Wrong colored egg???

[Ajoy1955]

Well one of my pullets layed their first egg today, out of my three, there is a Brown Leghorn , with the white patch on its cheek, a Blue Laced Red Wyandotte, which lays a brown egg, and a Sapphire Olive Egger, which is supposed to lay my olive egg…..well the only pullet that I have seen in the nest box on several occasions has been my SOE, this is the egg I found today..normal egg on left for comparison… please tell me that my BLRW layed this and not my SOE

 

[Kiki]

Who did you buy the olive egger from?

 

[nuthatched]

Not all oes or ees lay pretty pastel eggs. You can put food coloring or lipstick on their vents.

 

[Ajoy1955]

Who did you buy the olive egger from?

From a fella who bought chicks from the Co-op that he works at, and they get their chicks from Ideal Hatchery.. why do ask?

 

[Kiki]

From a fella who bought chicks from the Co-op that he works at, and they get their chicks from Ideal Hatchery.. why do ask?

Because people tell stories to make a dollar. I bet you he didn't sell you what he said he did.
Can you post a few clear pictures of your bird?

 

[Ajoy1955]

Because people tell stories to make a dollar. I bet you he didn't sell you what he said he did.
Can you post a few clear pictures of your bird?

I wasn’t specifically looking for that breed, but loved her tuft of feathers on her head, and he told me she would lay the green egg

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

She looks like she could be laying or close to laying, but so does the Wyandotte in the background, so it's hard to say. Sometimes pullets go into the nests and check them out days or even weeks before they actually start laying, so it's possible that's all she was doing and the egg came from someone else. However, it's also not unheard of for an olive-egger mix like this to just happen not to inherit the blue egg gene and lay brown instead. She does look like what she was advertised as, I don't think anyone intentionally fooled you or anything. Just bad luck. Hopefully it turns out to have been from the Wyandotte and you get your olive egg from this bird.

 

[The Confused Chicken]

Some OEs lay brown eggs. I think the chance is something like 1/16 for F1 crosses, so it's definitely possible.

 

[Ajoy1955]

She looks like she could be laying or close to laying, but so does the Wyandotte in the background, so it's hard to say. Sometimes pullets go into the nests and check them out days or even weeks before they actually start laying, so it's possible that's all she was doing and the egg came from someone else. However, it's also not unheard of for an olive-egger mix like this to just happen not to inherit the blue egg gene and lay brown instead. She does look like what she was advertised as, I don't think anyone intentionally fooled you or anything. Just bad luck. Hopefully it turns out to have been from the Wyandotte and you get your olive egg from this bird.

Here is the Wyandotte! I hope that it was from her! The only reason I got new pullets was to get different colored eggs , than what my Silver Laced lay! I realize this girl lays brown eggs too but I love her color!

 

[Ajoy1955]

I wasn’t specifically looking for that breed, but loved her tuft of feathers on her head, and he told me she would lay the green

Some OEs lay brown eggs. I think the chance is something like 1/16 for F1 crosses, so it's definitely possible.

Naturally I will be the 1/16th lol! That’s okay, she has the sweetest personality!