Wrong color eggs

[cherig22]

I got my Rhode Island Whites from McMurray, and I expected white eggs. But they are layin light brown eggs.....

Is this because they are hatchery eggs, and there is a prob with the purebred question of hatchery chickens?

Cheri

 

[luvmychicknkids]

I would assume they are supposed to lay brown eggs???

Leghorns lay white eggs no matter what color the chicken is. I assumed RI anything lays brown?

 

[Judy]

http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html

Yes, RIW lay brown eggs.

 

[halo]

I dont see Rhode Island Whites on McMurrays website. Are you sure they came from there?

 

[Marion]

You can determine the color of an egg for an individual chicken by looking at its ears. If you carefully push back the feathers on the sides of a hen's head, you will see the hen's ears. White ears correspond to white eggs. Reddish brown ears correspond with brown eggs. This correlation supposedly holds up for light green and bluish eggs, as well.

 

[Anny]

Rhode Islands lay brown eggs. The white in the name is refering to the color of the hen not the eggs. Sorry

 

[Mahonri]

RIW... = brown eggs!

 

[Mom 2em All]

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except for Silkies!

 

[chickencoop31320]

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except for Silkies!

I was just thinking that

 

[cherig22]

Argggh, I assumed whites layed whites....

(and to tell the truth, I don't like white chickens, I bought them without doing the research)

Now I have big chickens that don't do what I want. But they are part of the flock now and I will just have to live with it.

Cheri