Question about egg color...

[rhiannalynn]

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: My boyfriend and I originally purchased four white/yellow chicks around 3 weeks of age. Three were in the same pen at the time of purchase and the fourth in a separate one. I think the fourth was a different breed, but now at 3-ish months all four look the exact same (they look like leghorns). About a month after we bought the four chicks, our neighbor gave us two silkies he got at a flea market. One is black (Tony) and one is grey (Carmela) and he said they are a year old and the black one is a rooster. I am skeptical that he is a rooster because they both look feminine and we haven't heard him crow yet. I have come across a fertilized egg so we have at least one rooster in the coop. Tony does act kind of dominant but he sits on the eggs while the others are roaming the yard and gets angry if you take him out of the coop when he's sitting on the eggs. When we were first given the two chickens, we were getting an egg a day (a brown egg). This continued for some time but just recently we went out to the coop to get the egg and it was green! From then on, all we are getting is green eggs. It seems like we are getting more than one a day. Has the grey hen's eggs changed colors or has she stopped laying and one of the leghorns started?

QUESTION: Can a chickens eggs change from brown to green?

 

[junebuggena]

Pictures of the birds? Leghorns lay white eggs. Your silkies might be mixed breeds. Silkies usually lay small light brown eggs. If the white bird that was separate from the others has any red feathers on the back, wings, or tail; it is a red sexlink rooster.

 

[rhiannalynn]

I will post pictures in the morning. We were getting small light brown eggs, but now only green. Very strange to me!

**Update: I have a picture of the brown eggs. Will still post pictures of the birds in the morning.