white egg

  hi all,   had my chooks now for a good few months, and they are laying everyday, went out to check them earlier to find that one had layed a white egg!!!!!!!!!!!  is there any reason for this, 

hi joyful,  they usually lay brown eggs,    peggygate

We have 9 chooks - all of which started laying various bown egggs, then suddenly a white one appeared and still does.  It seemed to coincide with one of the chickens getting badly mauled by a fox, and having skin  ripped off both sides of her back end, she survived but we are not sure if she is laying it.  Could it be stress related? 

The heat can affect them as can the speed of the egg travelling through the egg production passage. Perhaps it didn't stay in the final colouring part very long - the colour is generally laid on the shell at the end (if you get an egg that has just been laid you can sometimes rub the colour off).

Me and the boys have just watched two of our birds in the same nest box ( they have 4 but all want the same one, but a different one each day) Well, we had a "beautiful" view of an egg being laid and lo and behold it was a white egg the first time for my boys, they were mesmerised.  It was not the one who was mauled by the fox, but the one who currently has few feathers.  We also know that she is the mum of two of our chicks, so she presumably she is quite healthy, apart from looking mangey.   So more me mystery solved.  We will have to see if it continues to stay white in the winter too.