Egg color

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The egg color that a hen will lay can usually be determined by the color of the ear lobes.

Hens which lay white eggs have unpigmented ear lobes.

Brown-egg-laying hens have pigmented reddish ear lobes.

However, a green egg layer, such as an Easter Egger or an Aracuna, will have the white ears typical of a white egg layer.

Genetics

a Easter Egger with white ear lobes, just like a hen that lays white eggs, however this hen lays green eggs.
a Black Australorp hen with pigmented ear lobes that lays brown eggs.