Small Green Egg

[Awestruck]

I found something strange today. I have 2 Americaunas and 4 brown egg layers. They have been laying very well lately. Today, a barred rock and an americauna were in the nest boxes sitting on their eggs. When they left the nest boxes, I found their eggs, plus, a small green egg, a little bit smaller than a golf ball size. The shell was soft and had a dent in it. I really wanted to have a green egg layer, but I have no idea where this egg came from. The chickens were only out for a couple hours today, so, I am not sure that another bird would have come in. I just can't figure this out. Did the green egg comes from one of our hens, or did it comes from something else altogether? And the egg was perfectly green. No blue at all in it. Any ideas of what this egg is all about?

 

[Rose Quartz]

I found something strange today. I have 2 Americaunas and 4 brown egg layers. They have been laying very well lately. Today, a barred rock and an americauna were in the nest boxes sitting on their eggs. When they left the nest boxes, I found their eggs, plus, a small green egg, a little bit smaller than a golf ball size. The shell was soft and had a dent in it. I really wanted to have a green egg layer, but I have no idea where this egg came from. The chickens were only out for a couple hours today, so, I am not sure that another bird would have come in. I just can't figure this out. Did the green egg comes from one of our hens, or did it comes from something else altogether? And the egg was perfectly green. No blue at all in it. Any ideas of what this egg is all about?

how old are your girls?

 

[RWise]

The ameraucana (not americauna) should lay a blue egg unless she is an EE (which if you were told she is "americauna" then she is an EE). Then any colour egg can be had (not from the same bird), I call my EEs rainbow eggers and get blue, green, olive, pink, brown, even the colour of creamed coffee and so on..

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Agree with @RWise One of your Ameraucana isn't an Ameraucana. You definitely have an EE in there.

 

[Awestruck]

The girls are a little over a year old. They have been laying eggs since August or September. I remember the first ones the barred rocks laid. They were brown and looked like bird eggs. But ever since that time, all the eggs looked pretty normal. I know I could get an EE if my rooster (RIR) fertilized one of the Americauna eggs, and we ended up with a hen. That would be cool. But I haven't seen any little chicks around to tell me that has happened! I wish it would happen. But if I let that happen, then I take a chance of getting another rooster. I would get either a rooster or a hen that would lay green eggs!

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Actually, I think if you let your hen sit on fertilized eggs from the RIR, then your probably less likely to get colored eggs. As your hen is already an EE, she may have some chicks that laid brown eggs. My understanding of the genes with the green eggs is that its partially a gene for blue and partially a gene for brown.