She's laying the wrong color!

[wbruder17]

Hello. I have a young Welsummer that just began laying. I looked it up, because I didn't think I had gotten any white egg layers, and I learned that Welsummers, as I thought, are dark chocolate colored egg layers, yet Raptor is laying white, very small, eggs. I thought it was my bantam laying them at first. What's the deal?

 

[ChooksChick]

You may have a Brown Leghorn- pics?

 

[silkiechicken]

Are you sure you don't have a brown leghorn?

 

[nittanyxi]

It sounds like a brown leghorn. I have both a brown leghorn and a welsummer. they look very similar to each other.

 

[paddock36]

Maybe she didn't

know she was supposed to lay brown eggs.

 

[wbruder17]

They told me she was a Speckled Sussex at the Farm Store, but that is obviously not the case. I guess I'm not sure exactly what she is anymore. She LOOKS like a Welsummer, but maybe not. I was concerned she was a rooster at first, since she didn't look anything like a Speckled Sussex, and had a very predominate comb and waddle. Then I remembered they had been selling Welsummers from the same bin and looked up pictures online and made my next prediction.

 

[silkiechicken]

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Sounds like leghorn to me!

 

[wbruder17]

Do the Leghorns have that yellowish ear area? Raptor has that very predominant ear area that the Leghorns seem to have, where it looks like the Welsummers do not....

 

[Happy Chooks]

Yes, it sounds like you have a brown leghorn. Brown leghorns have white earlobes and Welsummers have red earlobes.

 

[badwolf7914]

I'm having the same problem. My New Hampshire Red just started laying and she has white eggs slightly smaller than the one from my sex-links. She has red ear lobes... I'm so confused.