BillyWhizz
In the Brooder
- 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?
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?