Sudden olive egger?

[Leigti]

Which is the blrw? I’m not seeing it on my phone. Maybe you could get a picture tomorrow? I’m thinking she could be the culprit. She’s young. It’s very dark olive. It could be her first egg. She might have a blue egg layer parent and a very dark chocolate brown laying parent and look a bit like a BLRW. I’d really like to see her up close not in a crowd.
Taking pictures of chickens is not easy but so much fun.

The blrw’s are the two white and red ones in the back by the fence. They have both been laying for several months, light brown/pink eggs. I’m thinking the marans or older ee’s.

 

[aart]

I’m thinking the marans or older ee’s

Most likely...takes a blue shell to make a green egg.
Have your EE's been laying blue/green eggs?
Just the one egg or .....?

 

[Cryss]

Chickens can’t change egg color. Blue eggs are particularly genetic. Eggs all start out either white or blue. Each egg will be “spray painted” with a protective coating as it’s being laid. Each bird is limited to one color of coating they produce. It can vary in depth of color as it gets washed out at each seasons end. A green egg, indicative of an Easter Egger, comes from a chicken that lays a blue egg. An olive green egg comes from the same type, a chicken that lays a blue egg. A chicken cannot lay white eggs and later switch to laying blue eggs. It is the color of the protective coating that determines if the egg is blue, green, or olive. Again that coating can only be one color throughout the life of the chicken. Clear coat on blue produces blue eggs. Brown coat produces green eggs. Chocolate coat produces olive eggs. None of the colors can change except for intensity of the coating color. Marans lay white eggs with chocolate coats. Interesting thing about blue eggs is that the shell is blue inside. This means green or olive egg shells will be blue inside also. Have you ever noticed any eggs with blue inside the shell? That would be your culprit although that doesn’t explain the coat. For this reason I believe it will be your youngest bird, that she just started laying.
Hopefully someone with more breed experience can chime in. I can’t seem to call them in cuz this stupid cellphone is acting quirky today.

 

[aart]

Each bird is limited to one color of coating they produce.

There's really only one color of pigment coating, brown..but in various shades.


There are only white and blue shells.
Brown eggs have brown coating on white shells.
Green eggs have brown coating on blue shells.
The brown coating can be very light or very dark, and can vary day to day.
Then the bloom can add another aspect to the egg color.
Pink/purplish eggs are from the bloom on a brown egg.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Chickens can’t change egg color. Blue eggs are particularly genetic. Eggs all start out either white or blue. Each egg will be “spray painted” with a protective coating as it’s being laid. Each bird is limited to one color of coating they produce. It can vary in depth of color as it gets washed out at each seasons end. A green egg, indicative of an Easter Egger, comes from a chicken that lays a blue egg. An olive green egg comes from the same type, a chicken that lays a blue egg. A chicken cannot lay white eggs and later switch to laying blue eggs. It is the color of the protective coating that determines if the egg is blue, green, or olive. Again that coating can only be one color throughout the life of the chicken. Clear coat on blue produces blue eggs. Brown coat produces green eggs. Chocolate coat produces olive eggs. None of the colors can change except for intensity of the coating color. Marans lay white eggs with chocolate coats. Interesting thing about blue eggs is that the shell is blue inside. This means green or olive egg shells will be blue inside also. Have you ever noticed any eggs with blue inside the shell? That would be your culprit although that doesn’t explain the coat. For this reason I believe it will be your youngest bird, that she just started laying.
Hopefully someone with more breed experience can chime in. I can’t seem to call them in cuz this stupid cellphone is acting quirky today.

Who would you suggest, I can try calling them if it would help.

ETA: N/M, I see @aart has arrived to help!

 

[Leigti]

So it must be the largest easter egger ss she lays a large blue/green egg. She is three years old. She has layed several eggs this year but this is the first ever of this color. Nothibg even close before.

 

[Cryss]

So it must be the largest easter egger ss she lays a large blue/green egg. She is three years old. She has layed several eggs this year but this is the first ever of this color. Nothibg even close before.

Is this her first year laying eggs? That’s kind of late in life to start to lay! If this isn’t her first year then I’d lean towards no it’s not her egg. Another thought; First several eggs of the year will be the darkest in color. At the end of the egg season year they will be paler. Perhaps your EE is using up all of her early season color now? I’d be curious if later in the year, perhaps even very soon, her eggs turn pale, more blue than green. How often does she lay? Very interesting subject.

 

[SurferchickinSB]

So it must be the largest easter egger ss she lays a large blue/green egg. She is three years old. She has layed several eggs this year but this is the first ever of this color. Nothibg even close before.

Well, maybe it’s just an anomaly and you will not get any more of those types of eggs. Every now and then you do get an odd egg. I have never seen anything like that before

 

[aart]

So it must be the largest easter egger ss she lays a large blue/green egg. She is three years old. She has layed several eggs this year but this is the first ever of this color. Nothibg even close before.

Is she just coming back into lay after her molt and winter break?

 

[Leigti]

Is she just coming back into lay after her molt and winter break?

She has laid several eggs the last few weeks.