White Earlobes

[RUNuts]

I would say temperature could certainly be the reason. Bring in the cold puts stress on the body, as does laying a lot of large eggs.
Earlobes changing color seems to be stress related. If this is true, she should be fine, especially once she is older and better able to deal with the cold. More body weight helps!

Agree. A few of the chicken's combs, wattles and earlobes will turn pale while molting or before laying eggs. Nothing to worry about unless it stays that way.

 

[NatJ]

A couple of my chickens have white earlobes, does anybody know why this is? They’re about 6 months old, I’m wondering if it could be calcium related.

It looks normal to me.

Some chickens naturally have white earlobes, some naturally have red ones, and some naturally have a mix. The earlobe color only matters if you want to enter the chicken in a show. Otherwise, they are all fine.

(And a few chickens have other earlobe colors, like blue on Silkies or black on Ayam Cemani.)

 

[Ridgerunner]

They've kind of hit my guesses. Unless the person that selects the chickens that get to breed (the breeder) pay attention to certain traits those traits are not as pronounced over generations. Unless they are breeding for a certain purpose (for show or developing a new breed) most people are not going to worry about earlobe color that much. So you wind up with a chicken that is in between by varying degrees, some less red or some less white than the breed is supposed to be.

The comb and watlles of a hen that is laying are usually bright red. If they are not laying the comb and wattles can be pale. By extension that could be why earlobes might be less red at certain times, like when she is molting and not laying.

When we are cold our blood vessels constrict. That way the blood stays deeper in our body so it stays warmer. I could easily envision the earlobes looking whiter than normal if that happens. After all the red color is blood. And those still look really red.

You are supposed to pay attention to changes and anything strange but this is one I'd not worry about as long as she is acting normal.