White earlobes tinted eggs

[peafowl_Lover]

Hi, my white leghorn pullet started laying a few days ago, she has white earlobes but her eggs are tinted. Is this normal will the eggs go white?

 

[Chikenshiken]

Hi, my white leghorn pullet started laying a few days ago, she has white earlobes but her eggs are tinted. Is this normal will the eggs go white?

Is the egg shell tinted or the egg white/yolk itself? Do you have a picture?

 

[MysteryChicken]

Earlobes aren't linked to egg color, but both traits can be bred into the bird so it can seem like it.

A few of my brown layers have white earlobes.

 

[NatJ]

If she has laid several tinted eggs, that is probably the color she will continue to lay.

Earlobe color does not really tell anything about what color eggs a hen will lay. Earlobe color does tell something about what breed the hen is (for example, White Leghorns have white earlobes while White Rocks have red earlobes), and knowing the breed can help predict the egg color (Leghorns lay white, Rocks lay brown.)

She might be a Leghorn that just doesn't lay the right color eggs, or she might be a mix of Leghorn and some other breed (so she could have inherited the white earlobes from the Leghorn, but egg color genes from the other breed.)

 

[peafowl_Lover]

Yes the breeder I got her from said he doesn't think they are purebred because some of his have light grey feathers,

 

[NatJ]

Yes the breeder I got her from said he doesn't think they are purebred because some of his have light grey feathers,

Then that would explain it. Whatever other breed gave the light grey feathers is probably what gave the genes to lay not-quite-white eggs as well.