What the Heck?! My Buff Orpington laid a WHITE egg!!! UPDATE With PICS

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

 

[TesoroSena]

What gives chickens their egg color is color pigmentation. Other things like the color in her legs and her comb use color pigmentation. Sometimes a hen gets particularly stressed, and they just lay a bad egg, a lot of times the color pigmentation fails. She could also have a lack in calcium to cause that. I suggest giving them cottage cheese, my chickens love it and it works every time.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

My lavender orpington laid a bright white egg

Hi, welcome to BYC!

This is a really old thread (2010) so... just letting you know the original posters might not be around here anymore.

All eggs are white underneath with exception to true blue which have their pigment all the way through the shell (simple explanation, not full). Get a load of the video in the following link to see how eggs are formed..

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/common-egg-quality-problems.65923/

New layer hiccups are especially common as the reproductive system comes online and works out it's kinks. Marans eggs are considered their regular shade around the 20th that they lay. Also, color may fade/vary as lay season progresses and even within the beginning verses end of the clutch. Sometimes for example after a day off, the first egg of the next clutch may be darker than the last one was of the previous clutch.