Will a chicken not lay their egg colour, they are supposed to?

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I have 2 pure golden crele legbars.
They are supposed to lay blue eggs.
One does.
The other I'm not sure. They will be 1 beginning of April and given the small size of the one in question I think she just started laying, but it's almost white.

I have a picture of what they should look like, and a picture of what I've been getting.

I at first thought it was my orpington who lays the super soft pink egg, as she is coming back after her winter hiatus, but I found the little egg in the nesting box and my orpington doesn't lay in the box so....
This is the only egg I cant account for, so I suspect it's her, but I'm kinda shocked that the colour isn't "what it's supposed to be"

I'm assuming that she just has a special, weirdo DNA thingy going on.

But I'd love to know what you know or have experienced.

Thanks!

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they have all been wormed recently, and is healthy otherwise. Lots of water, veggies, food, a treat now and then.

Is she just super special
 
I have 2 pure golden crele legbars.
They are supposed to lay blue eggs.
One does.
The other I'm not sure. They will be 1 beginning of April and given the small size of the one in question I think she just started laying, but it's almost white.

I have a picture of what they should look like, and a picture of what I've been getting.

I at first thought it was my orpington who lays the super soft pink egg, as she is coming back after her winter hiatus, but I found the little egg in the nesting box and my orpington doesn't lay in the box, and twice I've gotten them on the same day. I know that can happen but twice in a week seems weird.
This is the only egg I cant account for, so I suspect it's her, but I'm kinda shocked that the colour isn't "what it's supposed to be"

I'm assuming that she just has a special, weirdo DNA thingy going on.

But I'd love to know what you know or have experienced.

Thanks!

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they have all been wormed recently, and is healthy otherwise. Lots of water, veggies, food, a treat now and then.

Is she just super special
 
You're sure she's a pure bred Crested Cream Legbar? If so, she should be laying blue. It's possible she's an Easter Egger/Olive Egger that's looks like a CCL. Even though the Eggers are bred to lay colored eggs, it's not a guarantee because they are mixes.

You can provide a picture of both of your Legbars and we might be able to tell you if she's pure bred or a mix.
 
You're sure she's a pure bred Crested Cream Legbar? If so, she should be laying blue. It's possible she's an Easter Egger/Olive Egger that's looks like a CCL. Even though the Eggers are bred to lay colored eggs, it's not a guarantee because they are mixes.

You can provide a picture of both of your Legbars and we might be able to tell you if she's pure bred or a mix.
These are them. I'm north sure which one had laid the blue egg.
 

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Any chance it’s from a brown or tinted layer and there was a bloom “spray” glitch? 😅 one of my orpingtons who lays a light tan egg, sometimes laid a white egg (missing the brown overspray) when she first started up. Same thing after a molt.
 
Any chance it’s from a brown or tinted layer and there was a bloom “spray” glitch? 😅 one of my orpingtons who lays a light tan egg, sometimes laid a white egg (missing the brown overspray) when she first started up. Same thing after a molt.
See my initial thought was it was from my orpington given the colour.
But then I got 2 in one day, and I was like cool and in my brain it made sense one was smaller.
But then it happened again, and again and now I'm not sure.
These are my orpington eggs.
 

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