The Diversity of Eggs

We have four hens, all brown egg layers.  As you probably have noticed they give different shapes and sizes.  Up until now, it has been challenging for me to figure out who was laying which eggs.  Today, I had the special moment of having Donna, our Australorp (the black one) lay her egg basically in my hand.  As we have noted they have been laying not in the nesting boxes of our coop but near the door.  Today when I opened the door Donna was sitting there.  She is often trying to hatch our non-fertile eggs by laying on them.  (She'd make a good momma.) I petted her a bit and she stood up revealing the three eggs under her and then.. she dropped her egg for the day, warm and beautiful!

The eggs of the day: the bottom right is the one from Donna.

 Even though she has been one of our larger birds, Donna often lays the smallest eggs.  They are lovely though.  The one in the picture at the upper left corner, I am pretty sure is from Martha.  She and Donna lay the darkest eggs.  The other two are lighter in color and are from our Reds (Cherry Eggers)... the picture does not capture their lightness (they are both the color of the bottom left).