Starlight Green Egger egg color.

[Xemmie]

https://imgur.com/a/Z6jrcau

I ordered 10 SGEs in March directly from Hoovers Hatchery. Only 8 made it to now. They are about 20 weeks old and five have been laying since July 7th.
I was under the assumption it was only a 5% chance to lay brown eggs. Well only 1 of the five is laying green lol. I even have a almost cream colored egg.
1 egg is not pictured it’s a peachy brown.
Even if the remaining 3 chickens that have not laid yet have green eggs that’s 50%.
Has this happened to anyone else with this breed?
I do enjoy the rainbow colors but would like a few more green eggs to go with my ham

 

[Iluveggers]

Just curious if you contacted Hoovers with your concern, and what their response was? One, (even two), brown/cream eggs is one thing, but I agree that 4 out of 8 is too high. I hope the rest are green layers! Do they all look alike? Do your 3 brown layers look different from your green layer?

 

[Xemmie]

Just curious if you contacted Hoovers with your concern, and what their response was? One, (even two), brown/cream eggs is one thing, but I agree that 4 out of 8 is too high. I hope the rest are green layers! Do they all look alike? Do your 3 brown layers look different from your green layer?

No they don’t all look alike. I have 4 that have a lot of red/deep orange feathers and 4 with a lot of white. 3 are the darker (red) birds they are laying dark brown egg that looks mauve, green, and peachy tan.
2 are from the birds with white feathers. There eggs are tan and a dark cream. I’ll try to get pictures of the birds with egg colors.

I did not contact the hatchery. I’m waiting to see what the remaining 3 lay.

 

[Xemmie]

Just curious if you contacted Hoovers with your concern, and what their response was? One, (even two), brown/cream eggs is one thing, but I agree that 4 out of 8 is too high. I hope the rest are green layers! Do they all look alike? Do your 3 brown layers look different from your green layer?

Pictures of chickens + egg color

 

[Moodleroni]

This is BBQ, she's my SGE. and lays tiny little brown eggs. I got her at CAL-Ranch and I believe they get their chicks from Hoover as well

 

[Xemmie]

This is BBQ, she's my SGE. and lays tiny little brown eggs. I got her at CAL-Ranch and I believe they get their chicks from Hoover as well
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She looks just like one of my other hens that hasn’t laid yet. Her name is soup. Maybe she will lay brown as well. I’m hoping green though.

 

[LaFleche]

There seems to be a lot of rather brazen deception going on with all the hatchery mixes and their fancy namegiving.

This is copied from the description found on Hoover's homepage:

"If you are looking for a bird that consistently lays a green egg and will lay a lot of them, all while having a beautiful color pattern, then the Starlight Green Egger™ will be a great addition to your flock!"

 

[leskfish]

https://imgur.com/a/Z6jrcau

I ordered 10 SGEs in March directly from Hoovers Hatchery. Only 8 made it to now. They are about 20 weeks old and five have been laying since July 7th.
I was under the assumption it was only a 5% chance to lay brown eggs. Well only 1 of the five is laying green lol. I even have a almost cream colored egg.
1 egg is not pictured it’s a peachy brown.
Even if the remaining 3 chickens that have not laid yet have green eggs that’s 50%.
Has this happened to anyone else with this breed?
I do enjoy the rainbow colors but would like a few more green eggs to go with my ham

I have two SGE's from Tractor Supply who uses Hoovers and BOTH of them are laying the pinkish brown eggs like you have pictured. The 5% estimate they claim does not seem to be accurate at all. Here are my eggs from my midnight majesty and the SGE's (the very bright dark brown one's are the MM and all the rest are from the two "green" egg layers) I was wondering if they were going to change color later or something since they've only been laying for 3 weeks but it seems they will be laying brown/pink for good. Still delicious though.

 

[leskfish]

This is BBQ, she's my SGE. and lays tiny little brown eggs. I got her at CAL-Ranch and I believe they get their chicks from Hoover as well
View attachment 3592640

Both of my SGE's from Hoovers look exactly like this one and they are laying pinkish brown eggs too.

 

[Xemmie]

I have two SGE's from Tractor Supply who uses Hoovers and BOTH of them are laying the pinkish brown eggs like you have pictured. The 5% estimate they claim does not seem to be accurate at all. Here are my eggs from my midnight majesty and the SGE's (the very bright dark brown one's are the MM and all the rest are from the two "green" egg layers) I was wondering if they were going to change color later or something since they've only been laying for 3 weeks but it seems they will be laying brown/pink for good. Still delicious though.

All 8 of my hens are laying now. I have less than 50% green eggs. 5 are laying various shades of brown and three are laying green. I did try contacting the hatchery. They have not responded.
I really don’t mind all the colors just think they shouldn’t say it’s 95% chance for green when it’s clearly not.