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[The_eggwards_family]

Today the egg was in the nest!

 

Not as early as yesterday; around 8.30am (an hour later) and the same girl was sitting on it. But it is a lot paler than yesterday. Yesterday was a really dark brown egg, today it is a speckled beige and quite pale so I was wondering if it was the same girl?

 

I have an amber star, a calder ranger and a black rock. I think it was the black rock that layed the brown egg yesterday, and it was her who was sitting on the nest again this morning, even though the egg was pale beige.

 

Will a hen always lay the same colour eggs or can they vary each day?

[Sue]

Hi - Eggs can vary in shell colour. Generally the darkest egg is laid first day, then I think it is about 25/26 hours to the next egg so they get a little later each day. When it is too late to lay that day, the egg is laid the following day, and as it stays in the oviduct longer it often comes out darker, and so on through the cycle. Sometimes if the colour is a bit short it can come out speckled.

 

I am trying to get photos of eggs from each type of hen so I can put more information on my website. So often one sees a written description of the colour of the eggs laid, but rarely backed up by a photo, so if anyone has some photos of their eggs I would love to hear from them

 

All the best

Sue