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Does a non-uniform egg colour signify anything out of the ordinary? My black rock is healthy as far as I can tell no signs of mites, lice - been through my birds entire bodies checking yesterday - or anything that I can tell... bright eyed, bushy tails etc!
The pointy end of the egg is the usual brown colour, sometimes with a few speckles on - but towards the fat end of the end the colour kind of lightens up and the brown at the very end is much lighter compared to the pointy end. Only noticed it recently, perhaps in the past 3/4 days (eggs are fine all the same).
Diet is layers pellets, and my lawn/veg/whatever else they can get to by ruining my garden
Recently though, they have been eating a lot of worms - would that affect it? I've dug a stump out and they have literally been spending half a day there, over the past 3/4 days pulling worms up and going through the soil I dug out eating them (almost being decapitated by the spade a few times too).... which is why I'm wondering if it is them. The soil I've pulled up is very clay-y, thought perhaps if the worms have this in them and they're eating the worms..it may be down to that?
Can't seem to turn anything up by googling so can only assume its either diet related, or she's lacking in some mineral that produces the colour of the shell?
TIA!
The pointy end of the egg is the usual brown colour, sometimes with a few speckles on - but towards the fat end of the end the colour kind of lightens up and the brown at the very end is much lighter compared to the pointy end. Only noticed it recently, perhaps in the past 3/4 days (eggs are fine all the same).
Diet is layers pellets, and my lawn/veg/whatever else they can get to by ruining my garden
Recently though, they have been eating a lot of worms - would that affect it? I've dug a stump out and they have literally been spending half a day there, over the past 3/4 days pulling worms up and going through the soil I dug out eating them (almost being decapitated by the spade a few times too).... which is why I'm wondering if it is them. The soil I've pulled up is very clay-y, thought perhaps if the worms have this in them and they're eating the worms..it may be down to that?Can't seem to turn anything up by googling so can only assume its either diet related, or she's lacking in some mineral that produces the colour of the shell?
TIA!
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