spinmum Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 Hi, just a quick question from a newbie please. My girls have started laying My copper black started yesterday, and layed a lovely dark brown egg. Today the egg is a lighter brown with dark brown speckles (beautiful even if i do say so myself ) Is that usual? Unusual? Thank you Bev p.s. i know it was her as she was in and out of the cube and i checked each time i saw her re-emerge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjp Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 yes my layer's eggs vary from a eally nice shade of brown to a very washed out half and half shades of brown and grey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macfoy Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Yes - all normal. Lovely dark brown layers produce eggs which can be speckled.....beautiful aren't they? The dark brown egg colour will slowly get lighter as the laying season goes on. The colour comes from the birds body and they start to lose colour from their wattles and legs, more obvious in a Barnvelder which has yellow legs, the leg colour slowly fades to cream. Copper Blacks have silver/grey legs. But nevertheless their lovely brown egg colour will slowly fade, only to be restored after the moult. Course it doesn't fade after the first egg A new layer will be just getting egg production into her stride and you may get a few oddments before it settles down to a regular egg you can instantly recognise. Macfoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinmum Posted December 8, 2009 Author Share Posted December 8, 2009 Thanks for your replies, that's really interesting As my mum used to say, "every day's a school day" I'm still a real novice, but am totally hooked Bev Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
