WHAAAATTTTTT?

[trainman]

OK, I purchased 35 Plymouth Rocks from a hatchery. They are all healthy and doing well and are now 5 1/2 months old and some have started laying. Today I got 15 eggs. Great! However......one was WHITE! All the others are brown and all previous Rocks have laid brown eggs. Pretty bizarre!
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[Kiki]

Pictures of your birds?

 

[ValerieJ]

I think it could just be a first egg. It doesn't always work out perfectly when they are getting the hang of laying eggs.

 

[sourland]

Which of these things is different ? Any of them have white earlobes ?

 

[Kluk-Kluk]

Come on, you didn't want all boring matching eggs, did you?

 

[chickens really]

@rjohns39
He might have the same chickens?

 

[Rammy]

I have some Production Blacks, which look exactly like Plymouths or Barred Rocks, but lay white eggs. Good chance is one or more of that breed was added to your order either by mistake or intentionally if there werent enough Plymouths to fulfill your order. Where did you get yours from?

 

[trainman]

I don't have any pictures of the flock but they are definitely all Plymouth Rocks. They all came from Cackle Hatchery at the same time. No white earlobes. No other breeds. I think valeriej may have the answer as it is probably due to being a first egg. They are just starting to lay. Out of the 31 hens I have gotten 15 eggs a day so if that reasoning is sound I may see more. I've only had brown egg layers in the past and all have only given me brown eggs but anything is possible, I guess.

 

[Ted_Harrell]

yeah California greys look like barred rocks but they lay white eggs and Hollands hens look like barred rocks but I don't know what color eggs they lay...

 

[trainman]

Ted,

You made me do some research as I had never heard of those 2 breeds before. Interesting! Yes, they are remarkably similar to Plymouth Rocks in almost every way. I ordered from Cackle and they don't carry those breeds apparently and according to what I pulled up just now both are extremely rare so I doubt if Cackle would sell them for the price of Rocks IF they had them.

I'm tending to go with valeriej's response that since it was a first egg for my girl it may have some mutant (my words!) shell color pigment.

Thanks for the education on 2 more breeds!