Whodunnit? Egg sleuths, solve this mystery!

[MIChickandGuinea]

we have 9 pullets: one white leghorn, two isa brown type hybrids, two black marans, and two “ameri-kinda” hybrids who are all 7 months old... plus one light Brahma and one more ameri-kinda hybrid who are 5.5 months old. We know that all 7 of the older girls are laying, but haven’t had any new egg appearances that would confirm that the littler girls are laying - they’re both old enough of course, but it’s fall and maybe they just aren’t going to start till spring, or maybe their eggs look exactly like someone else’s ... anyway.

In that mix of birds, I THINK that only the white leghorn is capable of laying a white egg, right? But we get one white egg every day, except for two days in the last two weeks when we got TWO large white eggs. Can Miss Maude be laying so prodigiously that she never misses a day, and sometimes does two big eggs on the same day? Or would our light Brahma or ameri-kinda little girls be able to lay a large white egg? I thought Brahma would for sure lay brown, and both of our kindas whose eggs we are sure of lay very small, bullet-shaped eggs, so I wouldn’t think the third and youngest ameri-kinda would lay white or large.

Who is laying the extra white eggs?!

 

[Frazzemrat1]

What are your 'Ameri-Kinda's hybrids of?

Love that name, btw... Ameri-Kinda. hehehe

 

[MIChickandGuinea]

What are your 'Ameri-Kinda's hybrids of?

Love that name, btw... Ameri-Kinda. hehehe

I really don’t know. They were sold as americaunas and aracaunas, but the breed experts on this board said they’re just humble easter-eggers.

 

[Smuvers Farm]

PICS of the birds and eggs.....

 

[MIChickandGuinea]

The chicken photo has the only two chickens whose egg color I don’t know. The feather-footed white chicken is a light Brahma, and it’s my understanding she should lay brown eggs. The little brown lady in the way back of the photo was sold as an americauna, but breed-savvy people on this site have said she’s just a little hybrid Easter-egger.

All of the eggs in the spiral were laid by known suspects. But my surprise extra white eggs have looked absolutely identical to the ones on this spiral. Very large, very round at one end and pointy at the other. I don’t think any of my chickens except for the white leghorn can lay that kind of egg??? Could that Brahma or little brown EE lay that kind of big, white egg?

 

[aart]

The one at 9 o'clock(far left) is your brahma.
My light brahmas always laid very light brown, more like pinkish eggs.
I only see one white egg, at 1 o'clock.
7 & 8 o'clock are from your Ameri-kindas(my coinage-LOL'd at you using it).

 

[MIChickandGuinea]

The one at 9 o'clock(far left) is your brahma.
My light brahmas always laid very light brown, more like pinkish eggs.
I only see one white egg, at 1 o'clock.
7 & 8 o'clock are from your Ameri-kindas(my coinage-LOL'd at you using it).

Aart, your funny ameri-kindas name has amused me since you used it in an answer to me months ago .
And as you’ve said, I would have expected the blue/green eggs from EE type chickens, and I was sure Brahma should lay a brownish egg. So who is laying the extra white eggs??? The only other chicken we have is Perry, in the center of the photo, and his fancy fancy feathers and cock-a-doodles all day long make me preeeetttty sure he’s not laying the extra white eggs
So my sweet little Maude, the lone leghorn in our crew, seems to be quite the impressive egg-maker, right? No other possible suspect?

 

[aart]

So who is laying the extra white eggs???

I only see one white egg in your rack?
Maybe take a pic of the two white eggs you get on the same day?

Some layers occasionally miss the 'spray booth',
brown eggs are white shells covered with brown coating,
green eggs are blue shells covered with brown coating,
that brown coating can vary.

 

[MIChickandGuinea]

Here is a collection of our egg colors. We get browns from the marans and isa browns, and presumably from our Brahma, though I can’t confirm that she has laid yet. The pinker light browns you saw in a previous photo, we are 100% sure came from our smaller black marans, because we have watched her lay them. I know marans are supposed to lay very dark, but ours don’t.
The green ones are from the Easter-eggers and again, I don’t have confirmation that the youngest is laying yet.
The two in the center are white and we have been getting at least one and sometimes two of them every day. You can’t tell them apart by color, shape, or size.
Could a Brahma or Easter-egger lay an egg like those white ones in the center?

 

[MIChickandGuinea]

I only see one white egg in your rack?
Maybe take a pic of the two white eggs you get on the same day?

Some layers occasionally miss the 'spray booth',
brown eggs are white shells covered with brown coating,
green eggs are blue shells covered with brown coating,
that brown coating can vary.

Aart, in the egg spiral photo, if you count from the last egg at the end of the spiral (the brown one at the end), then eggs #4 and #7 are white. It's hard to tell with that bright, glaring sun lighting and our so-green egg spiral. But those are both the same color.

I could have posted a photo of the two white eggs we got yesterday, except that my mad scientist children were testing an egg cannon that my high schooler is making for her physics class, and they seem to have launched a few of my white eggs out into the field :-/