Strange egg??

[mandyp]

Look at your white hens earlobes compared to the hatchery pic you posted. Your hen has red lobes.

 

[mandyp]

Rocks have real nice personalities. I love mine. Very sweet birds.

 

[Cavendish Chickens]

So why would miss Mable (the light brown leghorn) be laying brown eggs too? She is a leghorn for definite, and her eggs are brown. She was the first to lay and has laid the most. I think Gloria has only laid a total of ... possibly 2 or 3. I've heard roo's play a part in egg color, and now I'm being told different. I am so lost and confused.....

 

[Kittymomma]

Roos can play a part in egg color geneticaly, but they won't make a difference in the color of the eggs layed by the hens they're mating, just in the color layed by any pullets that they sire. Can you post a picture of your brown leghorn? Leghorns are egg laying machines, but I think the white rocks are lots prettier and have nicer (not so flighty) personalities too.

ETA: It's ok if your lost and confused. You've come to the right place, many of us are lost and confused too, but we help each other out.

 

[Cavendish Chickens]

There's a pic of her in my initial post. She's very pretty and very petite. Smaller than the white one, who is smaller than the roo... but not by much these days.

 

[Tala]

I had a pullet that laid bloody eggs for about a month!!! I thought occasional popped blood vessel was normal, but every day for a while?

Eh, we just washed them off and eat as normal. She eventually got over it

 

[mandyp]

Could be that the brown eggs are just from the White Rock. And the white one could be the Leghorn's first. My hens will go & set on an egg they didn't lay. maybe you just saw her setting on it & it wasn't her egg.