Welsummer layed a white egg??!

[Painted Calls]

In the USA, the American Poultry Association only recognizes one color of Welsummer, and that's the only variety the hatcheries sell. You hen is not that color.

I notice that a bunch of the people commenting are in the US, but if you are somewhere else you may have access to Welsummers in other colors. Or if you are in the US, maybe the breeder is working with non-standard colors (not recognized by the APA.)

Ahhhh this makes much more sense. I didn't get the impression they weren't in the US. Most of the time I catch on. This time it totally slipped my mind.

 

[NorthwoodsChick]

The egg in question looks chalky, heavy bloom? Is she well?

 

[aart]

The egg in question looks chalky, heavy bloom?

I was wondering the same.

Keep in mind that all Wellies lay white egg shells, covered with heavy brown coating.
The very basics of egg color:
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 usually from the bloom on a brown egg.

I'm in Australia

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[Ridgerunner]

Like NatJ and Aart kind of said, the process is that a hen produces a white or blue shelled egg, then the brown pigment is laid on in the last 30 minutes or so that it is in the shell gland before laying. If you open her other eggs and remove the membrane you can see the white color on the inside of the shell even if the outside is very dark. If the hen lays the egg before all or even any of that brown pigment is added the egg can be white or a much lighter brown than normal.

Some eggs are laid early. It doesn't happen that often but it happens. Maybe the hen was stressed or frightened. Maybe she just had an oops. I think we are all entitled to an occasional oops as long as it's not habit-forming. That does not change any genetics, it was just laid early.

Different countries have different standards for what constitutes a certain breed. That can be more than just different approved colors/patterns. Not all breeders are breeding to their country's SOP either. Some are just having fun. Some may be trying to add a specific color to their country's approved color, in which they are following their country's SOP except for color/pattern. Talking about breeds with breeders can be kind of tricky, even before you start crossing international boundaries.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Welsummer's inkblots can go wacky- it is a day to day thing.

 

[Chicken poppy]

It's never failed for me before, I've even put a white and yellow under a hen and they've never even grew, only the orange and red, so I'm just judging from experience that's obviously not as accurate as I thought

Oh, maybe i saw it differently then.

Im sure its very accurate though, it would be a good way to judge a majority of eggs.

 

[Stevan]

Oh, maybe i saw it differently then.

Im sure its very accurate though, it would be a good way to judge a majority of eggs.

Maybe if u try with only red ones, the only orange ones I get are the green or blue eggs because they look different on the inside so the colour is off a bit. It just varies between egg shells.

 

[aart]

It's simple really, if you put a light to the egg in a dark room it shows the inside of the egg, if the egg is white or yellow inside it won't hatch, if it's orange or red then it's fertilized

I have never heard of this....and never seen it in the dozens of eggs candled as I put them in the incubator. Oh, and, the majority of those were fertile and developed.

 

[Chicken poppy]

I have never heard of this....and never seen it in the dozens of eggs candled as I put them in the incubator. Oh, and, the majority of those were fertile and developed.

Ive never heard of it before either. I don’t hatch a lot of eggs, but ive hatched a few good sized batches, and it could be because i didn’t pay attention to it, but i haven’t seen it either.

 

[Stevan]

I have never heard of this....and never seen it in the dozens of eggs candled as I put them in the incubator. Oh, and, the majority of those were fertile and developed.

I've never heard of it before, I just found out about it when we were starting to hatch eggs about 5 years ago, I've been using it ever since. White and yellow insides have never hatched for me before