eggs

[serenity]

I have been trying to work out which of my girls are laying which eggs.

We have a leghorn, rir, light sussex, polish, silkie and a bramah. Here are my girls and a selection of eggs collected yesterday. The dark one on the end is the first of it's kind (my girls are a reaching pol now) and is only an inch long I have used a web site from another thread to try to work out who might have laid this one but am at a loss.

http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenders...ks/chooks.html


Are the first eggs sometimes small?

[TPeers]

Try looking at the ears - a white ear is supposed to mean a white egg!

As to the rest, perfect poultry has several pages of hens plus the eggs they lay, you might be able to match them up!

Good luck, I've just been told that they can change their egg colour!

Terry

[Squirrel]

I know that RIR, light sussex lay brownish eggs! First eggs are usually small until the insides get used to laying eggs. The eggs will change colour and get lighter the more the hens lay.

Leghorn might be a white egg not sure (don't keep them too flighty for me) and not a clue about polish, silkie or brahma. Would not be surprised if the brahma lays a small egg. The polish is a bantam so would be small, silkies don't lay very big eggs I don't think Again speaking under correction there!

[serenity]

I was told the leghorns are flighty too but daisy seems white happy to freerange without trying to escape. Doesn't like being handles though. She is the layer of the white eggs of that I am sure as I caught her singing in the nest box with a very warm white egg beneath her

[chickenjane]

I'm a little bit rusty on egg colours but heregoes.
1.the white egg was laid by the leghorn.As others have said before almost with out exception hens with white ears lay white eggs.
2.the RIR & sussex lay tinted eggs so didn't lay the dark one.
But mymemory says that nor did the silkie or brama-they alo lay tinted eggs.
(the darkest eg layers are Marans,with welsumer & barnvelder next)

sorry i can't be more help.the smalldark egg has got me I'm afraid.
Are you sure about the breeds-there was't a mix up at selection time?
Polands I know nothing about.

[Birdie Wife]

Have you cracked the small egg to find out if there is a yolk inside? If not, it's a sort of abnormal one, a tiny egg that POL birds sometimes lay when they're warming up to proper eggs.

[Squirrel]

Tiny eggs like that are usually called wind or witches eggs!