Never seen blue eggs before

This is how we prepare a rainbow omelette?

My father had a duck, and it was laying kind of blue eggs. I think the image is a bit saturated though.

r/natureislit

>Never seen blue eggs before

We get our eggs from a local farm, definitely have been some blue ones

45 would smash then all.

That‘s amazing. Never seen before, thank you.

These eggs must be woke… is that the reason of the most recent ‘egg shortage’?

Yeah, they're in a rainbow. totally woke /s

Had a similar rainbow of eggs, my black copper marans was a liar tho, hers were pink like my black austrolorps.

There's a color named after one!

Araucana crosses - also known as 'Easter Eggers'. Something I'm a lil' jealous over (they aren't here).

People bred them over the years for the colors.

Chicken Skittles?

Rip the crushed snowdrops 🥲

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Lol that’s what I am saying - ‘anything’ rainbow just has to be woke right?

Also I assume I am getting downvotes above because I did not use the /s that you so intelligently did not forget. Sarcasm can be very hard over text!

Hahaha - I assume you are not reading any sarcasm in my text. Thank you for calling me a dumbass regardless of your understanding. I promise you, I mean you no harm.

And if you don’t get the rainbow = woke absolutely silly comparison that American conservative politicians are using, I suggest you check it out. There was a Dolly Parton song that was just banned because it had ‘rainbow’ in the song. Can you believe that? I am still rather shocked by that one.

I feel like the blue and purple eggs should switch spots

I've seen green before

That's what I assumed when reading yours lol. Banning songs because they include the word 'rainbow' smh...

Rainbow eggs. We get them from the farm down the road all the time. They're great.

Did this pic destroy racism or am I confused

I've got a cream legbar that does blue also. It's a type of cross with aruacana though. She's a turd though and always escapes the enclosure. They are known for flying everywhere and digging up your garden etc. 0/10 do not recommend.

Chicken Pride

It’s actually “eggshell white”

Sometimes the same breed can lay diffrent colours. I've noticed the chickens I work with have a range from creams to oranges and light browns

I'd lime to see proof of this.

quaoooooooo great

I used to buy eggs from a local farm whose chickens would always lay brown and deep auburn eggs (like the colors on either end of this photo). I swear, those chickens were on a better diet than I was. Whenever I cracked into one of those vibrant shells, the yolk was no exaggeration blood orange. Like some of the yolks were even so deep they were more red than orange. I miss those eggs, the best I have ever had.

Bring me every color of egg you have.

My neighbors, growing up, kept a bunch of chickens. Guinea hens laid little pale blue green eggs.

/r/artificialselectionislit

In this day and age, sarcasm can’t be assumed, cuz people have the whackiest opinions

Bok Bok.

This is an awesome photo, it's there a high res version?

This sorta sounds like my kind of chicken

Getting tired of propaganda from "big egg".

Eggsactly.

I've not seen the green/brown coloured ones from the left-hand side before, but the rest are just typical eggs in the supermarket. Are they not different colours worldwide?

It's mostly based on diet, not breed.

That said, there is a tendency for some breeds to produce wild-type white eggs, but most commercially kept hens produce brown eggs today. You can make the white ones look blue by controlling the diet the hens have access to, so if you lower the fresh vegetable and insect component (so lower carotenoids) you get blue-ish eggs. And sick hens, but hey, they don't care.

Yes not different breeds as OP says. Just one breed: the easter egger. :)

Don't forget the black eggs that are laid by a purely black chicken that is native to South America I think it is.

Diet affects the shell color too IIRC

Americans just realising all eggs aren’t supposed to be white

They don't lay black eggs, they're usually just the normal boring white. My sister got a few of them and I was disappointed when I found out that the eggs look normal lol (They're called Cemani and are originally from Indonesia btw:))

I wonder what the red egg would do in resident evil

I mean white eggs are also normal

I didn’t say they weren’t?

Easter eggers don’t lay brown, especially not the deep chocolate brown. That’s either marans, Bible elder or one other I can’t think of

You can’t get olive, chocolate and blue from dietary changes in one chicken

Nobody's talking about just one chicken ;)

Easter egger is a generic term used by people who raise chickens for a bird bred with Araucana or Ameraucana to gain the colored egg laying gene. It isn't an actual breed at all. It's just a colloquial term.

Also, Easter Eggers specifically refers to the blue gene, and creates shades from blue to green. Some birds it doesn't take well at all, and they produce barely colored eggs. Others produce a bright brilliant blue.

Other colors, like the browns, reds, and pinks, come from other breeds of chicken like marans. I've even had barred rocks and orpingtons lay browns.

Easter egger though, is the chicken equivalent of a mutt, as long as the mutt contains the blue egg gene.

Oh lol I didn't see the "all" I thought just wrote eggs aren't supposed to be white, my bad

👍🏻

Ayyy I've got a couple CLBs coming next month. Can't wait for them to fuck up my garden too (their older sisters no doubt will show them the way)

This is incorrect.

I have an Oliver Eggers that didn't get the green-gene and so she lays dark brown like a Maran

Pretty sure the stuff they eat is also important for the color. Chickens that only eat peas create very good eggs and the eggs are green.

This is absolutely not true.

This is absolutely false.

Thank you. I couldn't remember where they were from. Probably a weird question but do they all taste the same or can you tell the colour of the shell from the taste? I've only ever had brown so I'm curious. Sorry it's a dumb question 😅

But it is. I buy them almost every week, because most normal eggs taste foul or even like old fish to me. And they are normal Chickens, just fed with peas.

Maybe they are a special breed. They don't look very special, though. I made the connection because all they eat is green. So it seems logical.

🎶 Brown eggs are local eggs, and local eggs are fresh! 🎶

Nah I don't think it's dumb. There is no taste difference it's really just the colour of the shell

Oh cool. That's really interesting, the different colours. They look so pretty altogether like that. Would not have thought blue eggs could come from chickens. Very cool.

Chickens that lay colored eggs include Barred Rock, Rhode Island Red, Welsummer, Maran and Easter Egger hens to name a few.FYI Here is a link :) https://www.hobbyfarms.com/7-chickens-to-raise-for-colorful-eggs-3/

I'm so sorry. She's my most stubborn bird. She also lays the least. Sorry to disappoint. I'd have rather just gotten more Rhode island reds...

So far from disappointed! I love collecting different breeds and different Chicken-alities! So I'm excited to add more stubborn birds. (My 2 most stubborn are a Barred Rock and Oliver)

Be interesting to make a giant picture with them...of a chicken?

Can I make purple omelettes with red and blue eggs? Asking for a friend.

Maybe you are only referring to chickens but, look up robin eggs. They are a beautiful blue.

I do agree!

I have a couple chickens that lay blue eggs

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The purple ones are mad sus tho!