GracieKatt
Chirping
- Mar 18, 2021
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Ok, so I have only two hens that are laying right now. I know this for a fact. My oldest hen is a tiny silkie who lays small, pointy eggs and she is raising chicks right now and hasn’t laid once since she went broody. My Buff Orpington has always laid these smooth, even pinkish-brown eggs and my other laying hen is a barnyard mix that has always laid these plain old cream/tan color eggs.
Today I collected their eggs and I collected two days before that and two days before that. On all three of these occasions I have collected four eggs (pictured) and on all three occasions I have collected two of the cream/tan eggs, one of the rosy brown eggs, and a fourth mystery egg that is just plain light brown with some fine darker brown speckles, no pinkish tinge, AND the shell of this egg is much weaker than the shells of the other three eggs.
The only explanation I can come up with is that my Orpington has taken to consistently laying an egg of a different color and shell strength approximately every other day. But I feel like that’s kinda far-fetched. Is it?
Photo: the two eggs at the bottom are definitely laid by the young barnyard mix hen. The one at top right is the same egg the Buff Orpington has always laid. The one at top left is the mystery egg which is a slightly different color and totally different shell texture than the one the Orpington always lays.
Today I collected their eggs and I collected two days before that and two days before that. On all three of these occasions I have collected four eggs (pictured) and on all three occasions I have collected two of the cream/tan eggs, one of the rosy brown eggs, and a fourth mystery egg that is just plain light brown with some fine darker brown speckles, no pinkish tinge, AND the shell of this egg is much weaker than the shells of the other three eggs.
The only explanation I can come up with is that my Orpington has taken to consistently laying an egg of a different color and shell strength approximately every other day. But I feel like that’s kinda far-fetched. Is it?
Photo: the two eggs at the bottom are definitely laid by the young barnyard mix hen. The one at top right is the same egg the Buff Orpington has always laid. The one at top left is the mystery egg which is a slightly different color and totally different shell texture than the one the Orpington always lays.
