Sandwitch
Chirping
- Oct 27, 2022
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Hi!
Today I need some help solving the mystery of a second blue egg…..
We have cameras set up to help us identify who’s laying what which should make things easy right? Wrong… We still have a couple egg mysteries on our hands…
Our chickens are from hoovers hatchery (the colored egg assortment) they didn’t tell us what we actually got just what was possible. We in theory have three hens laying and three not. They are all about 6 months old.
Right now our first hen who laid is Misty and hers are blueish (which is fitting since we believe she’s a prairie bluebell egger).
Goldie and Goose we are also almost positive have started laying. They lay green eggs (they are probably an olive Egger and a starlight green egger) every once in awhile.
Now here’s where it starts to get a bit tricky. The other day we got two blue eggs. Which was strange…. So we figured we forgot to check the compartment thing meaning it was a couple days old from one of the few days Misty didn’t lay.
Except today we also got two blue eggs.
Which leaves Widow…. The thing is we were pretty sure she was some type of maran. Most likely a French black copper maran (which was an option from the colored assortment). We did see Widow today on the cams sitting in one of the nesting boxes where we later found a blue egg. So our first thought was “Huh weird she must be sitting on Misty’s egg” since Widow should lay chocolate brown looking eggs. But then we found another blue egg in the coop exactly where we had seen Misty on cams digging a nest to sit in for awhile (we took the straw from the nesting box and so shes started laying elsewhere the past two days in protest lol). Now theoretically on the cam we did see one of the Easter eggers over by Misty’s hole but not for long enough and unless the camera just didn’t start recording even with a new chicken arriving and leaving It’s just not likely. Goldie at one point did go into the nesting box where we found a blue egg however we don’t think she laid today since we didn’t get any green eggs. She just ironically went into each nesting box to sit in (maybe to test?). Including the nesting box Widow was in which she funnily enough did with Widow already occupying it. Kinda like a bunk bed lol.
So my current main theory right now is that Widow may actually be some other breed of chicken… but as you can likely tell from my rambling I’m pretty stumped on what’s happening.
TL;DR basically what breed is this chicken and did this chicken lay this egg.
The Egg of Question:
The Main Suspect:
^An extra older photo of Widow to show off her beautiful colors.
^Here’s the color variety of eggs we’ve been receiving
^Here’s a more recent pic with albeit worse lighting
Today I need some help solving the mystery of a second blue egg…..
We have cameras set up to help us identify who’s laying what which should make things easy right? Wrong… We still have a couple egg mysteries on our hands…
Our chickens are from hoovers hatchery (the colored egg assortment) they didn’t tell us what we actually got just what was possible. We in theory have three hens laying and three not. They are all about 6 months old.
Right now our first hen who laid is Misty and hers are blueish (which is fitting since we believe she’s a prairie bluebell egger).
Goldie and Goose we are also almost positive have started laying. They lay green eggs (they are probably an olive Egger and a starlight green egger) every once in awhile.
Now here’s where it starts to get a bit tricky. The other day we got two blue eggs. Which was strange…. So we figured we forgot to check the compartment thing meaning it was a couple days old from one of the few days Misty didn’t lay.
Except today we also got two blue eggs.
Which leaves Widow…. The thing is we were pretty sure she was some type of maran. Most likely a French black copper maran (which was an option from the colored assortment). We did see Widow today on the cams sitting in one of the nesting boxes where we later found a blue egg. So our first thought was “Huh weird she must be sitting on Misty’s egg” since Widow should lay chocolate brown looking eggs. But then we found another blue egg in the coop exactly where we had seen Misty on cams digging a nest to sit in for awhile (we took the straw from the nesting box and so shes started laying elsewhere the past two days in protest lol). Now theoretically on the cam we did see one of the Easter eggers over by Misty’s hole but not for long enough and unless the camera just didn’t start recording even with a new chicken arriving and leaving It’s just not likely. Goldie at one point did go into the nesting box where we found a blue egg however we don’t think she laid today since we didn’t get any green eggs. She just ironically went into each nesting box to sit in (maybe to test?). Including the nesting box Widow was in which she funnily enough did with Widow already occupying it. Kinda like a bunk bed lol.
So my current main theory right now is that Widow may actually be some other breed of chicken… but as you can likely tell from my rambling I’m pretty stumped on what’s happening.
TL;DR basically what breed is this chicken and did this chicken lay this egg.
The Egg of Question:
The Main Suspect:
^An extra older photo of Widow to show off her beautiful colors.
^Here’s the color variety of eggs we’ve been receiving
^Here’s a more recent pic with albeit worse lighting
