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what colour are they and sizes we have 2 but not laying yet. but had a big egg this morning, im not sure if its my buff very similar colour as hers but a big egg for her? no crouching eyt from my rhodes eldest is about 26 weeks youngest is 20 weeks :lol: my hubby have a cant agree whos it is , buff came out singing her tune but she will even if it aint her egg :lol: when my little bantam lays hers she sings bantam does nothing

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Milly, my Rhode Island Red, lays mid-brown eggs like this (the darkest shade):

 

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As for sizes, her average size is about 70g (but she laid a whopper 93g this morning :shock:). She has laid for 34 days without a break up to today :D .

 

wow what a nice collection ill post one of the one i got it was 71g but nto as brown as u mention rhode red

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Milly, my Rhode Island Red, lays mid-brown eggs like this (the darkest shade):

 

2299205709_ccd08e47e1.jpg

 

As for sizes, her average size is about 70g (but she laid a whopper 93g this morning :shock:). She has laid for 34 days without a break up to today :D .

so pretty. i have white cream and brown but want green/blue.

and 93g!? yet the brown ones all look smallish next to the greenish one.

are the smaller blue eggs from the same bird as the greener one then?

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Hi Debbie, just to confuse matters ( :lol: ) Margot ( my R.I.R ) lays eggs very similar to the pic you posted, they are a reasonable size - small/medium and I'd best describe them as beige with a very slight pinky tint - they are also shiny, though that might just be margot !

They certainly aren't as dark as the ones ANH posted, though I'm sure there's alot of variation in colour within the breed. :?

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yet the brown ones all look smallish next to the greenish one.

are the smaller blue eggs from the same bird as the greener one then?

The "smaller blue eggs" are actually green, it's just that the "greener one" is the 93g freak egg (named by my boys :roll: ) - her eggs all used to be that olivey green colour but are all the paler bluey green colour now (which I much prefer :wink: ).

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Apparantly the reason egg shells change colour is that the pigment gradually "runs down". usually they stop laying for a bit, eg, when moulting or whatever, and then you'll be back to "full strength colour" again (assuming there's nothing missing from the diet). Doesn't help you tell whose laying, but I think it's really interesting anyway!

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