Surprise blue eggs

BillyWhizz

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Apr 14, 2021
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Hi :) First time post having had 6 hens for around a month.

We purchased our hens described as follows
2 golden speckled (to lay brown eggs)
1 grey speckled (to lay brown eggs)
1 leghorn (white eggs)
1 Devon Blue (blue eggs)
1 devon bronze (dark chestnut eggs)

We got a selection to make it easier to workout who was laying when (in a bit of a nerdy tally chart way)

But the last few days have become a mystery as they have started laying.

We have some large blue eggs which i assumed were from the devon blue, and i was very impressed with their size as her first eggs. But the last 2 days we have had more (albeit smaller... greyer) blue eggs laid next to them.

Is it possible that what we thought was a devon bronze (boxy little black hen) is laying blue eggs also? or the speckled grey?

photo attached showing the eggs from 2 days alongside a shop bought egg.

Thanks for any information anyone can give on surprise blue eggs :)

We are delighted with them but they were unexpected. we have had 1 brown egg and one white egg a day for the last 5 days so i’m ruling out the leghorn and golden speckled?
 

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Where did you get them?
Haven't heard of any of those except Leghorn.
I’m in uk. I’m not sure the golden speckled is their real name.

But i have seen mention of devon blue and devon bronze on a few sites.

Here are some photos. I don’t want to overload the site with photos.
 

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I'm in UK also not really heard names cept leghorn brown with black specks looks like a buff Sussex to me.... Black and white a barred rock.... Not sure on others without closer look. Not a total expert tho xx
 
The Devon bronze is probably supposed to be a marans hybrid, the golden speckled are supposed to be Rhode Island red hybrids, and the grey speckled is supposed to be a barred rock hybrid. Sounds like you got a bunch of types of Easter eggers (aka “Devon blues”) instead.
 
Yes the Devon bronze is supposed to be a marans hybrid i think, Is that likely to also lay blue eggs?

the sandy coloured one is what was sold as a devon blue.

Can easter eggers look like any other hen?
 
Yes the Devon bronze is supposed to be a marans hybrid i think, Is that likely to also lay blue eggs?

the sandy coloured one is what was sold as a devon blue.

Can easter eggers look like any other hen?
Depends on the cross. I’m guessing these are actually legbar hybrids. If the Devon bronze is laying blue/green, she’s not a Devon bronze.
 

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