of my three Barred Rocks lays a tan egg every day. Saturday I got a white egg. Now in this pen which I left the door open so they could scratch around in the big run but then get back inside to the water and nest box I have 2 RSL, 3 BR, and 1 SLW which are 22 weeks and 1 Polish/Cuckoo Maran and 1 Polish/Welsummer which are 14 weeks old. Who would lay a white egg? I know that Polish lay a white egg but these girls are 14 weeks old and they have NO combs or wattles. It's a serious case of who dunnit? Can a BR or SLW lay a white egg? It was snow white.

 

[Firework]

I think my SLW s lay white eggs, but I am not sure.

 

[wildorchid053]

i thought slw were brown egg layers?

 

[Sillystunt]

do you have ducks? It has to be the blrw's~ Any got white earlopes, it helps but doesn't always hold true~

 

[Cockadoodlezoo]

My SLW's lay brown eggs

 

[Sillystunt]

It's gotta be the polish~

 

[hangin'witthepeeps]

No ducks. My SLW has white earlobes. My husband saw one of the BR in there. She does not have the same body shape as the other BR. She is small like a bantam and has the upright tail like some bantams I have seen. My 14 week old mixed polish have combs similar to the EE I have seen on here that have started to lay eggs. It is really flush with the beak but really red. Can they lay early? 14 weeks?

 

[hangin'witthepeeps]

Found the answer. I looked at the earlobes and one of by Barred Rocks is a Barred Leghorn...

Caught her in the nest and she laid the white egg.

 

[sunket77]

ha! good investigating! she kind of has a different body that a BR