Blue Copper Maran is laying almost white eggs?

[Motheroffowl]

My 3 blue copper marans have been laying brown eggs for the last 8ish weeks - and now 2 days in a row I have found an almost white egg. I thought that it was definitely one of my 17 week old EEs but the camera in the coop shows no signs of them laying in there, just the marans. Should I be worried that’s something’s wrong, does this happen for various reasons, or is this just poor egg color quality in a hen?

 

[Motheroffowl]

Here is a picture of the egg from today. It is oddly shaped.
The other picture shows our eggs that we’ve been getting from them. We’ve been steadily getting 2-3 a day and I’m 100% sure that all 3 of the marans were producing these.

 

[Loving my girls]

That’s just weird !

So, if I get this right, she was laying brown eggs and is now laying light creamy coloured eggs ?

 

[Mrs. K]

You get what you get. Eggs are not perfect. It will be perfectly fine to eat, and really there is nothing you can do to influence it.

 

[Loving my girls]

I have Never heard of anything like this before, has anyone else ?

How does this happen ?
Why does this happen ?

 

[Mrs. K]

Egg color is genetic - I would suspect not as pure of breed as the OP thinks. Sometimes they mix breeds to get a better feather color - really breeding for traits is harder than one would think. You get the leg color right, but the tail is the wrong color, or you get a good body shape, but too light of egg shells.

If one is perfecting a breed, you have a lot of failures. Just keep picking the best, and letting go of the rest.

Mrs K

 

[Loving my girls]

Egg color is genetic - I would suspect not as pure of breed as the OP thinks. Sometimes they mix breeds to get a better feather color - really breeding for traits is harder than one would think. You get the leg color right, but the tail is the wrong color, or you get a good body shape, but too light of egg shells.

If one is perfecting a breed, you have a lot of failures. Just keep picking the best, and letting go of the rest.

Mrs K

Interesting thank you

 

[Motheroffowl]

Egg color is genetic - I would suspect not as pure of breed as the OP thinks. Sometimes they mix breeds to get a better feather color - really breeding for traits is harder than one would think. You get the leg color right, but the tail is the wrong color, or you get a good body shape, but too light of egg shells.

If one is perfecting a breed, you have a lot of failures. Just keep picking the best, and letting go of the rest.

Mrs K

You get what you get. Eggs are not perfect. It will be perfectly fine to eat, and really there is nothing you can do to influence it.

I believe my mother picked these up from Wilco and that’s all I know about where they came from - we definitely weren’t expecting/wanting pure breeds or anything specific, just eggs

I just thought the color change from her previous eggs was drastic and worth sharing !

 

[Motheroffowl]

That’s just weird !

So, if I get this right, she was laying brown eggs and is now laying light creamy coloured eggs ?

Correct.

 

[The Moonshiner]

It does happen.
Egg shells are genetically either white or blue.
Then there's several genes responsible for putting the brown coating on top. Several different genes hence the many shades of brown or green eggs.
Sometimes with those genes they get a glitch in the system which can change the shade. It's very common for hens to lay their darkest eggs in the spring when their laying picks up then lighter towards the fall after many months of steady laying.
No way of knowing what caused her glitch or when it will reset itself.
I wouldn't worry about her if there's no other signs of something being wrong.